"I was inspired by Ju?rez on the road. We were by the border and I was
dragged out of the bunk. The song was grabbing me by the throat, saying
you have to sing the song. It was just clear that the voices were calling me;
the desert was obviously the only thing that heard her last breath, and
everything started coming after that."
From "Death in Mexican desert haunted, inspired Tori Amos", Charlotte
Observer, September 17 1999, by Lindsey Henry.
"I read an article about several hundred women in Ju?rez, Mexico, who
had been taken out to the desert and brutally raped and murdered. When
they didn't come home, their brothers would go and look for them, and
many times they'd find nothing. Sometimes they'd find a hair barette or a
sock or something they knew was their sister's. The authorities haven't
really done anything about it... they get into this serial-killer theory. I
mean, how much serial can one man indulge in? So as the song started to
develop, I really began taking the voice of the desert, singing in that
erspective."
From Alternative Press, October 1999.
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