My instrumental cover of General Joy!
From Hereinmyhead.com:
"The Desert Garden is very much about the crossroads. It's a place where you must make choices, grave choices. This is where are garden of sensuality differs from the Garden of Eden because in a place where the creator is the feminine scribe telling the story, the bard, in our book of genesis, in our 'In the beginning' we as women were encouraged to eat from the tree of knowledge because that is how we could help our pride and our tribe and if we don't then will would be subservient and unequal to the male and therefore cannot help him and cannot serve the pride. As a songwriter and someone who chronicles time, um, I have to feel the pulse of what is current. I was able to include General Joy on the record because I wrote it, um, in July 2004 and recorded it and it was relevant then and it is relevant again now. We are still at war, as of this taping and General Joy is very much a current figure. Or not because there are not a lot of Generals that we would call General Joy and that is the point. General Joy has lost his boys and they have been left behind, he needs a solder girl now that liberty has been gagged."
-- Tori; The Beekeeper Limited Edition Bonus DVD
From Yessaid.com:
In August 2001, Tori performed a lullaby for her daughter, Natashya, on Radio 3 in Poland. The lullaby had lyrics that are similar to some in General Joy, which was recorded 3 years later.
It was on my way to Santiago
when I ran into a dark beauty
she said, I heard the news all about your friend
but it's your turn now to spend some time with me and
Sorrow has the sweetest little laugh and
Sorrow is a pretty good friend to have, she said
take off my blue dress and give it to Happiness
it matches the color of her eyes at midnight
said, it matches the color of her eyes
it matches the color of her eyes
at midnight
