Tori Amos has released ‘Shush’, the second offering from her forthcoming album In Times of Dragons. Following ‘Stronger Together’, a duet with her daughter Tash, the haunting new single imagines an alternate reality in which she’s married an evil billionaire “lizard demon,” and it calls back to her classic ‘Silent All These Years’. Listen to it below.
“He represents what we’re dealing with right now,” Amos explained in a statement. “He sees congressmen, senators, and even probably presidents as people who answer to him and other billionaires, who don’t think you and I should vote. He’s trying to develop the kind of feudal system we had hundreds of years ago. But it doesn’t look like it once did. We don’t look like we’re in the trenches, in the muck. We have all the cool, digital devices now. So it looks different. But it has the same philosophy.”
In Times of Dragons arrives on May 1 via Universal/Fontana.
