Best Morbid Tunes

It's a toss up between Precious Things and Blood Roses by Tori Amos. I'm going to give Precious Things the prize as most morbid because the piano playing is psychotic and the lyrics are angsty and subversive. Kinda makes me squirm. There are only so many times I can listen to this one in a day. I love the cracking of the whip toward the beginning.

Both are rockin' tunes.

Precious Things
from Little Earthquakes

So I ran faster
but it caught me here
yes my loyalties turned
like my ankle
in the seventh grade
running after Billy
running after the rain

these precious things
let them bleed
let them wash away
these precious things
let them break their hold over me

He said you're really an ugly girl
but I like the way you play
and I died
but I thanked him
can you believe that sick sick
holding on to his picture
dressing up every day
I wanna smash the faces
of those beautiful boys
those Christian boys
so you can make me come
that doesn't make you Jesus

these precious things
let them bleed
let them wash away
these precious things
let them break their hold over me

I remember
yes in my peach party dress
no one dared
no one cared
to tell me where the pretty girls are
those demigods
with their nine inch nails
and little fascist panties
tucked inside the
heart of every nice girl

these precious things
let them bleed
let them wash away
these precious things
let them break
let them wash away
these these precious things
let them bleed now
let them wash away
these these precious things
let them break
their hold over me

precious

precious

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