Jammaica Inn

Can you patch my jeans Peggy Ann
–just a little stitch to mend the hole
he has torn if you can
Maybe I got too set in my way
she says she reminds him of me when we first met in those early days…
The sexiest thing is trust
I wake up to find the pirates have come
tying up along your coast how was I to know the pirates have come
between Rebecca’s beneath your firmaments I have worshipped in the Jamaica Inn
With the gales my little boat was tossed
how was I to know that you’d sent her with a lantern to bring me in
“Are you positive this is a friend?”The captain grimaced,
“Those are cliffs of rock ahead
if I’m not mistaken.”


Tori Amos, “The Beekeeper”, 2004