Spark

Amos wrote "Spark" after suffering a miscarriage. She discussed the song in an article from Q magazine in May 1998. “Y'know, once you've felt life in your body, you can't go back to having been a woman that's never carried life. The other thing is feeling something dying inside you and you're still alive. Obviously when it was happening, it was already over, but in my mind, you don't know that it's over yet. You're doing anything, thinking, 'Oh God, maybe if I put a cork up myself, maybe it'll keep this little life in.' That's why in 'Spark', I say, 'She's convinced she could hold back a glacier/But she couldn't keep baby alive.' You just start going insane. There's nothing you can do, so so you surrender and then... start again.”

[Verse 1] She's addicted to nicotine patches She's addicted to nicotine patches She's afraid of the light in the dark 6:58 are you sure where my spark is? Here, here, here [Verse 2] She's convinced she could hold back a glacier (Between cotton balls and xylophones) But she couldn't keep baby alive (I'm getting old) Doubting if there's a woman in there somewhere Here, here, here [Chorus] You say you don't want it, again and again But you don't, don't really mean it You say you don't want it, the circus we're in But you don't, don't really mean it You don't, don't really mean it [Verse 3] If the divine master's plan is perfection (Swing low) Maybe next I'll give Judas a try (Swing low, sweet chariot) Trusting my soul to the ice cream assassin Here, here, here [Chorus] You say you don't want it, again and again But you don't, don't really mean it You say you don't want it, the circus we're in But you don't, don't really mean it You don't, don't really mean it [Bridge] How many fates turn around in the overtime? Ballerinas that have fins that you'll never find You thought that you were the bomb, yes, well so did I Say you don't want it, say you don't want it How many fates turn around in the overtime? Ballerinas that have fins that you'll never find You thought that you were the bomb, yes, well so did I Say you don't want it, say you don't want it [Chorus] Say you don't want it, again and again But you don't, don't really mean it You say you don't want it, the circus we're in But you don't, don't really mean it You don't, don't really mean it [Outro] She's addicted to nicotine patches She's afraid of the light in the dark 6:58 are you sure where my spark is? Here, here, here