General Info

written by Tori Amos

This song was actually an impro Tori did between two takes in the studio. Eric Rosse told Keyboard magazine in September 1992: “One of the b-side cuts came together on the spur of the moment. It was a tune called ’Thoughts’ and she wrote it as the tape was running, literally. We were getting sounds while she was doodling on the piano and I said, ‘What’s that?’ So we just hit record and she wrote it in one pass.”

Tori also explained in the Little Earthquakes songbook that she didn’t know Eric had recorded her improv : “’Girl’ was being recorded and I couldn’t get a take. I was freaking out. Eric was in the booth playing air ball encouraging me to take a ten minute. Glued on the bench, I started this thing coming from nowhere singing nonsense into the mic. When I finished, Eric said, ‘It’s a take.’ I said, ‘What?’ – he had left the machine running.”