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Rattlesnakes - Tori Amos

Words by Neil Clark and Lloyd Cole, Music by Tori Amos

This seems to me to be a good driving song. Especially the part about Jodie playing with the traffic police. So long as she's willing to pay the ticket, if she gets one. *smiles* I happen to believe she's right, though. A girl does need a gun these days, on account of all the rattlesnakes.

Jodie wears a hat although it hasn't rained for six days
                           She says a girl needs a gun these days
                           Hey, on account of all the rattlesnakes.
                           
She looks like Eve Marie-Saint in On the Waterfront
                           She reads Simone de Beauvoir in her American circumstance
                           
She's less than sure if her heart has come to stay in San Jose
                           And her neverborn child still haunts her
                           As she speeds down the freeway
                           As she tries her luck with the traffic police
                           Out of boredom more than spite
                           She never finds no trouble, she tries too hard
                           She's oblivious despite herself
                           
She looks like Eve Marie Saint in On the Waterfront
                           She says all she needs is therapy, yeah
                           All you need is, 
Love is all you need
                           
Jodie never sleeps 'cause there are always needles in the hay
                           She says that a girl needs a gun these days
                           Hey, on account of all the rattlesnakes
                           
She looks like Eve Marie Saint in On the Waterfront
                           As she reads Simone de Beauvoir in her American circumstance
                           Her heart, heart's like crazy paving
                           Upside down and back to front
                           She says "Ooh, it's so hard to love
                           When love was your great disappointment."

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