victoria was written about this girl in his dorm. this is a synopsis of the story he told on 09.16.00, but i’ve listened to my tape many times, so much of it is close to an exact quote. tori would always walk around with this girl jan and they were very symbiotic like the alligator and the crocodile — you always saw them together, they were never apart. and one night, tori came by the room alone at 2 am. john and matt [mangano] were night cats so they were up and john was ironing his shirts. she came in and she started touching his stuff and ironing his shirts for him. later on that night, matt was having an IM fight with his girlfriend in california, and john could hear him angrily tapping away at the keys. john was in bed, playing himself to sleep, and matt said, “don’t know why tori came by tonight.” so john played those chords and sang “don’t know why tori came by” the way you hear it on IWO. they both went “whoa!” and john sang into the tape recorder the following lyrics:
i don’t know why tori came by
but i could see by the look in her eye
tori’d been wanderin’ ‘round the halls for a while
looking for an open door to stand in front of
don’t know why, but tori just smiled
and she came in and she ironed my clothes
and i could swear
i could see through her shirt
at the nipple rings
and he said to us that after that, you obviously can’t write anything more with those lyrics, but matt encouraged him to finish it, so “the whole song is fiction. i’m sorry. this is probably ruining the vibe for a lot of you.” and he didn’t like the idea of calling the song tori so he named it victoria instead.
(by Jocelyn)
The Victoria from John’s dorm is Victoria Vox, who went through Berklee - http://www.myspace.com/victoriavox
Souce: mayersongs.wikispaces.com/
