Tori Amos plays her song "Leather" live in concert at the Paramount Theatre in Oakland, California on June 10, 2022. Leather originally appeared on Amos' debut solo studio album, Little Earthquakes (1992). Tori Amos is a Grammy nominated singer-songwriter from Baltimore, Maryland. This concert comes in the final week of the North American leg of her Ocean To Ocean tour. Joining Amos onstage were Jon Evans (bass) and Ash Soan (drums).
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Leather lyrics:
Look I'm standing naked before you
Don't you want more than my sex
I can scream as loud as your last one
But I can't claim innocence
Oh God could it be the weather
Oh God why am I here
If love isn't forever
And it's not the weather
Hand me my leather
I could just pretend that you love me
The night would lose all sense of fear
But why do I need you to love me
When you can't hold what I hold dear
Oh God could it be the weather
Oh God why am I here
If love isn't forever
And its not the weather
Hand me my leather
I almost ran over an angel
He had a nice big fat cigar
"In a sense," he said, "you're alone here"
"So if you jump you best jump far"
Oh God could it be the weather
Oh God why am I here
If love isn't forever
And it's not the weather
Oh God could it be the weather
Oh God it's all very clear
If love isn't forever
And it's not the weather
Hand me my leather
Written by Myra Ellen Amos
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Tori Amos - Ocean To Ocean North American Tour live dates:
4/27: Dallas, TX @ Majestic Theatre
4/29: San Antonio, TX @ Majestic Theatre
4/30: Sugar Land, TX @ Smart Financial Centre
5/1: Austin, TX @ ACL Live at the Moody Theater
5/4: Atlanta, GA @ Atlanta Symphony Hall
5/5: Greenville, SC @ Peace Center Concert Hall
5/6: Raleigh, NC @ Raleigh Memorial Auditorium
5/8: Oxon Hill, MD @ The Theater at MGM National Harbor
5/9: Philadelphia, PA @ The Met Philadelphia
5/11: Brooklyn, NY @ Kings Theatre
5/12: Brooklyn, NY @ Kings Theatre
5/14: Boston, MA @ Orpheum Theatre
5/15: Portland, ME @ Merrill Auditorium
5/16: Providence, RI @ The Vets
5/18: Rochester, NY @ Kodak Hall at Eastman Theater
5/19: Toronto, ON @ Meridian Hall
5/21: Columbus, OH @ Palace Theatre
5/22: Cleveland, OH @ KeyBank State Theatre
5/24: Cincinnati, OH @ Taft Theatre
5/25: Chicago, IL @ Auditorium Theatre
5/26: Ann Arbor, MI @ Michigan Theater
5/28: Madison, WI @ The Orpheum Theater
5/29: Milwaukee, WI @ Bradley Symphony Center
5/31: Kansas City, MO @ Kansas City Music Hall
6/2: Denver, CO @ Paramount Theatre
6/5: Seattle, WA @ Paramount Theatre
6/7: Portland, OR @ Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall
6/8: Vancouver, BC @ The Centre For Performing Arts
6/10: Oakland, CA @ Paramount Theatre
6/11: San Diego, CA @ Balboa Theatre
6/12: Phoenix, AZ @ Orpheum Theatre
6/15: Los Angeles, CA @ Orpheum Theatre
6/16: Los Angeles, CA @ Orpheum Theatre
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Tori Amos official bio:
Since the release of her first, career-defining solo album Little Earthquakes in 1992, Tori Amos has been one of the music industry’s most enduring and ingenious artists. From her unnerving depiction of sexual assault in “Me and a Gun” to her post-9/11 album Scarlet’s Walk to her decidedly feminist stage musical The Light Princess in 2013, her work has never shied away from intermingling the personal with the political. Her fifteenth and most recent studio album, Native Invader (2017), was formed out of her desire to prove that “we can out-create the destructiveness that is all around us,” and that same message became the foundation of her second New York Times - bestseller - 2020’s Resistance: A Songwriter’s Story of Hope, Change, and Courage as a potent antidote to our current (inter)national trauma.
A pioneer across multiple platforms, Tori was the first major label artist to offer a single for download. Nominated for multiple Grammy Awards and achieving nine top 10 US Albums, she has had her songs turned into graphic novels and has produced ground-breaking videos throughout her career. In late 2016 she released the title song ‘Flicker’ to the acclaimed Netflix documentary ‘Audrie and Daisy’, addressing issues of high school rape. A noted humanitarian, Tori was the first spokesperson for RAINN (Rape, Abuse, and Incest National Network), which is the United States’ largest anti-sexual assault organization and continues to be on their National Leadership Council today.