History TearJerker / ToriAmos

* Other tearjerkers not already mentioned are "Baker Baker", "Maybe California", "Northern Lad", "Garlands", "Cooling", "1000 Oceans", "Gold Dust", "Jackie's Strength", "Yes, Anastasia", "Indian Summer", and half of ''Boys for Pele''.

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* Many ToriAmos songs become tearjerkers only after repeated listenings, which are required to decipher cryptic lyrics. But there is nothing ambiguous about "[[RapeAsDrama Me and a Gun.]]" It is stark, straightforward, and gutwrenching.
** The fact that it's entirely a capella and sounds like she's either completely exhausted or on the verge of tears is what can really do it for some. It's like a haunting spiritual sung by someone who has just lost their faith.

* "Spark" and "Playboy Mommy". Especially if you've experienced a miscarriage.

* "Putting the Damage On" has always been the Tori song to make me cry most. Also, "Your Cloud" deserves a mention here.

** The fact that it's entirely a capella and sounds like she's either completely exhausted or on the verge of tears is what does it for this troper. It's like a haunting spiritual sung by someone who has just lost their faith.

* "Hey Jupiter" is yet another Tori tearjerker.

* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9hjw20vifI Tori's "Marianne".]] It's about a girl (Marianne) whom Tori knew who killed herself. Tori thinks it was an accident because Marianne was very magical and made everyone knew that they were special. Read this quote from Tori:

* "Mother" It's a beautiful and sad song, especially from the point of view of someone in the grip of homesickness. The sense of growing up and becoming unrecognizable to yourself and wanting a tether back to a safe spot.

* Tori's cover of "Happiness is a Warm Gun", with the real-life newsreel audio of John Lennon's shooting, is ''heartbreaking''.
* In her cover of "I Don't Like Mondays", Tori removes the LyricalDissonance and reinvents the song into a keyboard-based song that sounds like the aural equivalent of corrupted innocence.

* "Spark" and "Playboy Mommy". Especially if you've experienced a miscarriage.
* "I Can't See New York". Scarlet (the protagonist of ''[[ConceptAlbum Scarlet's Walk]]'') witnesses a plane crash in mid-air. It has some ''eerie'' similarities to 9/11, even though it was written before the attacks. To top it all off, Tori was actually in New York when it happened. If the song alone doesn't make you cry, maybe a video paired with 9/11 imagery [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGu0EA3Apog will.]]
* "Taxi Ride". Scarlet finds out about a gay friend who died of AIDS. It contains the line "just another dead fag to you, that's all." HarsherInHindsight when a gay close friend & make-up artist, Kevyn Aucoin, died (from kidney and liver failure, not AIDS). Tori made "Taxi Ride" a partial homage to Kevyn after his death.
* Another HarsherInHindsight moment: Tori wrote "The Beekeeper" while her mother was sick in the hospital. The song is about Tori offering herself to TheGrimReaper so he could let her mom live. [[IGotBetter She got better]], but the song got a dark vibe when her ''brother'' turned out to be the family member that died. Tori wrote a song dedicated to him, which is called...

* "Bells for Her". Tori used a prepared piano to create the feeling of the titular bells tolling for a friendship that has been torn by a problem that can't be resolved. When Tori sobs "can't stop what's coming, can't stop what's on its way", it strikes a chord in [[Tropers/SoapMagic this troper's]] heart.

* Many ToriAmos songs become tearjerkers only after repeated listenings, which are required to decipher cryptic lyrics. But there is nothing ambiguous about "[[RapeAsDrama Me and a Gun.]]" It is stark, straightforward, and gutwrenching.
* "Winter". Especially the final chorus, where the strings suddenly drop out and Amos sings in a whisper against a minimal piano accompaniment. That effect is coupled with the lyrics "When you gonna make up your mind? When you gonna love you as much as I do?"... * sniff.* Aw, and it's not even ''on''...

** When it's paired with [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXcTZWOb6Kg Saikano in an AMV]], it's just heart-wrenching.
* Tori can turn any of her songs into a tearjerker when singing it live. This troper found herself crying upon hearing "Hotel" during a concert, despite having never particularly liked the song before. "Hey Jupiter" and "Bells for Her" have made her cry since the very first time and still do, though.
* Tori's live cover of LeonardCohen's "Famous Blue Raincoat" remains one of this troper's favorite songs, but damn if it doesn't make her cry ''every time''.
* Tori's "Pretty Good Year". Don't ask her why, but this troper can barely ''listen'' to this song, it's so powerful.

* "Spark" & "Playboy Mommy". Especially if you've experienced a miscarriage.

* "Silent All These Years". Listen to it alone, at night, with your eyes closed. That, to me, is one of the saddest but most beautifully sad experiences American popular music has to offer.

*** Fun Fact: "Winter" was so sad and heartbreakingly beautiful that wrestler Mick Foley, AKA Mankind, used it as a ThemeMusicPowerUp before matches. Its beauty made him want to destroy everything.
*** When it's paired with [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXcTZWOb6Kg Saikano in an AMV]], it's just heart-wrenching.

---> "This girl I knew once named Marianne, was the absolutely, you know, coolest. She was totally cool. And yet, she didn't have this meanness in her. She had so many other things in her, you know, but meanness wasn't one of them. So, when I was hangin' around her, I didn't need to have this meanness. Basically when my mother said, 'hey, um, oh my god...Marianne killed herself.' The only thing I could think of was, 'Fuck you, mom.' Because, in truth, nobody was really the same after Marianne killed herself."

---> "Mother the car is here, somebody leave the light on."

---> "[The song] was sung from the point of view of the cop who went to the school that day, because I couldn't hold the essence of the person who went and killed everybody. I had to be able to hold something in a structure of women, or I couldn't be in the chair for them. I didn't believe that this [convicted felon] was a "bad seed." So I wanted to create it in this sort of shattered playground world."

* Tori's live cover of Leonard Cohen's "Famous Blue Raincoat" remains one of this troper's favorite songs, but damn if it doesn't make her cry ''every time''.

* "Merman". It's one of her most TearJerker songs, and it's dedicated to MatthewShepherd, a young man who was beaten to death only for being homosexual.

ToriAmos has one of the most devoted fanbases on the planet. This, coupled with her emotional, therapeutic (at least to the [[FanCommunityNickname Toriphiles]]) music equals enough entries from tropers to make a whole page dedicated to T's {{TearJerker}}s.

* Why has nobody "Flying Dutchman",its a powerful song about being the weird kid and feeling like an outsider

* Other tearjerkers not already mentioned are "Baker Baker", "Maybe California", "Northern Lad", "Garlands", "Cooling", "1000 Oceans", "Gold Dust", "Jackie's Strength", "Yes, Anastasia", "Indian Summer", and half of ''Boys for Pele''.

* Her cover of Tom Wait's "Time" is heartbreaking in the best way possible. The verse starting with "Well, they all pretend they're orphans/and their memory's like a train" especially strikes a chord with this troper.

* Other tearjerkers not already mentioned are "Baker Baker", "Maybe California", "Northern Lad", "Garlands", "Cooling", "1000 Oceans", "Gold Dust", "Jackie's Strength", "Yes, Anastasia", and half of ''Boys for Pele''.

* Other tearjerkers not already mentioned are "Baker Baker", "Maybe California", "Northern Lad", "Garlands", "Cooling", "Silent All These Years", "1000 Oceans", "Gold Dust", "Jackie's Strength", "Yes, Anastasia", and half of ''Boys for Pele''.

* Many ToriAmos songs become tearjerkers only after repeated listenings, which are required to decipher cryptic lyrics. But there is nothing ambiguous about "Me and a Gun." It is stark, straightforward, and gutwrenching.

* Tori can turn any of her songs into a tearjerker when singing it live. This troper found herself crying upon hearing ''Hotel'' during a concert, despite having never particularly liked the song before. ''Hey Jupiter'' and ''Bells for Her'' have made her cry since the very first time and still do, though.

* Other tearjerkers not already mentioned are "Baker Baker", "Maybe California", "Northern Lad", "Garlands", "Cooling", "I Can't See New York", "Silent All These Years", "1000 Oceans", "Bells for Her", "Gold Dust", "Jackie's Strength", "Yes, Anastasia", and half of ''Boys for Pele''.

* "Taxi Ride". Scarlet (the protagonist of ''[[ConceptAlbum Scarlet's Walk]]'') finds out about a gay friend who died of AIDS. It contains the line "just another dead fag to you, that's all." HarsherInHindsight when a gay close friend & make-up artist, Kevyn Aucoin, died (from kidney and liver failure, not AIDS). Tori made "Taxi Ride" a partial homage to Kevyn after his death.

* Other tearjerkers not already mentioned are "Baker Baker", "Maybe California", "Northern Lad", "Garlands", "Cooling", "I Can't See New York", "Silent All These Years", "1000 Oceans", "Bells for Her", "Gold Dust", "Jackie's Strength", "Yes, Anastasia", and half of ''Boys for Pele'' are considered this.

* In her cover of "I Don't Like Mondays", Tori removes the LyricalDissonance and reinvents the song into a keyboard-based song that sounds like the aural equivalent of corrupted innocence.

* Other tearjerkers not already mentioned are "Toast", "Baker Baker", "Maybe California", "Northern Lad", "Garlands", "Cooling", "I Can't See New York", "Silent All These Years", "Playboy Mommy", "1000 Oceans", "Bells for Her", "Mother", "The Beekeeper", "Spark", "Gold Dust", "Jackie's Strength", "Winter", "Yes, Anastasia", and half of ''Boys for Pele'' are considered this.

ToriAmos has one of the most devoted fanbases on the planet. This coupled with her emotional, therapeutic (at least to the Toriphiles) music equals enough entries from tropers to make a whole page dedicated to T's {{TearJerker}}s.

** "Winter". Especially the final chorus, where the strings suddenly drop out and Amos sings in a whisper against a minimal piano accompaniment. That effect is coupled with the lyrics "When you gonna make up your mind? When you gonna love you as much as I do?"... * sniff.* Aw, and it's not even ''on''...

** Other tearjerkers not already mentioned are "Toast", "Baker Baker", "Maybe California", "Northern Lad", "Garlands", "Cooling", "I Can't See New York", "Silent All These Years", "Playboy Mommy", "1000 Oceans", "Bells for Her", "Mother", "The Beekeeper", "Spark", "Gold Dust", "Jackie's Strength", "Winter", "Yes, Anastasia", and half of ''Boys for Pele'' are considered this.

** "Yes, Anastasia" by ToriAmos.
** "Winter" by ToriAmos. Especially the final chorus, where the strings suddenly drop out and Amos sings in a whisper against a minimal piano accompaniment. That effect is coupled with the lyrics "When you gonna make up your mind? When you gonna love you as much as I do?"... * sniff.* Aw, and it's not even ''on''...

** Any ToriAmos ballad is a tearjerker. Especially "Toast", "Silent All These Years", "Not The Red Baron", "Hey Jupiter", "Doughnut Song", "Twinkle", "1000 Oceans", "Cooling", "I Can't See New York", "Playboy Mommy", "Gold Dust", and "Winter".
** Tori can turn any of her songs into a tearjerker when singing it live. This troper found herself crying upon hearing ''Hotels'' during a concert, despite having never particularly liked the song before. ''Hey Jupiter'' and ''Bells for Her'' have made her cry since the very first time and still do, though.
** Tori's live cover of Leonard Cohen's "Famous Blue Raincoat" remains one of this troper's favorite songs, but damn if it doesn't make her cry ''every time''.
** Tori's "Pretty Good Year". Don't ask her why, but this troper can barely ''listen'' to this song, it's so powerful.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9hjw20vifI Tori's "Marianne".]] It's about a girl (Marianne) whom Tori knew who killed herself. Tori thinks it was an accident because Marianne was very magical and made everyone knew that they were special. Read this quote from Tori:

** "Mother" It's a beautiful and sad song, especially from the point of view of someone in the grip of homesickness. The sense of growing up and becoming unrecognizable to yourself and wanting a tether back to a safe spot.

** Tori Amos's cover of "Happiness is a Warm Gun", with the real-life newsreel audio of John Lennon's shooting, is ''heartbreaking''.

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