History TearJerker / AmandaPalmer

** "A Mother's Confession" is a 10 minute song about all her fears about being a mother, the biggest of which is that [[AdultFear her child will die, and she could be responsible for it.]]

* Off of the new collaboration, ''8in8'', we have "Because the Origami," a duet between Ben Folds and her about a runaway son. Grab a box of tissues, and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAqudu4l-uo take a listen.]]

** "The Ride", a hymn about suicidality, connection, and the absurd nihilism of life being meaningless. It was played on every show on the album's accompanying tour, as Amanda felt she couldn't leave people without having given them the message of it.

*** Made somewhat {{narm}}ful if you know that the sample in the beginning is from [[http://www.strindbergandhelium.com/content/iron.html Stringberg and Helium]], however.

* "The Bed Song". Just reading the lyrics can make you sob.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sW4dwXXX7Q The music video just makes it more so]]

* "Coin Operated Boy". It is about a girl who wants a coin-operated boy because she has grown bitter after several failed relationships.

** On tour, she told the story of her miscarriage - a story so brutal and yet tragically beautiful it can only properly be told by Amanda herself. She follows it up by playing a breathtakingly powerful cover of [[WesternAnimation/Frozen2013 "Let It Go"]], a song that, in the context of the story, takes on an entirely new meaning.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aon0aYvjwbU "Bigger on the Inside"]]. Written after the backlash from "A Poem for Dzhokar," where Amanda talks about the hurt from the aftermath, especially "You’d think I’d learn my lesson/ From the way they keep on testing/My capacity for pain/And my resolve to not get violent".
* "A Mother's Confession" is a 10 minute song about all her fears about being a mother, the biggest of which is that [[AdultFear her child will die.]]

* [[http://blog.amandapalmer.net/post/3448247232/christchurch-canceled-due-to-massive-earthquake This blog post]], written in the aftermath of the 2011 Christchurch earthquake. If Mrs. Palmer's tour was on time, she would have been right at ground zero. The tone, the content, the links to the NZ Red Cross, the poem at the end... well, it can really get you sobbing.

* [[https://www.patreon.com/posts/2735960 Anthony Martignetti's death]]. Amanda loses her best friend and mentor and blogs about it.
** Especially poignant is that her at-the-time unborn child continually kicked during Anthony's final days and hours. When introducing the child to a friend shortly after Anthony passed on, the friend greets it with "Hello, little Anthony." Thus, Amanda and Neil knew what to call their son.
-->"It's a boy, by the way.
-->We found out.
-->It's a boy."
* Piggy-backing off of that, "A Mother's Confession" is a 10 minute song about all her fears about being a mother, the biggest of which is that [[AdultFear her child will die.]]

* "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP00qel_0qs Trout Heart Replica]]" a song Amanda wrote while on tour after seeing a dead trout's still beating heart, at several shows when she played this, the entire audience was in tears.

* "The Bed Song". This troper's never heard it, but just reading the lyrics makes her sob.
** Trust me: As someone who ''has'' heard it, the music makes it even sadder.

* This may be a bit of a given, considering the song, but her cover of 'Hurt' is heart wrenching.

** Named after a CaptainBeefheart song, fyi.

** Especially poignant is that her at-time-time unborn child continually kicked during Anthony's final days and hours. When introducing the child to a friend shortly after Anthony passed on, the friend greets it with "Hello, little Anthony."