Tori Amos - Spark (Official Music Video)
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- Опубликовано: 21 авг 2024
- Tori Amos - Spark from the album 'From the Choirgirl Hotel' (1998)
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I'm so sorry that she had to go through what led her to write this song. But she created absolutely beautiful art from her absolute heartbreak. This entire album is intensely fantastic
She had a miscarriage
I've always been a loner in this world, but with Tori in my life throughout my teens and now in my 40's, I've never been lonely.
I can completely relate .. in my 40’s too love this woman
I've always liked her, but I had a few friends in college that worshipped her...and I'm pretty sure they feel exactly the same way. Know that you aren't alone.
Yep. Same.
Ditto on every point- x
💯
One of her best songs. The woman is a musical genius. Excellent composer, writer, singer and keyboard and pianist. One of the greatest musicians to walk the earth. Tons of soul, empathic, dramatic, one of the greatest artists of all time. A queen in rock n roll.
No doubt
Musical genius she is. The higher harmonies are haunting. I've always loved this one.
@Kris F Tori Amos Spark is one of my favorite song
@@brandonmoore7497 Love her and her songs, her songs are so deep from her inner self. Tori is a musical genius her songs are very deep.
It's just so criminal that Tori Amos is not in the Hall of Fame!
@kennygr8ify Definitely agree with you
Not even a f******Grammy
I was the online editor on this video, what a nice time we had, we edited it in one night!
Very effective and creepy.. I can imagine one of Ted Bundy's victims going through this ..
This is a master piece that expresses visually very well the emotions of this haunting and absolutely beautiful song. Thank you so much for your work 💙
Really great choices in your editing!
Yeah awesome job! Love the environment with the song!
@@makemarker looks more like btk to me! Moo is spot on with him!
Tori Amos, Bjork and Enya are 3 goddesses this world doesn't deserve.
Kate Bush, Linda Rondstadt and Patty Loveless too
Fuck yes!
Woow concuerdo contigo...son mis favoritas...
u forgot fiona apple :(
Song saved my life.. Plenty of times
same!
Is your soul saved as well?
@@gabrielpowers766 who what how? Err are you Jehovah's Witnesses?
@@johnbesse5697 No I'm not JW's or any other denomination. In fact most of the denominations I'm expressly NOT. However what I am is a Christian. Totally changed me and my life. Cults, denominations...meh. The Gospel is what matters.
Tori saves My-life daily.
...you're beautiful, btw!
The piano crescendo at 2:46 is the most gutwrenching release.
oh god thanks for this. totally gutwrenching.
this moment in music is perfection
The crescendo of this whole song overall is crazy.
Yyyyyyyyyyyyes. 2:23 - 3:38 ...I cry EVERY. PHUCKING. TIME. Lose my breath.
Yea it’s crushing
I was a teenager when this song played for the first time on MTV. It was a premiere and it came on at an exact time. I was glued to the screen.
I remember listening to this song over and over again when I realized that my sisters were emotionally abusing me and not just my parents. That feeling of freedom because of knowledge but horror that it took so long to understand will never leave me.
I was obsessed with this, my first CD...It took me a very long time to break all my abusive attachments. I feel that her music saved me at occasions and also from time to time, her music left a bit lingering in the dark sort of speak...Either way a structural part of my emotional education.
I always come back to this video, because the visuals go hand and hand with this glorious song. The sheer poetry of survival running like a river in our veins. Tori writes from a place we’re often scared to visit. 🌬🥀
Her music has helped me through so much. My aunt committed suicide during my Senior year of high school. 2 years later, my grandfather also committed suicide and my uncle died of a brain tumor 2 months later. She was a better friend that anyone around me at the time.
It's one of the most special thing in the world: to have music and musicians as best friends and guiding stars!
I'm so sorry. I contemplate suicide all the time. Tears are streaming down my cheeks now. They are tears of strength. You are very strong!! If you ever need anyone to talk/type to look me up!
Oh, in this crazy world we all need to be able to reach up for each other sometimes! It's good to have each other even on the youtube comments, just knowing, we're not alone ...
I understand what you went through. If you need someone to talk to, or if you just want the knowledge that someone out there supports you, look me up.
Me too. When my mother died in her addiction, and when my father killed himself to avoid getting sober. This woman has always been there to give ne strength
God that shot at 0:40 is so 1998. The way it zooms out like that. This whole video just takes me right back to my teenage years.
This song was my life. I struggled with addiction, and while this wasn't my stopping point, this song held up a mirror on my self-destruction. Thank you Tori.
Congrats on your fight!
I’m still struggling… Stuck on Methadone since 2006, can’t get off.
@@mattsheezy5469 i'm rooting for your freedom
My intro to Tori Amos. "Choirgirl" is the first Tori Amos album I heard. I went back, listened to, and fell in love with the others, but this is still THE ONE for me. And the gateway to a lot of other great artists I'd never considered before, like Bjork, Kate Bush, etc.
Miscarriages are horrors. This song magically captured the pain.
I'm 44... and have been listening to Tori Amos for the longest in my early 20's... I've just gotten out of a long years relationship. And I'm alone again, but her music at least always soothes my heart and soul.
Tori is good for this but Kate Bush takes me away into another whole world of hurt and longing.
@@stevengill5931 ... yup I listen to her too 😌
Man, some people not only reach their potential, they reach humanity's potential. Well done, Ms. Tori.
Well captured.
2:24 - 3:00 kills me. Kind of makes me want to climb a tall mountain and scream at the top of my lungs when I reach the top. It's amazing what music does.
Same, only it's more 2:23 - 3:38 ...I cry EVERY. PHUCKING. TIME. Lose my breath.
@@barbiboo I think they mean specifically the music, not the video.
@@johnsmi213 🤨🥴 Riiight...and I didn't specify, yeah? You mighta misplaced the comment..
Tori's emotion through her music and her voice, hauntingly beautiful . Tori always sings about herself. It is a self reflection,.... her judgments on herself. Yes this is about her losing a baby, in misaccarge. She is one of my favorite artist of all times. She makes me feel moved to my core in her otherworldly way. 💞
You are one of the few who understand this song. Two of my four girls had them, and it is a subject that most other women and men do not want to hear about. A mother can never forget the agony.
One of the top 3 best Tori music videos ever
Had my miscarriage this week. Both emotionally and physically the most painful thing in my whole life. I'm 37. It was 10 weeks old. My first baby. Don't know if I'll ever try again. Came here to hear "But she couldn't keep baby alive / I'm getting old". I know the pain will pass but still, I wanted to see the same experience. Hear the same story. I wanted to know that I'm not alone, I have sisters who have had the same experience. The pain in the song is meaningful now. It's so raw, you can cut it with a razor.
We are on our fourth miscarriage. It is devastating every time. I’m so sorry for what you have gone and are going through.
@@kevinkaiser2501 Oh, I'm so sorry... I feel you. I hope things will get better for both of you and if you want, I hope you'll have a happy and healthy baby soon...
I've had 2. After my 1st miscarriage I had my son. Now I have 4 beautiful children. Please don't lose hope. And I'm sorry you experienced the horrid pain of losing a baby. 😣💜
I see it’s an old post and I hope you are coping. I’m going through it now. I was being careful as I knew from my teen years that I’m high risk for miscarriage. I didn’t know I was pregnant until my body started acting in a way it’s never acted before. My best friend is 4 months pregnant with twins and all Ivan think is, ‘how cool would it have been with our children growing up together?’ Doctors estimate I was 8 weeks along.
Im reading your comment a year later... i hope you are doing better and that you have tried again! I never thought i would have a baby and finally at 45 it happened and it i the greatest joy of my life!! dont get age stop you!
One of the best songs ever in the history of Rock by one of the most fundamental and influential ARTISTS of all time hasn’t reached a million views yet?? 🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️
Now that music videos are kind of a thing of the past, this is one I will always remember.
Saw this video once in the late 90s - had to buy the album based on it and fell in love with whole thing. Watched this again today for the 2nd time ever and it makes me sad I never found the social courage to share something this beautiful with any one else. Happy to read the comments and see the shared joy this video brought people around the same time as me in life.
Saw her 3 times live in the 1990's....this song is still brilliant
I love how her concert versions are always different and many ways better than the originals. saw her during the adp tour, she played first half as pip and I swear she could have fronted a metal band she was so good
I got the pleasure of seeing her here in Stl. in the 90's. I bought her necklace that was a circle with a hole in it and it said Raspberry Swirl and I bought this really coll book with all kinds of pictures of her and stuff about her and her stuff about her music and whatnot. She was signing autographs after her show and there was a big crowd. She signed a lot of them for a while. Then she said "Ok,I only have time for one more." I wasn't to far away from where she stood nor to close but she looked at me for some reason and pointed and had me come up to her and she signed my book for me. That meant so much to me. Back then I was going through a bad relationship where I was stuck because of having no place safe to go not even to family at that time. I was also going through some other really hard stuff that had left my heart so broken and shattered. I was so obsessed with her music and style. He music speaks to you. It's real and it's raw and so hauntingly beautiful. I always loved the piano and she sure can play one!🥰 She is just all around magically creative. She is who she is and she's not a sellout. I used to have every single cd and I even had the one's from when she first wrote and recorded but they never were released or something like that. I remember buying one from Vintage Vinyl in Stl. It was a bit expensive but it was rare and I was told valuable because you couldn't just get that anywhere. The kind of thing that only a real true fan buys. I'm so glad the world has her as a music artist and a voice for women. She helped pave the way for other music artists like her that write, play and do their own music. The one's you don't really hear about or discover unless someone introduces you to them or you end up hearing one of their songs on a TV show or in a movie or something like that and the song hit you the right way so you go check them out and you instantly become drawn to them and their music. You are then a fan!😊 I wish I still had all her music cd's but unfortunately a stupid guy I dated for a little while a few years ago stole all the boxes of every cd I owned. It was a lot of cd's. I do still have a vhs video of a few of her songs with the music videos included. I have that packed in a sentimental box of items along with the book with her autograph.😊
She's convinced she could hold back a glacier
But she couldn't keep baby alive
I don't have nor have I ever wanted children but that line absolutely shatters my heart into a million pieces
The very end of the video when the two young women abandon the bound Tori has perfectly illustrated the deep sad emotion I feel today when young and old women vote against all the strong women who fought so desperately for the rights that we barely still have. A million words cannot describe what she captured with this scene.
Yes, I see that interpretation too & I definitely agree. Tori has written and sung about the betrayal that happens between women a lot in her music. It's heartbreaking & something that I will never truly understand either.
It’s actually a brother and sister… they look like angels
100% soul crushing
@@tabragalone but they aren't.so the man,good wearing with expensive clock on arm but...
Can we not politicize everything? Also it's a guy and a girl in the car.
This video, for some reason - its my go to when there is something going on in my life. This video communicates to an unhealed and traumatic place within me, but the video and song both allow this place in me to have a safe place to speak. So I go to this video, when I need to allow the wounds to heal, and the pain to feel. It speaks to places in me that feel trapped, and kidnapped of my freedom. I see myself as the person fleeing from captors and emotional vampires. I see myself as the one who has the strength to fight back, but doesn't have an ally at all times. This video ... its OK to go there sometimes.
Tori has and will always be my musical therapist.
As an actually mental health therapist I salute this message. Absol-freaking-lutely
This is how I feel too. This song is the one I come back to every time I feel super stressed. This and The Waitress.
Same here🤗🥰
This!!
Can we all just talk, in 2022, about how good the production on this song was?
I'm listening to Tori Amos Spark mid April 2022
When I found out the meaning behind this song my heart broke. She's so strong. Such a powerful video. The girls ignoring her at the end is just too real.
According to Tori Amos herself they are not girls but a male and female twins: "Here [the car at the end], these two are brother and sister, and they're in the album artwork, where they look like angels in the artwork, although here they're very much like the Village of the Damned. You don't know what's going to happen to this girl, but she has a will to live” (MTV Artist Cut, May 2 & 14, 1998”
Same. Ice cream assassin still eluded me but I figure getting ice cream with your kid is an expectation as a parent and this supports the master plan line in the verse.
IS THAT KATE BUSH
When my baby died, I listened to this song over and over.
Same. Twice
My deepest sympathy to you. 🤗
Thanks. Did not bring him back….
I remember when this video premiered and Tori was interviewed by Carson Daly about it, and she gave super esoteric answers and basically shut down his more personal questions in true awesome Tori Style. This is definitely one of my favorite songs, and one of my favorite videos.
I rememberrrrrrrr that...always...on TRL...and I feel like, someone like Heather Graham or someone was there too.....
Yes I remember too. Lots of interviewers have no idea how to talk to her. That's because its more of a listening thing with her. However, Roseanne Barr I think did a really good job of appreciating Tori's quirks. Great interview from 98. Funny at times and gut wrenching at others. God when will this woman put on the new record?!?!?
@@davidmenke7552 the Roseanne interview was hilarious..she said 'honey you need to go remedial with me lol'
@@barbiboo Yes! Natasha Gregson Wagner was there too, she actually praised her and "Little Earthquakes"
Tori is a musical genius, her songs are very deep. have loved her music since 1992, her songs can transport you into a new deeper realm of human emotions.
Tori was one of my greatest musical influences in young adulthood. Been through so many good and rough times with her. I'm sure every fan can relate to the peace and strength that our musical heroes lend to us in our darkest moments :)
She really did give darkness an almost magical feeling...... she'd credit the faeries but she was always an unwitting saint speaking the truth even when it hurt and singing her heart out even when it was shattered to pieces.....
Am I the only one ☝️ that found the ending chilling, after surviving all that, Tori only chance was rigid cold- blooded blonde 👧 girl--we all know the type- she’d rather run over you in her expensive little 🏀 sports car 🚙 then get out and actually help someone. Tsk,tsk,oh well, smell you later ? No, I didn’t see her .just a figment of my imaginatiion….:.
I heard this song once when I was 16.
...I didn't remember the artist, I didn't remember the title...
Just the melody and this one phrase
"You say you don't want it
This circus were in but you don't, don't really mean it
Don't really mean it"
I couldn't find it for years, especially before the internet provided the current sum of songs and lyrics.
Now I found it back...
...and it's a masterpiece, as I remembered it.
~ Ravenburgh (Sin Aeternitas)
@Brent Reid Only me ...I AM UNIQUE!!!
Just realized this song is a waltz..love this song
This will always be my favorite Tori video!
+GalaxySpinz
Her music beats the hell out of her videos.
Ya I know, been listening to her since 94 and seen her live 4 times. She is amazing live! But I still like a lot of her videos. She has amazing creative expression and is just beautiful!
GalaxySpinz What were her peak years do you think? I'd say about 90 to 2000.
I would say 80's to 09. I love Y Kant Tori Read and it makes me sad that she is so ashamed of that album. My favorite albums are of course Earthquakes, Pink, and Pele but I also really love Scarlet's and Doll Posse. I am a huge fan of hers and love them all except I really didn't like Hunters. I have tried and tried with that one and I like only a few songs. I have always loved her stuff and have a hard time picking favorites but her B-sides will always have a special place for me. They are my favorites and when I had her full collection I listened to them the most.
I don't think she is ashamed. Shes doing stuff live off it now.
Tori's songs can evoke every human emotion, Love her.
The ending ALWAYS gives me goosebumps. Such a powerful music video.
I'll always be a Tori fan. I'm a guy, but I adore her. She helped me as well.
I have been looking for this damn song my whole adult life finally
It`s hard to put in words just how much i love Tori Amos :) Her music holds so many great memories for me. She`s a powerhouse of emotion and talent!
Sums up our society. Keep driving.
I am sorry for any pain or violations you have had to endure!
StaySafe 😢
Pure classic, vision and in 40's now remember sneaking off on my lunch break to next door. Tower Records to listen to this album when it came out.
Gorgeous video:)
This was peak Tori, saw this tour live a couple of times and it was bonkers amazing
Tori has said the song is about her miscarriage in 1996. Yet she didn't like the directors initial take on the song. She told him she wanted the clip to be about a girl who's fighting. "I really had no idea that I was going to be crawling through a river on my knees in England in the cold, but I started to get into the story and I really believed that this girl, it was about striving," she explained. "She wanted to live so desperately that she would do anything to do that. All you know is this car crash saved her life so the idea 'some things that are really horrible,' yeah they are horrible, but then you move on and then maybe 'wow.' She was in the back of this trunk, the car crashed, her life is saved because of what you think is a horrible thing normally - a car crash - and then she starts to find a will in herself to strive, to stay alive, she starts believing in her ability to get through."
When I initially saw the video and then read her explanation about a woman striving to survive all I could think of was Me and a Gun.
"But she don't really mean it!"
And those loud ass piano keys at the end!
So f-ing great!
MUSIC GENIUS!
Back when women in music were powerful
and demanded everyone see's it as SUCH!
#KnowYourMusicalRoots
#WomenArePower
but *you
but the correct it is : She does not..¿?? not don´t
My first CD ❤️ at 14 years old...
Tori's stories (that works) are very honest. She gets to the heart of matters.
Incredible, been watching this since I was 6. My mother raised me on her music, and Joni Mitchell was my lullabys when I was a baby. Love her.
There will never be another artist like her.
Mimi,you are so right.Thanks
Ikr ❤️💗
Thank you MTV for introducing me to Tori Amos through this video, oh so many years ago.
I love all of the comments from people in my age group (37 to 45) speaking on how important tori amos has been to us since we were too young to even drive! 😏😘😆 it just proves to me what a niche icon she is, at the same time as being so outside of any niche. However, the kids of her generation have grown up with her and developed with her and we hold that VERY dearly to our hearts 💕
She wields powerful medicine with those pipes!
Tori is an incredible musician who is innovative and unique. Goddess!
What an inspiration and brilliant true artist she was and still is..to all the misguided, abused and misunderstood youths and now adults, who still love her. Thank you Tori!
Plus what an original and meaningful video, in the midst of...well what music videos were at that time
Masterpiece ❤️
@Matthew A You got that right
There is nothing , but Tori. I a, without words... I have seen her live twice and have no place in the universe now. Just mind blowing!!!
What an intriguing and disturbing video. So well done and the ending always gets me
I love the whisper in the end
These chords give me chills...
Scrape me off the floor kind.
Luv this song.....Cornflake Girl.
Tori is amazing in this
@Debbie Lynn A Sorta Fairytale
Господи! Дорогая Тори, твоя музыка остается прекрасной! Слушаю снова и снова!
One of my favorite Tori tracks, and one of my all-time music videos.
Tori is a worderful artist, and she has a lot of wonderful songs, but this one-this one is special. i truly think that anyone who doesnt become emotional from this song must be heartless. the lyrics are not conventional ,but you can easily understand what she is talking about(once you know the background, its not hard to find it), the music is dramatic and fills with emotion, and Tori's vocal performance-you can feel her anger, sadness and pain. How many singers can do that? and the video is so original and interesting! when it comes to "Spark" as a whole package- you just dont find things like that anymore.
Tori set the bar for new female vocalist's and all musicians.
I've been a keyboard player for over 30 years, and can come close to playing like her, but I don't think anyone can match her talent
Detroit Marauder. sweet mercury.....and tori is bad ass on the piano & her vocals are amazing
Wow, out of the thousands of post's I've made your the only one that noticed my name matches my ride. Thanks Nick :) 125,000 miles on her and she still looks like the same as she did when I bought her in 2004. Granted, I had her painted and had the wheels milled and polished, but no mechanical work. It is nice to meet a fellow car guy on the net.
Detroit Marauder. hmmmm thank you..from a midwest girl adoring singing tori..since she began..so did I..♡♡♡
Totally relate. I am for the most part an introvert but ever since I discovered Tori, she has helped me feel alive. I can't think of anyone more beautiful
I'm grateful my mom would play toris music for me as a kid really great music so much energy in all of her songs
I remember this on MTV back in 1998 and I was so drawn to it. It was so good going back today and reminiscing
Probably the last days of music playing.
Remember when it was banned from MTV because of the car explosion? I remember that it was very soon after the tragedy at Columbine High School and every media outlet was scrambling to change their "attitudes" toward on-screen violence......
How "far" we've come in the 20 years since...... Feeels like Im listening to Tori ask now: How many fates turn around in the overtime? Bless her......
@@brianthedesertbum Oh I dont know about the american MTV. It wasn't banned here with MTV Europe
This was the song and video that introduced me to Tori Amos. Very awesome!
#ditto
Jose Pena me too! And I loved her since then!
I thank my girlfriend frequently for getting me into this album. For years I knew Tori's name and a couple of songs and always wanted to dive deeper but it just didn't happen for a while. One of my first dates with my now girlfriend of 3 plus years, we were in a second hand CD shop and I thought to see if there was any Tori Amos that might catch my eye. I picked this album up and the art was resonating, though, I hate to judge things by their covers. She looked at me and asked if I ever listened to her and I said "Not really, but I really want to" she asked if this was the album with "Spark" on it and I said "apparently so". She then said it was her favourite album but the beginning of Amos' 'pop' era. I decided to buy it and I just listened to it again for the hundredth time. I love it so much it makes almost me cry. Not that it particularly sadens me or brings up these kinds of emotions (it does, but that's not what I'm talking about) but the tears come from pure joy and happiness from what I'm hearing. THIS is what pop music should sound like. Thanks to Tori for creating amazing art and to my lovely girlfriend for the encouragement to finally check it out.
One of the few songs I recall radio actually playing back in 1998 (I was in high school and was pleasantly surprised MTV and radio played it often)
This whole album....AMAZING!! But this video...it does something to u...as old as ot is...its still...powerful.
Happy 21 to Choirgirl Hotel ! Thank you for saving & inspiring me!!!
Still listening in 2017! Tori is a queen of rock!
I'm listening to Tori Amos Spark early April 2021!
remember when this came out and people were right upset.... in a world of Nikkis and Iggys its hard to think THIS offended people. Tori was the original brassy redhead and I wouldnt be half the strange creature I am now without her in my young life. and she is still divine, as a tree in a Gaiman book and prob still an ache in old Trent Reznor's heart...
Bird Box Challenge before the movie came out. 😅
The song still gives me chills
the ending...lived/survived it
Thank goodness.
Survived what it’s symbolizinf, and to an extent, what it portrays. I was not kidnapped and left for dead, but I was trying to leave a very bad situation in the middle of the night, and trying to flag down a ride.
I heard it for the first time in 2023 and it's brilliant and super cool !!! Tori you are a genius and a beauty
Hauntingly beautiful
Великолепное произведение! Чудесная музыка!
I never tire of Tori Amos!
The meaning of this song is so heartbreaking. Bless her beautiful soul. So happy she has her daughter now.
I remember in 6th grade, me and my sister staying up late and playing From the Choirdoor hotel. Just laying on the floor by the stereo and looking up at the fake glow in the dark stars on the ceiling :)
Mundus vult Decipi that’s beautiful
Same for me except it was little earthquakes and i was in my early twenties.. still she is magical
That's lovely! My little sister and I, the only one that I really lived in the same house with growing up, were too busy fighting each other to do cool things together. I regret it very much. But I hope that we will make a lot of cool memories together now that we are grown ups. I guess. I don't know if I'd ever get her to listen to Tori with me though?
Lol for me it was a bit past 6th grade but yeah dark room colored lights and that sweet spot in-between my stereo speakers full volume and peace.
Wish I had this woman's beauty and talent.
Probably my favorite video from Tori.
Still watching this work of art in 2022
I’m listening and watching to Tori Amos Spark late December 2022
Wow she was beautiful in this video. The music just enhances her unique features. I love her chin!
This is the video/song that introduced me to her awesomeness
i think the cloth she's covered in is symbolic of a woman grieving over the loss of a miscarriage. if i remember correctly, some painters used that in their art.
on the commentary for spark she said the white sheer thing symbolizes that she's protected still. she was inspired by twin peaks the thought that something awful could happen to someone but yet they aren't totally defeated. its on fade to red
+datura1983 : Could be. I am pretty sure that this song was written after Tori's miscarriage.
Hmm... would you say that the single drop of blood on the autumn leaf would symbolize that as well?
The plastic clothing is also used to murder people to avoid blood spill
The whole video is symbolic of a miscarriage, but works for any trauma. You are bound by it, alone, and you have the fight that survive, until the point comes when you need help, but then the person you thought would help drives away or says ‘I get that this sucks, but like, I had a long day at work and I can’t fucking deal with your depressing shit right now.’ That was my experience with renting a room with a serial rapist. She even wrote the song in a way, though about a miscarriage/abortion (I think it can nexts with silent all these years, and I get an ‘abortion after an acusive situation’ vibe, or she lost the baby due to abuse... which I experienced), it works for other traumas as well. ‘Say you don’t want it/don’t really mean it.’ She wanted kids, but not like that, and she regrets her decision or being too stressed to keep the pregnancy going, or being abused and misscarrying as a result, but the same line can mean so much when it comes to trauma/abuse. ‘How many datese turn around in the overtime’ suggests that she is now not bound to the abuse, most likely because she is no longer pregnant, but it still comes with grieving. There is a ‘spark’ of hope, because she can leave, but it still hurts.
So simple so perfect!
Tori please sing more we need your voice more than ever 😇
She's just the prettiest little singer.
I'm with you there!!!!
This song reminds me of my self addiction...been rehabilated but still goes back to where I've started...but now...I've accepted my fate and trying to live with it ..everyday with productive outcome...instead of ignoring it....
Extra-ordinary, honest, pure talent.