Songs from Tori are like secret whispers from her to her audience... intimate, personal, resonating and here's the real secret... she sings of secrets we didn't know we had yet.
I was 14 when this album came out in 1992. I'm a straight male but I was a particularly sensitive one then. It blew me away. It's the best debut album ever to me, better even than The Kick Inside. Listening to this album in a pre-internet cold winter in England, this beautiful yet often kind of extremely culturally polarised country, was simply the most bittersweet experience. It was actually intensely magical, because life is literally magical - logically, it makes more sense that nothing should exists than that anything exists. The little earthquakes that caused life at all are doomed or blessed to be in us all too.
I'm not easily given to hyperbole - I love Kate Bush, Pink Floyd, John Lennon, etc etc but if I could choose only 1 song to be the most perfect blend of dynanism, sadness, and even humour, Tear in Your Hand is it. "I don't believe you're leaving because me and Charles Manson like the same ice cream" is actually my favourite line of ANY song. It's so amusing and so bitterly 'are you kidding me?' to the person she's saying it to, followed by the hurt of 'I think it's that girl. And I think they're pieces of me you've never seen. maybe she's just pieces of me you've never seen'. It's a perfect verse and Tori must have known it, must know it. I would even arguably rate Little Earthquakes as the best debut album by any artist. I think it's even better than The Kick Inside by Kate Bush. But so it should be as musicians have had time to absorb Kate Bush's progression.
I used to play this album on sleep. The emotional rocking track towards the end made me sit up. My all time favorite by her, and I'm not suffering any unrequited love. It's just a great song.
41 comments and nobody has quoted this, o.k. I'll do it. "there's pieces of me you've never seen... Maybe she's just pieces of me you've never, seen." .... Absolutely brilliant.
Same with me. I was in the video store (remember those?) and saw this VHS tape with a striking picture on the front (her at that white piano) and I picked it up and took it home and was blown away. It was a collection of live and video performances. I went out immediately to the music store (remember those?) and bought the CD and absolutely loved it. That album, for whatever reason, is one of those from that time (of a huge mass of amazing music, can someone please invent a freaking time machine?) that just gives me the chills every time. I remember I bought another copy of the VHS tape and sent it to some friends on the other side of the country. A few days later they called me, having just watched it, and were saying thank you for sending us that, it was amazing.
This is my favorite Tori song. It's the saddest song I've ever heard. It breaks my heart every time I hear it. She perfectly captures the emotions and thoughts of what it's like to be dumped, the heartache of being replaced
You just know she was THERE when she came up with these words, the black of the blackest ocean. How many people hearing this have been able to relate to that at some time? Like how Van Gogh said his medium was light itself, in this kind of song, Tori's medium is emotion itself. Pure art, pure genius.
@@vinvass2674 👏 beautifully said. I haven't heard this song in like twenty years, and it just hit me like a ton of bricks. Instant weeping when the song started and all the memories of youth came flooding in so quick.
...played this over and over and over again for so many months...so many years ago.... and it was so right... ‘she’s just pieces of ME you haven’t seen yet’!😄
My mom got me into Tori in Middle School. I remember I was obsessed with this album. This song brings me back to that confusing yet blissful time in my life.
FC_CT C My daughter just turned 18 and I found a playlist that she listens to in her car full of all of the songs I introduced her to growing up, Tori included.
My 15 year old daughter was just replaced when her girlfriend cheated on her. She found out on social media and I know this song is exactly how she feels. Never heard her scream and cry like that in my life. Of course the same excuse…bc her and Charles Manson like the same ice cream. My daughter doesn’t understand lies and being dishonest. I saw this coming, but she could not believe anyone would do that to someone else’s soul. Even tho she’s 15, the pain is just as bad. I hate seeing my baby hurt like this😢❤️
@@jeremynemily That's so fantastic, shes lucky to have you :) When i was 18 I had a mixed tape with the stuff I loved - Kate Bush (Wuthering Heights was my mother's recommendation), Tori, Paula Cole, Bjork, all the 90's gals and some oldies from my mom.... xxx
I LOVE artist Tori Amos! I got introduced to her music years ago! I am adopted and she reminds me of what I would picture my own biological mother to be, very sensitive, beautiful, and articulate with a clarity of Life
An incredibly melancholic and beautifully uplifting song at the same time, thank you for posting this extraordinary video, Ashley Thomas, much appreciated.
I had this on repeat the first time I broke up with my high school sweet heart (first love). I don't believe you're leavin cause me and Charles Manson like the same ice cream. Think. It's. That. Girl. All the world is danglin', danglin', danglin for me Darlin you don't know the power that you had with that tear in your hand. And the best line... Cut my hands up, every time I touch you. Maybe it's time, to wave goodbye now.
Tori's most beloved song for me... These phrases brake me into tears... All the world just stopped now. Let me take a deep breath babe... I think there're pieces of me you've never seen well Maybe it's time to wave goodbye now Time to wave goodbye now I tell you there're peices of me you've never seen...
I've always heard the skin on the inside of your hand, if its tattooed dont stay long because the dead skin flakes off so much there...my friend has a design on her wrist and had a star on the lower part of her palm and it disappeared completely after 2 years..like it disappeared all weirdly
i heard this song for the first time probably in middle school on grooveshark because of the neil gaiman shout out--kind of taken aback by how lush it is what a cool rediscovery
I'm reading #41 right now and came to hear the song. It works well being connected to Delirium. I was very happy when I was turned on to 'Standard White Jesus' from the comic in the chapter about the "Cereal" convention. When art meets art the meta gets real.
All the world just stopped now. So you say, don't wanna stay together anymore. Let me take a deep breath babe. I remember feeling exactly that when my first real girlfriend suggested we split up. She meant she was dumping me of course. The whole world stopped. It took my breath away. I vaguely remember her coming up with some vague excuse for wanting to dump me - not me liking the same icecream as Charles Manson, but something like that. And when she found a new boyfriend, I thought she just hadn't really seen the real me. If only she had seen those pieces.........(Stacy, are you there?) and that is the beauty of this song. I really think this and Winter are 2 of the most beautiful songs ever written.
@@turquoisesnowflake4613 They are close friends since ages! Neil Gaiman said several times a lot of his writing is inspired by Tori Amos and Tori Amos said the same about him 😊
Tori mentions Neil in almost every one of her older albums, and Neil based his character Delirium (from the Sandman graphic novels, which are awesome)largely on Tori.
Yep 3 years after this came out my gf cheated on me while I ventured on a road trip out west, this was the one song I resonated perfectly (flipping the sex) when I came back and something was wrong, she wouldn't tell me, forced me to break up. Tears... from both of us... then I found out the truth from a friend 3 months later. Powerful, deceitful or secretly honest her tears were.
You may have all the power now ... My tears have fueled it for as long as I can imagine ... Not anymore ... I'm hurting now but I can't and won't cry forever ... Goodbye to you ... XOXO KRP ...
My father passed away on October 20, 2020. This song came on while i was grieving for him. I've never heard of it before. And Neil was the name of my pet hamster I had years ago. So now I envision my Pops and Neil hanging out together.
...which I always thought was "the black of the black nasturtium". Well why wouldn't it be? It's so 'Tori-esque' to take a garish little flower and make it black, as black as his heart"
Listening to your mix and when Tori came up after the Cure I was like.. Did I make this playlist?!?! WTF? You're my music twin. So random and exactly me. Hello. haha
One of my favorite songs of hers. Been a fan since 1992. Always was curious about one thing. The part where she says "I don't believe you're leaving cuz me and Charles Manson like the same ice cream" because her now ex Trent Reznor had at one point lived in the house Sharon Tate lived in on Cielo Drive when she was murdered along with 4 others by Manson followers and then after Trent moved he took the door that they had written PIG on. Also, he recorded The Downward Spiral album in that house. Just trying to find a correlation between the two.
This was before she nailed Trent, but there's plenty of correlation. Since they are both witches who will do ANYTHING for fame and fortune, it makes perfect sense that Tori and Trent should have hooked up at some point. Trent LOVES witchy women (Tori, Erykah, Seraphim), and they have been his downfall in life. Tori really thought the murder house was cool, make of that what you will. Also, Tori and Trent pretend to be "sensitive" when they are actually a couple of thoroughly insensitive attention whores. Tori is probably a worse person than Trent is, since she has exploited children for profit ("Raspberry Swirl"). But they are both evil people.
I think that’s the point, that there is no correlation. The reason given for the breakup is some irrelevant trivial thing that isn’t even remotely close to the actual reason for breaking up. Sometimes people don’t want to say why they’re dumping someone, especially if they feel guilty for their reason to break up, so they make up some arbitrary reason. That’s how I’ve always interpreted that line, but it definitely wouldn’t surprise me if it had some other meta meaning that I’m unaware of, because Tori loves to use those personal references such as “Neil and the Dream King” to double up as something else (escapism).
Never beg anyone to stay ever again. Don’t take hostages & make them stay out of their guilt. Why lower yourself to stay with someone who doesn’t want to be with you.
Don't cry foriegn people. Fry, futurama. Wendy's old fri's 2009, I will never go back to corporate fry's. Got diagnosed with asperger's at almost 31 years old. Glad that I had Tori Amos 2 numb the pain b4 I got fucked in2 this world. Want to share my tattoos. I will not reproduce. I will not put my children through the same shit that I couldn't even handle.
In 1992 I was a college girl walking around campus with this blaring in my Walkman (!), pining away over some unattainable crush. "There's pieces of me you've never seen...."
I was a college guy then... living with musicians, mostly in in Male dominated bands. We were friends with this women song writer who introduced us. You never saw so many guys fall enraptured by a songwriter like we all did when we heard this. We had big speakers we put in the windows to blast Tori.
