Unrelenting Light - Tori Amos -foorumi

Another unreleased song, Take Me With You, was 16 years in the making, having been rediscovered by her engineer and husband, Mark Hawley. "When we put it up on the boards they looked at me and said, 'Well, all it needs is a vocal.' I said, 'I can't do that 16 years later,'" Amos recalls. "I thought about it and the song really started to call me to it. After 48 hours, I could finally finish the lyric and record it."
-- Tori; aolmusicnewsblog.com, Sept 11, 2006

I hadn't listened to "Take Me With You" since 1993 because I thought it was lost. I was then going to try and finish it for Under the Pink. Obviously I didn't, but unknowingly it's really been with me this whole time. I was asked to compose the music for one of Victor & Rolf's fashion shows back in 2005. I began writing the piece based on the Biblical Song of Solomon, but there must have been a musical theme that led me in to the first two bars of the chorus of "Take Me With You". Since I played live during the fashion show and had never done anything like this before, it ended up mostly as improvisation. But listening back I realized in that spontaneous moment how much I was still influenced by this song I could never seem to complete.