Nautical Twilight

Tori Amos · Night Of Hunters [2011]

As the day gave way to Nautical Twilight

I turned my back on the force of which I knew

I abandoned it, rupturing a delicate balance

When I left my world for his.



Day after day, as my city fades

And is swallowed by his sea

And She is boundless

Even breaking on the beach



Every alchemist knows fusion and fission

Can unify or drive a force to split



He has been possessed to drink of the spices

From the east By his liquid mistress

Which then pushed me into the lair of Uranium

She divides time between Greed and his twin Tyranny



Day after day, cities are betrayed

And the earthy sons lay their blame

And She is boundless

But by then she has been frayed



As the night gives way to Nautical Dawn

I can see I must activate the force of which I am made