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not the red baron
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agent orange
Gotta tell you what I heard
from agent orange
Mister Suntan
Mister Happy Man
Mister I know the girls on all the world tours
Mister agent, yeah
he's my favorite
and they don't understand
he's got palm oil fans
yes, he's down and there and everywhere
he's getting an A to Z
an underwater city
where she swims and swims
Bosendorfer and vocal - Tori Amos
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"There's one called agent orange. Naturally, if
we're talking about the boy/girl matrix, there's going to
be a war zone at some point in our story. It's kind of been
a war zone from early on in the record. As the record
goes on - and on and on and on [Laughs] - the vulnerability
starts coming. Then you start sleeping with one of the
lieutenants from the other side because you ended up at a
country village and you forgot that you were on different
sides. You know how it is when war begins: The strangest,
craziest things begin to happen. That's when we start
moving into something else with that break on the record after
jupiter with
amsterdam, with
talula.
Now we're in the South - that whole smell and taste. And we
go into agent orange. If we're gonna have a war, we
have to bring warfare in. I decided to make him a
bodybuilder because that memory has to transmute also - the
skin. To become like tango, the idea of Tang, or the idea
of Orangina, an Orange muscle secret agent who we love ...
That song, agent orange, is the one o'clock cabaret
moment, where you've had a couple of Amarettos on the
rocks, and there's just a sadness. But you know that
sadness when you know your relationship is over and you're
still alive? You know you're not dead. You've got all your
body parts. You're all there. You've got a date. He's got a
new love. [Long dreamy pause.] And you go on with it."
"With agent orange, I was hoping you could see this
orange-bodied muscle man, and give yourself a giggle so
that we'd transform this being from a mutilated skin person to Orangina."
not the red baron is the moment of
compassion for all the men on the record. It's where I
could see their planes crashing, I could see that they
have a side too. And if their planes would crash I started to gain compassion for their side of it. But I'm still
acknowledging the war with agent orange, the idea of
the war."
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doughnut song
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