Piano: Tori Amos Lyrics: Tori Amos Vocals: Tori Amos Backing Vocals: Trent Reznor

From All These Years authorized biography 1994 edition: Tori did leave the desert once during the recording for an unlikely visit to "The Tate House" in Beverly Hills, the site of the Charles Manson murders. She went there to see Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails...Trent was renting the house (which has since been torn down), and he had happily agreed to lend his voice to backup vocals on the track Past The Mission. Tori did find the place slightly spooky, and, as evidence cites her failed attempt to cook for the willowy Trent - "who I'd been dying to fatten up" - and company her famous Southern baked chicken, a fail-proof recipe which failed miserably. Upon telephoning her mother, Tori received the explanation that there was probably a "heavy curse" on the kitchen as an heir of the Folger's Coffee empire had "perished" in the house. Despite the eerie etmosphere, Trent laid down some almost unrecognizably smooth vocals.