Tori Amos - Spark

Taken from Launch CD No. 19

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Tori
• Amos
• Spark
• Launch

[BmoreBuddha]

@allthingsfeist Thank you. I really needed that. Its just that with the pressure of finishing school and the pressure that everyone else at school is putting on me that I sometimes feel like I can't go on. I really felt like I was at my end last night.

[allthingsfeist]

@BmoreBuddha anytime. if you ever need to talk, my inbox is always there. keep your chin up! <3

[allthingsfeist]

buddha, it does get better :)

[sighyourhero]

Yep, that's why the music industry is in such sorry shape. Musicians have to look like models now, thanks to shallow people.

[silkbreeze]

The raw emotion that just perspirates from the uneasy harmony and the honest lyrics is enough to make this a song that stands out. And Tori's voice is unique. This is one of my favorite songs.

[starsweet4]

awesome performance but i miss the background singing

[rickso12]

I don't see any comparison to kate Bush,they are both very talented but very different from each other-----

[TheBethany1991]

Made me miss Kate Bush...So much more than I was! So Kate! And Yet so Tori, No dis to Tori!

[calmtides]

@funkytown74 what the hell does being a heterosexual male have anything to do with liking her music?

[yesmeetoo]

Weight does not make a true artist.... just look at Nancy Wilson, who still sounds sooo very amazing.... or KD Lang, who has some real pipes!!! ... it should not even be an issue.... If this were a guy, would we still be having the same conversation? NO!!! Tori Rocks!!!

[yesmeetoo]

Weight does not make a true artist.... just Nancy Wilson, who still sounds to amazing.... or KD Lang... it should not even be an issue.... If this were a guy, would we still be having the same conversation? Tori Rocks!!!

[funkytown74]

this is the first tori amos song i ever heard back in 98' i actually bought this album and im a guy. who isnt gay. i see how the parallels between her and tools' music cross since her and maynard are such good friends. the beginning sounds just like a tool song

[BelMagick]

@derailedbicycle In short, Ice cream assassin was a nick name the press gave to a group of child kiddnappers in the 90s who used to lure children to them using ice cream vans. This song is about Tori's miscarriage, so she's calling God an ice cream assassin because he took her baby away.

[derailedbicycle]

I know Tori's said "the ice cream assassin" refers to God but does anyone have any theory as to how she arrived at that particular term? What could ice cream possibly signify in relation to God?

I adore the song by the way and I adore Tori, love the lyrics as well but the part mentioned above was always somewhat of a mystery for me.

[johnnycrit]

Good god this woman is unbelievable!!!

It's hard for me to hear this song without the harmony in the chorus. Still amazing, but that harmony is genius. I just sing it myself when watching live performances.