Is it just Tori Amos who everybody overanalyzes and claims to just know every detail of her songs? I mean geez half of the claims about the meaning of her songs are blatant lies, and it just takes a moment to find out, from her own words, the meaning behind her songs online. If you dont know the meaning the hell is the point making shit up??
"Talking about music is like dancing about architecture." -Steve Martin. Get a life, cupcakes. I doubt Tori herself gave the damn video this much thought...20 years ago when it came out. That big rectangular thing with the hinges on it? It leads OUTSIDE. There are people out there. Check it out.
If anyone is puzzled over the meaning of this song may I suggest you read up on what Tori has to say. She has written some amazing books and she has A LOT to say. There are plenty of interviews here on YouTube.
This is the thing I have never understood about videos....the lyrics totally point to her miscarriage, but yet...the visuals deal with an abduction.....why not have visual references like an empty crib or a spinning mobile or Tori rocking in a chair or whatever.....why make a video that has nothing to do with the song is about....?
@lauriepants1 Because she is describing the EMOTION. How crass would it be to have empty cribs, spinning mobiles and other such tacky cliches? Tori encodes her songs, lyrics and art to speak to the audience on a deeper level. Think about the feelings of loss and how it feels to have something so innately yours taken from you. Abduction is being taken against your will. Your soul is hijacked etc etc. This is art, not MTV. Come on!
@MetaMiss Um actually it was MTV that played this when it first came out. And no I wasn't thinking of cliches like empty cribs and spinning mobiles....more along the lines of a sad-eyed little fetus with angel wings, floating through a grove of weeping willows...you nasty ignorant little twat. Fuck you and YOUR smug little interpretations.
@lauriepants1 Um, I'm not the ignoramus who has to communicate abusively. Why don't you read what you wrote? - quote - "why not have visual references like an empty crib or a spinning mobile." Now you've taken it a step further and would like to see a winged foetus floating. I'm sure every woman who has suffered a miscarriage would just love this imagery, considering what every hopeful mother wants - a fully developed, healthy LIVING baby. Congratulations - I rest my case.
@lauriepants1 ps darling, they're not my interpretations, it is the meaning of the song. Read up on Tori - it's all there. Education is the key that will help you find improved ways of communicating your point without having to resort to verbally assassinating someone via the internet. If that's how you are in real life, I suggest you practice refining those social skills so you can argue your point in a less self-demeaning manner.
The song is her trying to convince herself that she didn't have a miscarriage, that she didn't want a baby. But the truth (the guy chasing her) is trying to get her, and at the end when the girls (the unborn baby) leave her because she abandoned them. I think.
@Xeitera Tori is Elvis Presley and the blonde girls are Bob Dylan coming along to dethrown the former "king." The baby was lost in a plane crash and the music died.
@Xeitera She is coming to terms with the grief a woman feels in this scenario. "she could move a glacier but she couldn't keep baby alive." - "doubting there's a woman in here somewhere". She doesn't want to be alive anymore, but she "don't really mean it." The characters at the end represent the life (male or female) that she wants to set her free but they can't because they're not really there. Her hands are tied & she is alone but she did choose life because she did not drown (in her grief).
@Xeitera Your explanation said the unborn baby leaves her cos she abandoned them? How is a miscarriage abandonment? Try to think in terms of emotion and not just the events. The baby had it lived would set her free from this grief. Think about it.
@Xeitera interesting take on the situation. Do you really think an unborn baby would harbour a grudge against their mother who miscarried? Since the whole video is a metaphor, I don't think you have really thought about the emotion as much as you are the event that is being conveyed.
@Xeitera then stop acting like one. Saying an unborn, unable to think for itself baby would hold a grudge against its mother, after its dead, even though in no way was the mother to blame, makes you sound like you dont know what a miscarriage is. Or how the mind of an unborn baby works. Because it doesnt work like that. Even a 5 year old would know that so I dont know what to relate you to...
I have been an Ear with Feet for many many many years... this song is about her miscarriage. Very sad sad song.. I cry whenever I hear it. And she is not a smoker!
Hey Tori Amos fans a little help please…I’m looking for a video that was taken after a show during a “fan meet and greet”. It was on Friday April 12th at the Sunrise Musical in Ft. Lauderdale FL, (Dew Drop Inn tour). It was my 14th birthday. To make a long story short, Tori sung me happy birthday!
There were a lot of people taking videos and pictures but I was so shaken up (I was obsessed with her, so needless to say I was a little excited) I didn’t get to ask anyone in the crowd to copy one for me. I know that there must be video of it out there some where and I have been searching for years! Does anyone have or ever seen a video like this floating around?
I am, seeing a lot of commentary on abortions. She wrote this song after she had a MISCARRIAGE not an abortion. "Say you don't want it again and again, but you dont, dont really mean it." She wanted her child, and she lost it. She was telling herself she didn't want it to try and feel better about it, but she did want her child. It is just sad that she lost it :(
@GreatGarloo I think a miscarriage is a fail attempt to live outside the womb of conception and that for a woman means you become inferential thus persecution in every aspect of life reason why many develop depression afterwards
@PlutoCharon33 To be accurate, I was reading Tori's explanation of this song and she described the part you said as someone who wanted to take their own life - give up - "you say you don't want it (life), this circus (living) we're in but you don't really mean it" she said it was like the feeling of someone having a REALLY bad day...
@PlutoCharon33 Why do we have to overanalyze pop songs. Maybe the song is about something specific, but we can also apply it to other things, not just one topic.
In fact, everyone is correct. Why? Art is what you make it. You interpret it how it appeals to you. Go look at at a Jackson Pollock painting, everyone will say something different. However, many more women have had abortions than some realize. The trauma has been minimized by the Pro-Choice movement. Most women have nowhere to go to get help. They simply turn away or drive away. Miscarriage or abortion, losing a child is never easy.
This was about her miscarriage and how she felt like she wanted to die,found the strength to move forward "but she don't, she don't really mean it" She was angry at God for letting it happen hence the line, "trusting my soul to the ice cream man(God)," You would have to be a die hard Tori fan to know that;-)From what I have read the two people in the car at the end of the song that look like Village of the Damned children represent angels...angels leaving her to deal with it on her own.Get it?
Anyone who wants to say Joe Paterno did enough should A, be ashamed...and B, forced to watch this from beginning to end. That boy went through as much, maybe more than Tori's character in this video...and his witnesses did the same thing at the end.
@depswall actually i believe that a guy and a girl who are twins. the guy is just a very androgenous looking fella. i think they are on the album cover, too, but i could be wrong.
I always felt like (for some reason it is music take it how you hear it) she was refering to suicide "say you dont want it, the circus we're in but you dont really mean it" like... people say why go on in this life I'll end it, but then they dont ACTUALLY want to do it.. "shes affraid of the light in the dark". I always saw the video with it as the result of a trauma situation too...
@KimIsMissing i think she was in that abyss where you have no reason to live, I guess she wanted that baby so badly and perhaps nothing ever filled that void... disablement always hurts notice the twins at the end its a very profound lyrical and a very well done video wish one day I can make something alike...
I think that the glaciers and baby alive comment has more to do with the shattering of a preconception of confidence in fact the entire song seems to do with a fight between self confidence and lack thereof... of course i'm probably projecting :) bottom line, awesome song!!! like most of her work a modern day beethoven
@berrybellcosplay , the kids in the car supposed to be her baby - It's Tori's unborn child because she was a smoker (during pregnancy). That's why she sing (about her) "she's addicted to nicotine patches"
...this was back when she was still incredibly brilliant– even as she is backed by a rather mediocre band. This album, or more convincingly, "Boys For Pele", is the last of her better years– the rest I'm afraid, might very well be swept in the dustbin of music history. Even her music videos were so highly unusual & original. After this, it was kind of downhill for her...
This song gives me CHILLS; just like any other song of hers. This woman is by far my favorite female artist and her music is brilliant. Its good to know that there is still good music out here like her's. So mystical and beautiful. The piano parts in her songs are breath taking and literally brings you into her song. I hope to see more of her soon!!
Teacher showed us this in class, to explain poetry. We had to write down what we thought the lyrics meant, then she showed us the video. My meaning was not even colse <|3
@KarahSings More teachers should do that. It's great to see some teachers who DONT hate all comtemporary Art/call it degenerate etc. There are MANY modern artists who make actual poetry which has to be interpreted using one's brain that deserves academic attention. The Justin Biebers of that era just didn't get remembered. Old PPL complain that anyone looks at old style poems anymore, but aren't most song lyrics a form of poetry? Goethe, Shakespeare etc were once new, too.
Tori Amos is one of my absolute favorite artists. She's simply a genius at what she is doing, and still there are a lot of people who haven't even noticed her. If it hadn't been for Johnny Cash she would top my personal top 10 :D
I had a friend who lost their baby when I was ready to deliver. She was a month behind me and I prayed. Good news, she delivered about 1 1/2 years later!
Tori Amos is one the best best songwriters to emerge in the last 50 years, and I always appreciated the incredible musicanship and structure of this this song: however, the lyrical meaning went way over my head. Now that my dear wife has miscarried four times (and perhaps more), I can say that I truly get this song....a little more than I care to.
I can't begin to know how you and your wife must feel. I was pregnant once, but became so by accident even though protection was used. When I had a miscarriage it was for the best, but it still felt sad. I can hardly imagine how you and your wife must feel. I don't pray, but please know that I will send loving-positive energy into the universe for you and your wife, and I will ask my friends and family to do the same.
lady gaga copies tori just as much as a she does madonna, i mean, right here in this song tori's referencing judas, addictions and mermaids, plus she's always talking about mary magdalene... all these things are what gaga is so into right now, image-wise and lyrics-wise... the way gaga plays the piano reminds me or tori, the music style too... not hating on gaga, but the influence is so obvious
@rflmywfl1 Love her lips and teeth,and her hair curly,she looks so much different with straightened hair, I sure hope she doesn't nip and tuck anything,her face is too beautiful to alter anything, and then your looks change and they are not once what they were,I'm sure you can think of a few people,who look nothing like they did ex.(Vince Neil,Motley Crue)geesh he looks like he's smiling permantly and it's his only expression,plastic surgery sucks...it changes you,you know?!
@rflmywfl1 I agree, aging brings on character,but even I look different, 10 years go by, and,holy cow,who hit the fast forward button...and there's no rewinding time,just appreciating what was,except I didn't know it back then,I guess that why we all live and learn,right?lol...Even so Tori is Timeless...
Considering all the abortions she (presumably) had earlier in life, Tori Amos had no right complaining about a miscarriage at this point in her life. The nerve of some people is amazing. Her miscarriage was probably God’s way of saying, “Hey Tori, have you forgotten about all of those abortions you had earlier in your life?”
@2violets Seeing how your assuming that Tori having abortions with no exact proof is full of nerve in itself. She talks about her miscarriages yes, but does she ever say that she had an abortion? Not from what I can tell. Is it your job to call judgement on someone's life? Nah. But we all have our opinions. And how is she complaining? She's expressing something that meant something to her. She has every right.
@2violets Presumably? Show me proof. Besides I see nothing wrong with an abortion. If you didn't know she was raped by a very evil man. If your god takes such a beautiful woman...Lets her get raped after finally managing to get her carrer started, never having this evil man caught. Once she somewhat was okay made a company to HELP others who were raped, then your 'god' made her have a miscarriage? I hope YOU get raped. Sexual abuse is somthing you never get over. Damn Christians..
@starcatfri I'm sorry that some of you feel this way about God and Christians but I hope you come to learn that we are not all these extreme religious zelots. I also strongly dissagree with 2violets, God would never purposely make someone have a miscarrage because he has already paid for our sins and forgiven us. I have been raped and I wouldn't wish it on anyone, no matter what they have done because I'm not perfect or a saint I'm quite the opposite, but abortion isn't right either its murder.
@2violets The Lord must be quite a cruel asshole then, since that would mean he steps on the fingers of people who have just started to see the error of their ways. Besides, how do you know she had any abortions? It's the first time hear about any of this. Aren't you just making this up because she "dared" to point out that some branches of your religion repress women? You should save your breath to make the Christian community more friendly to women so less women will leave it and sing about
@KendrixTermina I do not agree with 2violets either and I'm not trying to sound like a know it all but you can't base the entire religion of christianity on only one of its branches, take catholicism for example it is completely different from non-denominational, we don't believe in purgatory or doing hail mary's etc. I also am not aware of any branch that does repress women but if you can find it and tell me I will research it.
@23025005490172 Sorry if it sounded like I was generalizing. I was upset. I know not all Christians are like that. It's not the religion, it's the people. A bad person will blow others up, a good person will be charitable. It really helps some people get over bad times, wether you see it as a good, powerful friend and protector helping them or as the belief being a crutch to channel their very own willpower. I do, however, think that some branches ()certainly NOT all of them) DO demean women.
@23025005490172 For example, my father is orthodox and he forced me, my sisters and my mother to wear a headscarf to church, just like some muslims do (again, SOME, any halfway developed muslim country like Turkey or some in southern and eastern Asia has at least partially outlawed it) and then theres catholicism which says that women can't be priests and wants us all back in the kitchen to pop out babies. It was really frustrating to me 'cause my father told me that i can only work
@23025005490172 úntill I have kids, and I wanted to be scientist since I'm five... also, again, SOME (not all) catholics say that the sole purpose of marriage is to produce babies (Which is why they're against homosexuals, but I've heard of cases of disabled and otherwise infertile people being denied a catholic wedding service) which is just sick. Any woman who is only married for status, to make babies, money or something like that is noting but a prostitute.
@23025005490172 We're so long over that, aren't we? People shouldn't be forced to get together for any other reason than that they want each other in some way. Also, they're against divorce, which Is just a horrible thing to do, because, it's like they want to be the woman something the man bought.
@2violets how they hated it. while I too think abortion is a horrible thing (albeit probably for VERY different reasons than you) it's awfully cruel to hate on the women who do it, they're just victims, too. Most do it because they're desperate and/or misinformed, don't know any better and a some of them even end up traumatized afterwards (Which DOES happen, and, if you consider abortion a valid medical procedure, is a possible complication patiens are seldom told about)
@2violets Also, it's not like anyone can decide what they feel and if she feels sad and cheated, then she feels sad and cheated.peroid. If you're suggesting ANYONE who isn't a crazy dictator, racist or mass muderer deserves something as horrible as a misscarriage happening to them, you must be a heartless punk. I don't know much about Christianity since I decided I was through with it a long time ago, but isn't there that one passage about not having vengeful thoughts and forgiveness?
@2violets "Turn the other cheek" "hate the sin, not the sinner" and similar stuff...? I think you should REALLY reconsider if you have the right to call anyone a hypocrite.
i too lost a baby halfway through pregnancy...i feel this song on a very different level... bless all the "little angels" and the families trying to cope with such devastation...u are not alone.
(cont'd) This concept is reflected in Cruel by Tori from the same album. She says "I don't know why" throughout the song. Saying that she doesn't know why those angels don't come to save when you need them most.
OMG, thumbs up if you discovered this in 2012.
iamBizarreMonster 1 day ago
Is it just Tori Amos who everybody overanalyzes and claims to just know every detail of her songs? I mean geez half of the claims about the meaning of her songs are blatant lies, and it just takes a moment to find out, from her own words, the meaning behind her songs online. If you dont know the meaning the hell is the point making shit up??
QBFOJustin 3 days ago
lol...wow...the commentary.
ravendann81 1 week ago
I read she got a scholarship to study classical piano at age 5. Genius ,pure genius
guitarlawyer75 2 weeks ago
"Talking about music is like dancing about architecture." -Steve Martin. Get a life, cupcakes. I doubt Tori herself gave the damn video this much thought...20 years ago when it came out. That big rectangular thing with the hinges on it? It leads OUTSIDE. There are people out there. Check it out.
69kumquat 2 weeks ago
If anyone is puzzled over the meaning of this song may I suggest you read up on what Tori has to say. She has written some amazing books and she has A LOT to say. There are plenty of interviews here on YouTube.
MetaMiss 2 weeks ago
This is the thing I have never understood about videos....the lyrics totally point to her miscarriage, but yet...the visuals deal with an abduction.....why not have visual references like an empty crib or a spinning mobile or Tori rocking in a chair or whatever.....why make a video that has nothing to do with the song is about....?
lauriepants1 3 weeks ago
@lauriepants1 Tori doesn't really want to have just one interpretation of a song...
Julzy20032000 2 weeks ago
@lauriepants1 Because she is describing the EMOTION. How crass would it be to have empty cribs, spinning mobiles and other such tacky cliches? Tori encodes her songs, lyrics and art to speak to the audience on a deeper level. Think about the feelings of loss and how it feels to have something so innately yours taken from you. Abduction is being taken against your will. Your soul is hijacked etc etc. This is art, not MTV. Come on!
MetaMiss 2 weeks ago
@MetaMiss Um actually it was MTV that played this when it first came out. And no I wasn't thinking of cliches like empty cribs and spinning mobiles....more along the lines of a sad-eyed little fetus with angel wings, floating through a grove of weeping willows...you nasty ignorant little twat. Fuck you and YOUR smug little interpretations.
lauriepants1 2 weeks ago
@lauriepants1 Um, I'm not the ignoramus who has to communicate abusively. Why don't you read what you wrote? - quote - "why not have visual references like an empty crib or a spinning mobile." Now you've taken it a step further and would like to see a winged foetus floating. I'm sure every woman who has suffered a miscarriage would just love this imagery, considering what every hopeful mother wants - a fully developed, healthy LIVING baby. Congratulations - I rest my case.
MetaMiss 2 weeks ago
@lauriepants1 ps darling, they're not my interpretations, it is the meaning of the song. Read up on Tori - it's all there. Education is the key that will help you find improved ways of communicating your point without having to resort to verbally assassinating someone via the internet. If that's how you are in real life, I suggest you practice refining those social skills so you can argue your point in a less self-demeaning manner.
MetaMiss 2 weeks ago
Okay so let me get this straight:
The song is her trying to convince herself that she didn't have a miscarriage, that she didn't want a baby. But the truth (the guy chasing her) is trying to get her, and at the end when the girls (the unborn baby) leave her because she abandoned them. I think.
Xeitera 3 weeks ago
@Xeitera Tori is Elvis Presley and the blonde girls are Bob Dylan coming along to dethrown the former "king." The baby was lost in a plane crash and the music died.
edwdixon5 3 weeks ago
@edwdixon5 ._.
Xeitera 2 weeks ago
@Xeitera She is coming to terms with the grief a woman feels in this scenario. "she could move a glacier but she couldn't keep baby alive." - "doubting there's a woman in here somewhere". She doesn't want to be alive anymore, but she "don't really mean it." The characters at the end represent the life (male or female) that she wants to set her free but they can't because they're not really there. Her hands are tied & she is alone but she did choose life because she did not drown (in her grief).
MetaMiss 2 weeks ago
@MetaMiss ...That was confusing. .3.
Xeitera 2 weeks ago
@Xeitera what was confusing?
MetaMiss 2 weeks ago
@MetaMiss Er...it just kind of didn't make sense. I thought my explanation made sense, and yours just kind of threw me off track. o3o'
Xeitera 2 weeks ago
@Xeitera Your explanation said the unborn baby leaves her cos she abandoned them? How is a miscarriage abandonment? Try to think in terms of emotion and not just the events. The baby had it lived would set her free from this grief. Think about it.
MetaMiss 2 weeks ago
@MetaMiss The unborn baby was mad at Tori for abandoning her (accidentally), so they abandoned her.
Xeitera 2 weeks ago
@Xeitera interesting take on the situation. Do you really think an unborn baby would harbour a grudge against their mother who miscarried? Since the whole video is a metaphor, I don't think you have really thought about the emotion as much as you are the event that is being conveyed.
MetaMiss 2 weeks ago
@MetaMiss Yeah, the baby would have a grudge. How would you feel if your mom just let you die? (Well, not on purpose.)
Xeitera 2 weeks ago
@Xeitera that has to be the most ridiculous argument I have ever heard. There is nothing I can say to it, except GOODBYE
MetaMiss 2 weeks ago
@MetaMiss ...
Xeitera 2 weeks ago
@Xeitera based on your comments, you dont even know what a miscarriage is...
QBFOJustin 3 days ago
@QBFOJustin A miscarriage is when someone is pregnant and the baby dies inside the mom. I'm not a fricken 5 year old. =_=
Xeitera 1 day ago
@Xeitera then stop acting like one. Saying an unborn, unable to think for itself baby would hold a grudge against its mother, after its dead, even though in no way was the mother to blame, makes you sound like you dont know what a miscarriage is. Or how the mind of an unborn baby works. Because it doesnt work like that. Even a 5 year old would know that so I dont know what to relate you to...
QBFOJustin 1 day ago
pft... dem be some blonde Cornflake hoes
nycGWOD 3 weeks ago
Blond girls.. =)
TheTobytod 3 weeks ago
I thought the song was about rape.
fiflamour 1 month ago
@fiflamour its about her misscarriage
itisthefear 3 weeks ago
I have been an Ear with Feet for many many many years... this song is about her miscarriage. Very sad sad song.. I cry whenever I hear it. And she is not a smoker!
pvadertube 1 month ago
i feel her pain, hence the fact im listening to this song after years of not hearing it...
NinaMarieM83 1 month ago
One of my favourite video!one of best moment of tori's music
TheSpellSound 1 month ago
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TheSpellSound 1 month ago
Aren't there any real Ears with feet here?? Toriphiles should set all these assholes straight; don't pretend you know or understand her!
Diddauberalles 1 month ago
here here here
michellesingsfunny 1 month ago
@michellesingsfunny That's the one thing I get tired of - she sings that in hearly all her songs, and it drives me batty some reason:)
YellowMangerCalling 1 month ago
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Hey Tori Amos fans a little help please…I’m looking for a video that was taken after a show during a “fan meet and greet”. It was on Friday April 12th at the Sunrise Musical in Ft. Lauderdale FL, (Dew Drop Inn tour). It was my 14th birthday. To make a long story short, Tori sung me happy birthday!
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There were a lot of people taking videos and pictures but I was so shaken up (I was obsessed with her, so needless to say I was a little excited) I didn’t get to ask anyone in the crowd to copy one for me. I know that there must be video of it out there some where and I have been searching for years! Does anyone have or ever seen a video like this floating around?
mssuperstew 1 month ago
Very beautiful video. Tori Amos is such a powerfully creative artist <3
WinterFairyG 1 month ago
I love this video... I would have made it almost the same* Thank you Tori <3
BusinessButterfly 1 month ago in playlist Favorite videos
ITS Amazing
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mastoo75 1 month ago
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Tori Amos is amazing. I just started listening to her music and she's awesome.
EvanescenceloveXD 1 month ago
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EvanescenceloveXD 1 month ago
When I was 17 I fell in LOVE with Tori! I love every song! She's my all time favorite artist! She's my muse! Thanks Tori! -xo
ashleyhanna0 1 month ago 4
One of the most amazing song writer/musicians of our time. Tori is truely gifted!
dannyjoecarter 1 month ago
I am, seeing a lot of commentary on abortions. She wrote this song after she had a MISCARRIAGE not an abortion. "Say you don't want it again and again, but you dont, dont really mean it." She wanted her child, and she lost it. She was telling herself she didn't want it to try and feel better about it, but she did want her child. It is just sad that she lost it :(
PlutoCharon33 1 month ago 36
@PlutoCharon33 true. hell one of her first lines is: "she couldn't keep baby alive/doubting if there's a woman in there somewhere".
I've known women who've miscarried and they often have the thought that they did something wrong and that they aren't "woman enough" to have a child.
GreatGarloo 1 month ago in playlist Favorite videos
@GreatGarloo - interesting.
ABOCHITO 1 month ago
@GreatGarloo I think a miscarriage is a fail attempt to live outside the womb of conception and that for a woman means you become inferential thus persecution in every aspect of life reason why many develop depression afterwards
BusinessButterfly 1 month ago in playlist Favorite videos
@PlutoCharon33 To be accurate, I was reading Tori's explanation of this song and she described the part you said as someone who wanted to take their own life - give up - "you say you don't want it (life), this circus (living) we're in but you don't really mean it" she said it was like the feeling of someone having a REALLY bad day...
MetaMiss 2 weeks ago
@PlutoCharon33 Why do we have to overanalyze pop songs. Maybe the song is about something specific, but we can also apply it to other things, not just one topic.
DarkArabesque 6 days ago
the ending mad me mad. i would save her
rachel99471 1 month ago
did the tree say "Skeeted" ????
ckickenhead 2 months ago
@ckickenhead
this song is about a miscarriage that she had. "skeeter" is what she called her unborn fetus
chewchabie 1 month ago
@chewchabie omg, ive known of this song for well over 10 years and yet i never knew this ... puts a whole new view on the song
ckickenhead 1 month ago
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She's saying that all women are the same
anastasia81472 2 months ago
Q: One last question. Who is the ice cream assassin?
Tori: "Who do you think that is?
Q: I have no idea
Tori: "Well, people have been praying to him for a very long time and more wars have been fought in his name. The big guy. Think about it."
She's so intelligent she's the best
fusilados 2 months ago 12
@fusilados so..... God is an ice cream assassin?????? geeez
ckickenhead 2 months ago
@ckickenhead no.... Satan is.
theyellowrose92 1 month ago
@theyellowrose92 - LOL!
ABOCHITO 1 month ago
Amazing X
sarah7777771 2 months ago
what's with the wierd filter?
blindingsun 2 months ago
In fact, everyone is correct. Why? Art is what you make it. You interpret it how it appeals to you. Go look at at a Jackson Pollock painting, everyone will say something different. However, many more women have had abortions than some realize. The trauma has been minimized by the Pro-Choice movement. Most women have nowhere to go to get help. They simply turn away or drive away. Miscarriage or abortion, losing a child is never easy.
dawnremains 2 months ago
@dawnremains I was going to say something but you said it all xxx
Vixen1987 2 months ago
@nikkysaysrawr Yup. She wrote this when she didn't. Her daughter was born in 2000, "Spark" was made in 1998.
HybridFalcon 2 months ago
Has got to be one of the most haunting songs and videos EVER.
Craverofchocolate 2 months ago 3
This was about her miscarriage and how she felt like she wanted to die,found the strength to move forward "but she don't, she don't really mean it" She was angry at God for letting it happen hence the line, "trusting my soul to the ice cream man(God)," You would have to be a die hard Tori fan to know that;-)From what I have read the two people in the car at the end of the song that look like Village of the Damned children represent angels...angels leaving her to deal with it on her own.Get it?
meredithcorning 2 months ago 3
I actually prefer this version to the unaltered one..
Whuppee 2 months ago 3
it was always my understanding that this song was about her miscarriage.
stop hating.
witchman67 2 months ago
So, you're purposefully attempting to bypass a federal law...
Pow3rGaming 3 months ago in playlist YouTube Mix for Tori Amos
i wonder why God does allow miserableness as so... But i adore this song*
BusinessButterfly 3 months ago
Anyone who wants to say Joe Paterno did enough should A, be ashamed...and B, forced to watch this from beginning to end. That boy went through as much, maybe more than Tori's character in this video...and his witnesses did the same thing at the end.
bm8683 3 months ago
Oh, Tori Amos you're so beautiful.
Anthalie18 3 months ago
She was the Kate Bush of the 90's! She had an enormous spark to her. I saw her in concert a number of times. She is a stunning performer!
smeltriver09 3 months ago 5
@smeltriver09 Absolutely! I always think of Kate Bush when I hear Tori!
itlookslikejello 3 months ago
FUCKING HATE THAT LESBIANS GIRLS THEY LET TORY DOWN ,, COME ON PEPES HELP TORY
depswall 3 months ago
@depswall actually i believe that a guy and a girl who are twins. the guy is just a very androgenous looking fella. i think they are on the album cover, too, but i could be wrong.
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she needs to leave singing to little girls that can
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RaeJye 3 months ago
I always felt like (for some reason it is music take it how you hear it) she was refering to suicide "say you dont want it, the circus we're in but you dont really mean it" like... people say why go on in this life I'll end it, but then they dont ACTUALLY want to do it.. "shes affraid of the light in the dark". I always saw the video with it as the result of a trauma situation too...
KimIsMissing 3 months ago 2
@KimIsMissing i think she was in that abyss where you have no reason to live, I guess she wanted that baby so badly and perhaps nothing ever filled that void... disablement always hurts notice the twins at the end its a very profound lyrical and a very well done video wish one day I can make something alike...
BusinessButterfly 3 months ago
*Tori running away from guy*
Guy: Found you!
Tori: Oh no! How did you do that?
Guy: You sung all the time?
SkullboyVonGhastly 3 months ago 57
JAGUAR? XJ 5? XJ6?
sabertoth 4 months ago
@sabertoth lol, there was no xj5 :D '6' stands for the number of cylinders.
romagen 3 months ago
I've always loved her teeth.....and her music.
adlaremse0424 4 months ago 6
Its about having a miscarriage, not abortion.
remericant 4 months ago 7
saw her preform this last night, totally spine tingling
TheParkerrr 4 months ago
@TheParkerrr Me too!! Absolutely amazing. One of the best gigs I have ever been to
Oystercatcherr 4 months ago 2
I love her lips *.* i wanna kiss her :D xD
RapHipRock 4 months ago
Most incredible video I've ever seen.
Karolcia1993 4 months ago
I think that the glaciers and baby alive comment has more to do with the shattering of a preconception of confidence in fact the entire song seems to do with a fight between self confidence and lack thereof... of course i'm probably projecting :) bottom line, awesome song!!! like most of her work a modern day beethoven
captainhowdy696969 4 months ago 5
those kids in the car didnt help her. That always made me so mad
berrybellcosplay 4 months ago 36
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DeanMartin1231 4 months ago
@berrybellcosplay and it happens all the time, irl.
wolvenwraith 3 months ago
@berrybellcosplay , the kids in the car supposed to be her baby - It's Tori's unborn child because she was a smoker (during pregnancy). That's why she sing (about her) "she's addicted to nicotine patches"
Beebsentrance 1 month ago
...this was back when she was still incredibly brilliant– even as she is backed by a rather mediocre band. This album, or more convincingly, "Boys For Pele", is the last of her better years– the rest I'm afraid, might very well be swept in the dustbin of music history. Even her music videos were so highly unusual & original. After this, it was kind of downhill for her...
Rhopoe 4 months ago
What this song is about?
MarilouPouletPatate 4 months ago
This song gives me CHILLS; just like any other song of hers. This woman is by far my favorite female artist and her music is brilliant. Its good to know that there is still good music out here like her's. So mystical and beautiful. The piano parts in her songs are breath taking and literally brings you into her song. I hope to see more of her soon!!
RachelandKyleHN 4 months ago
Arguably the BEST Tori Amos video ever. The song, the beat, the meaning (and the hidden message), are all perfect.
How come they don't do it like this now?
RainyChua 4 months ago 2
Sus colmillos. <3
SugarPanties3 4 months ago
Teacher showed us this in class, to explain poetry. We had to write down what we thought the lyrics meant, then she showed us the video. My meaning was not even colse <|3
KarahSings 4 months ago 4
@KarahSings I'm a teacher myself, and I think that's a brilliant idea. I'll do that with my next class. :)
RainyChua 4 months ago 3
@KarahSings More teachers should do that. It's great to see some teachers who DONT hate all comtemporary Art/call it degenerate etc. There are MANY modern artists who make actual poetry which has to be interpreted using one's brain that deserves academic attention. The Justin Biebers of that era just didn't get remembered. Old PPL complain that anyone looks at old style poems anymore, but aren't most song lyrics a form of poetry? Goethe, Shakespeare etc were once new, too.
KendrixTermina 2 months ago
"If the divine master plan is perfection, maybe next I'll give Judas a try..."
Oh, if I had a nickel for every time I can relate to that....
hollywoodgogo 5 months ago 2
Somehow, Tori can look gorgeous even in bicycle shorts and a curtain lining :D
Trund27 5 months ago 3
So glad I found this video. This is so beautiful. Cant stop listening!
daidarabocci 5 months ago 3
She looks so damn sexy in this vid...
duine33 5 months ago
A life from a violent happening, lost it at 3months. This song speaks loads to me.
toejamontoast 5 months ago
I can't relate to the lyrics, but I love her haunting voice and the video is AMAZING!
Jorben84 5 months ago
Amazing that this genius can entertain us and also heal all of us who have lost children................
UcaughtWinVirus 5 months ago
thank you...
billerr 5 months ago
thnk ya!!!!!!!!!! i heard every word....
cybersucka 5 months ago
Tori Amos is art.
punkishh 5 months ago
Tori Amos is one of my absolute favorite artists. She's simply a genius at what she is doing, and still there are a lot of people who haven't even noticed her. If it hadn't been for Johnny Cash she would top my personal top 10 :D
ToriFan234 5 months ago 4
I love that woman!
888keyla 5 months ago
I had a friend who lost their baby when I was ready to deliver. She was a month behind me and I prayed. Good news, she delivered about 1 1/2 years later!
TheBethany1991 5 months ago
Tori Amos in the 90's is like the Kate Bush in the 80's.
boogs2007 5 months ago
Tori Amos is one the best best songwriters to emerge in the last 50 years, and I always appreciated the incredible musicanship and structure of this this song: however, the lyrical meaning went way over my head. Now that my dear wife has miscarried four times (and perhaps more), I can say that I truly get this song....a little more than I care to.
drummerstevedixon 5 months ago
@drummerstevedixon
I can't begin to know how you and your wife must feel. I was pregnant once, but became so by accident even though protection was used. When I had a miscarriage it was for the best, but it still felt sad. I can hardly imagine how you and your wife must feel. I don't pray, but please know that I will send loving-positive energy into the universe for you and your wife, and I will ask my friends and family to do the same.
septogram7 5 months ago
Tori is the bestest!!!
corg22 5 months ago
lady gaga copies tori just as much as a she does madonna, i mean, right here in this song tori's referencing judas, addictions and mermaids, plus she's always talking about mary magdalene... all these things are what gaga is so into right now, image-wise and lyrics-wise... the way gaga plays the piano reminds me or tori, the music style too... not hating on gaga, but the influence is so obvious
mariposasabrosa 5 months ago 3
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Agreed. I wonder if she's acknowledged the influence, or if she's even realized it.
kmacmuzikmafia27 5 months ago
She perfectly represents my own kind of woman! Wanna Tori amos like girl!...
NoumaiosDeLaCampa 6 months ago
I'm addicted to Tori Amos lips!...
NoumaiosDeLaCampa 6 months ago
She is awesome!! and now she's coming to Milán!!!
she was my idol when I was young. i used to want to be like her..
Impossible, she is inimitable.. :)
Thank's for the video.!! : P
sofiacortese 6 months ago in playlist YouTube Mix for Tori Amos
I absolutely love her teeth. One of the beautiful imperfections.
rflmywfl1 6 months ago 2
@rflmywfl1 Love her lips and teeth,and her hair curly,she looks so much different with straightened hair, I sure hope she doesn't nip and tuck anything,her face is too beautiful to alter anything, and then your looks change and they are not once what they were,I'm sure you can think of a few people,who look nothing like they did ex.(Vince Neil,Motley Crue)geesh he looks like he's smiling permantly and it's his only expression,plastic surgery sucks...it changes you,you know?!
etherealmist76 4 months ago
@etherealmist76 it really is a shame, it is! I think people are beautiful always.
rflmywfl1 4 months ago
@rflmywfl1 I agree, aging brings on character,but even I look different, 10 years go by, and,holy cow,who hit the fast forward button...and there's no rewinding time,just appreciating what was,except I didn't know it back then,I guess that why we all live and learn,right?lol...Even so Tori is Timeless...
etherealmist76 4 months ago
does anyone else think she looks like Naomi Watts with red hair?
BegImmunity 6 months ago
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Considering all the abortions she (presumably) had earlier in life, Tori Amos had no right complaining about a miscarriage at this point in her life. The nerve of some people is amazing. Her miscarriage was probably God’s way of saying, “Hey Tori, have you forgotten about all of those abortions you had earlier in your life?”
The Lord works in mysterious ways.
2violets 6 months ago
@2violets Seeing how your assuming that Tori having abortions with no exact proof is full of nerve in itself. She talks about her miscarriages yes, but does she ever say that she had an abortion? Not from what I can tell. Is it your job to call judgement on someone's life? Nah. But we all have our opinions. And how is she complaining? She's expressing something that meant something to her. She has every right.
HybridFalcon 6 months ago 35
@HybridFalcon I think a number of people oftentimes forget that music is meant to be a medium for expressing our intrinsic voice.
angelforfreedom 4 months ago
@2violets ummm... wrong.
netminderxp 6 months ago
@2violets If the divine master plan includes people like you...maybe next time we'll give Judas a try.
Azatdawn 6 months ago 2
@2violets Get real
corg22 5 months ago
@2violets Presumably? Show me proof. Besides I see nothing wrong with an abortion. If you didn't know she was raped by a very evil man. If your god takes such a beautiful woman...Lets her get raped after finally managing to get her carrer started, never having this evil man caught. Once she somewhat was okay made a company to HELP others who were raped, then your 'god' made her have a miscarriage? I hope YOU get raped. Sexual abuse is somthing you never get over. Damn Christians..
starcatfri 2 months ago 3
@starcatfri I'm sorry that some of you feel this way about God and Christians but I hope you come to learn that we are not all these extreme religious zelots. I also strongly dissagree with 2violets, God would never purposely make someone have a miscarrage because he has already paid for our sins and forgiven us. I have been raped and I wouldn't wish it on anyone, no matter what they have done because I'm not perfect or a saint I'm quite the opposite, but abortion isn't right either its murder.
23025005490172 2 months ago 3
@2violets The Lord must be quite a cruel asshole then, since that would mean he steps on the fingers of people who have just started to see the error of their ways. Besides, how do you know she had any abortions? It's the first time hear about any of this. Aren't you just making this up because she "dared" to point out that some branches of your religion repress women? You should save your breath to make the Christian community more friendly to women so less women will leave it and sing about
KendrixTermina 2 months ago
@KendrixTermina I do not agree with 2violets either and I'm not trying to sound like a know it all but you can't base the entire religion of christianity on only one of its branches, take catholicism for example it is completely different from non-denominational, we don't believe in purgatory or doing hail mary's etc. I also am not aware of any branch that does repress women but if you can find it and tell me I will research it.
23025005490172 2 months ago
@23025005490172 Sorry if it sounded like I was generalizing. I was upset. I know not all Christians are like that. It's not the religion, it's the people. A bad person will blow others up, a good person will be charitable. It really helps some people get over bad times, wether you see it as a good, powerful friend and protector helping them or as the belief being a crutch to channel their very own willpower. I do, however, think that some branches ()certainly NOT all of them) DO demean women.
KendrixTermina 2 months ago
@23025005490172 For example, my father is orthodox and he forced me, my sisters and my mother to wear a headscarf to church, just like some muslims do (again, SOME, any halfway developed muslim country like Turkey or some in southern and eastern Asia has at least partially outlawed it) and then theres catholicism which says that women can't be priests and wants us all back in the kitchen to pop out babies. It was really frustrating to me 'cause my father told me that i can only work
KendrixTermina 2 months ago
@23025005490172 úntill I have kids, and I wanted to be scientist since I'm five... also, again, SOME (not all) catholics say that the sole purpose of marriage is to produce babies (Which is why they're against homosexuals, but I've heard of cases of disabled and otherwise infertile people being denied a catholic wedding service) which is just sick. Any woman who is only married for status, to make babies, money or something like that is noting but a prostitute.
KendrixTermina 2 months ago
@23025005490172 We're so long over that, aren't we? People shouldn't be forced to get together for any other reason than that they want each other in some way. Also, they're against divorce, which Is just a horrible thing to do, because, it's like they want to be the woman something the man bought.
KendrixTermina 2 months ago
@2violets how they hated it. while I too think abortion is a horrible thing (albeit probably for VERY different reasons than you) it's awfully cruel to hate on the women who do it, they're just victims, too. Most do it because they're desperate and/or misinformed, don't know any better and a some of them even end up traumatized afterwards (Which DOES happen, and, if you consider abortion a valid medical procedure, is a possible complication patiens are seldom told about)
KendrixTermina 2 months ago
@2violets Also, it's not like anyone can decide what they feel and if she feels sad and cheated, then she feels sad and cheated.peroid. If you're suggesting ANYONE who isn't a crazy dictator, racist or mass muderer deserves something as horrible as a misscarriage happening to them, you must be a heartless punk. I don't know much about Christianity since I decided I was through with it a long time ago, but isn't there that one passage about not having vengeful thoughts and forgiveness?
KendrixTermina 2 months ago
@2violets "Turn the other cheek" "hate the sin, not the sinner" and similar stuff...? I think you should REALLY reconsider if you have the right to call anyone a hypocrite.
KendrixTermina 2 months ago
nice.
wiigoldlion 6 months ago
I love how she kind of has vampire teeth ;)
lovelylady525 6 months ago 4
Wow. That video was amazing. I loved the song before, but now I also love the video.
ggboot 6 months ago 2
Tori, I LOVE YOU!!!! thank you.
mzeeriebella 6 months ago
wow..beautiful song and video
lunaria86 6 months ago
POR FIN: ARTE!!!!
josepgrifollcasas 6 months ago
huh...and Ive always wondered why there was a double person in the car. I (think) I get it now.
KimIsMissing 6 months ago
Wow. That. was. AMAZING!! Bravo! I am just now finding this woman and I am already addicted!
rflmywfl1 6 months ago
does this remind anyone of AMC's the Killing?
sietepeaches 7 months ago
I won a national kiteflying championship on the strength of this song and a flawless performance.
ericmathewallen 7 months ago
i too lost a baby halfway through pregnancy...i feel this song on a very different level... bless all the "little angels" and the families trying to cope with such devastation...u are not alone.
jerzygrr1 7 months ago
I think Tori's work is interesting and poetic, but it never ceases to amaze me how uncultured the masses are!
jonninyc 7 months ago 2
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best video!♥♥♥♥♥
jokersovi 7 months ago
wow you really don't understand tori amos... thats sad... how many of you have been to her concerts
Lovjoy84 7 months ago
"she's convinced she could hold back a glacier but she couldn't keep Baby alive"
Is just absolutely heart-breaking !
Bluzme 7 months ago 51
@Bluzme I had to point out what that meant to my male friend and huge Tori fan who did not understand the implication!
Trund27 5 months ago
@Bluzme god..i mc in 09...i had two other babies..full term...all was good...broke my dang heart..
fireferryable 3 months ago
What a beautiful melody... I love this song.
RedSam1985 7 months ago
(cont'd) This concept is reflected in Cruel by Tori from the same album. She says "I don't know why" throughout the song. Saying that she doesn't know why those angels don't come to save when you need them most.
antuonchris 7 months ago 2