Caught a Lite Sneeze

"Caught a Lite Sneeze"
Single by Tori Amos
from the album Boys for Pele
B-side
  • "This Old Man"
  • "That's What I Like Mick (The Sandwich Song)"
  • "Graveyard"
  • "Toodles Mr. Jim"
  • "Hungarian Wedding Song"
  • "London Girls"
  • "Samurai"
ReleasedJanuary 1, 1996 (1996-01-01)
Length4:27
Label
Songwriter(s)Tori Amos
Producer(s)Tori Amos
Tori Amos singles chronology
"Past the Mission"
(1994)
"Caught a Lite Sneeze"
(1996)
"Talula"
(1996)

"Caught a Lite Sneeze" is a song by American singer-songwriter Tori Amos, released by Atlantic and EastWest as the first single from her third studio album, Boys for Pele (1996), on January 1, 1996. The song is about wanting to do anything to keep a relationship going, knowing that it is over.[1] It references Nine Inch Nails's album Pretty Hate Machine in the lyrics "Caught a lite sneeze / Dreamed a little dream / Made my own pretty hate machine." On December 11, 1995, Atlantic made the song available for streaming on their website, one of the earliest examples of a major label implementing such a feature.[2]

Following the song's release, it reached number 60 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and number 20 on the UK Singles Chart. Despite being one of her higher-charting singles, it does not appear on her best-of collection, Tales of a Librarian. In live performances from 1996 and 1998, Amos would frequently insert lines directly from and inspired by "Hurt", another song by Nine Inch Nails.

  1. ^ Quotes from interviews with Tori Amos Archived January 21, 2008, at the Wayback Machine.
  2. ^ Pride, Dominic; Taylor, Chuck (January 13, 1996). "Amos Bares Soul on Atlantic Set". Billboard. Vol. 108, no. 2. p. 66.