Tori Amos "Tear In Your Hand" lyrics

[@stevenwasserman9729]

Songs from Tori are like secret whispers from her to her audience... intimate, personal, resonating and here's the real secret... she sings of secrets we didn't know we had yet.

[@victoriandorian8730]

still gives me chills after 20+ years...

[@EricPudalov]

You too? I thought I was the only one!

[@vinvass2674]

It's all of us. First heard this is 1991. Just got the same feeling playing it today in 2018.

[@deanroddey2881]

Same with me. I was in the video store (remember those?) and saw this VHS tape with a striking picture on the front (her at that white piano) and I picked it up and took it home and was blown away. It was a collection of live and video performances. I went out immediately to the music store (remember those?) and bought the CD and absolutely loved it. That album, for whatever reason, is one of those from that time (of a huge mass of amazing music, can someone please invent a freaking time machine?) that just gives me the chills every time. I remember I bought another copy of the VHS tape and sent it to some friends on the other side of the country. A few days later they called me, having just watched it, and were saying thank you for sending us that, it was amazing.

[@tarinzuk6661]

Totally concur, still breathtaking after all these years xx

[@lolashowme]

And at the end of 20 this song still haunts me

[@Picnicl]

I was 14 when this album came out in 1992. I'm a straight male but I was a particularly sensitive one then. It blew me away. It's the best debut album ever to me, better even than The Kick Inside. Listening to this album in a pre-internet cold winter in England, this beautiful yet often kind of extremely culturally polarised country, was simply the most bittersweet experience. It was actually intensely magical, because life is literally magical - logically, it makes more sense that nothing should exists than that anything exists. The little earthquakes that caused life at all are doomed or blessed to be in us all too.

[@obeyvirtues]

41 comments and nobody has quoted this, o.k. I'll do it. "there's pieces of me you've never seen... Maybe she's just pieces of me you've never, seen." .... Absolutely brilliant.

[@maryambellydance]

Oh yes!!!❤

[@jordan84]

Brilliant line that has resonated with me since the first time I ever heard it.

[@geminimoon6221]

Yep.. gut wrenching line

[@tlb1188]

Brilliant !!!.Goosebumps every time I hear this song💜

[@verbavolant6895]

😥😥😥

[@audreyhorne75]

This song hasn't aged a second...still as heart-wrenchingly perfect as it was when I first heard it at age 16. I wouldn't change a note.

[@igg3937]

Literally one of the greatest songs ever written and recorded. Pure genius.

[@DarkMadamX83]

@@igg3937 she gave us such plentiful gifts

[@vaiman7777]

Tori is a musical genius.

[@eleventydots]

This is my favorite Tori song. It's the saddest song I've ever heard. It breaks my heart every time I hear it. She perfectly captures the emotions and thoughts of what it's like to be dumped, the heartache of being replaced

[@sonoGolaSS]

+Steve Niehaus same here

[@vinvass2674]

You just know she was THERE when she came up with these words, the black of the blackest ocean. How many people hearing this have been able to relate to that at some time? Like how Van Gogh said his medium was light itself, in this kind of song, Tori's medium is emotion itself. Pure art, pure genius.

[@wmp3346]

Great song

[@RachelMulwee]

@@vinvass2674 👏 beautifully said. I haven't heard this song in like twenty years, and it just hit me like a ton of bricks. Instant weeping when the song started and all the memories of youth came flooding in so quick.

[@kkliciousbaby]

❤️

[@cmcgrew98]

It's weird how sad this song is, and yet how positive it seems to sound.

[@igg3937]

There's a quiet defiance to it for sure, a sort of acceptance that "this is life" with all its ups and downs.

[@Picnicl]

I'm not easily given to hyperbole - I love Kate Bush, Pink Floyd, John Lennon, etc etc but if I could choose only 1 song to be the most perfect blend of dynanism, sadness, and even humour, Tear in Your Hand is it. "I don't believe you're leaving because me and Charles Manson like the same ice cream" is actually my favourite line of ANY song. It's so amusing and so bitterly 'are you kidding me?' to the person she's saying it to, followed by the hurt of 'I think it's that girl. And I think they're pieces of me you've never seen. maybe she's just pieces of me you've never seen'. It's a perfect verse and Tori must have known it, must know it. I would even arguably rate Little Earthquakes as the best debut album by any artist. I think it's even better than The Kick Inside by Kate Bush. But so it should be as musicians have had time to absorb Kate Bush's progression.

[@alanmorton3672]

It was her second album. Her first was Y Kant Tori Read

[@ethyricalgirl]

Alan Morton that wasn't a solo album though, it was a band...

[@bluebell5975]

I couldnot agree more… this is a perfect Song… and i also Love Kate Bush and John Lennon…. Good to know Not to be the only one …..

[@lostinhappyway7490]

♥️♥️♥️♥️

[@johnleighton5913]

I used to play this album on sleep. The emotional rocking track towards the end made me sit up. My all time favorite by her, and I'm not suffering any unrequited love. It's just a great song.

[@matthewlong9436]

This is the most beautiful song every written.

[@spunout6686]

Beautiful, hypnotic, I'm speechless. What a voice and talent. Absolute zen.

[@deanroddey2881]

Check the whole Little Earthquakes album if you haven't yet. It's an incredible piece of work.

[@Belljargrrrl]

This song always makes me cry. I feel it so deeply. 💔

[@sonoGolaSS]

it does.

[@ThePolarBearProductions]

My mom got me into Tori in Middle School. I remember I was obsessed with this album. This song brings me back to that confusing yet blissful time in my life.

[@zohari30y31]

ThePolarBearProductions same here!!!!

[@raquelsalian7879]

...played this over and over and over again for so many months...so many years ago.... and it was so right... ‘she’s just pieces of ME you haven’t seen yet’!😄

[@1DomBennett]

An incredibly melancholic and beautifully uplifting song at the same time, thank you for posting this extraordinary video, Ashley Thomas, much appreciated.

[@tinastanley4444]

Tori always catches the cosmic sound and honors it thru her Tori interpretation. and her unusually creative way.

[@the_key_x]

When I have a daughter she's going to listen to Tori from my childhood, like I listen to Joni Mitchell from my moms youth. Love you always mom. xxx

[@jeremynemily]

FC_CT C My daughter just turned 18 and I found a playlist that she listens to in her car full of all of the songs I introduced her to growing up, Tori included.

[@kkliciousbaby]

My 15 year old daughter was just replaced when her girlfriend cheated on her. She found out on social media and I know this song is exactly how she feels. Never heard her scream and cry like that in my life. Of course the same excuse…bc her and Charles Manson like the same ice cream. My daughter doesn’t understand lies and being dishonest. I saw this coming, but she could not believe anyone would do that to someone else’s soul. Even tho she’s 15, the pain is just as bad. I hate seeing my baby hurt like this😢❤️

[@the_key_x]

@@jeremynemily That's so fantastic, shes lucky to have you :) When i was 18 I had a mixed tape with the stuff I loved - Kate Bush (Wuthering Heights was my mother's recommendation), Tori, Paula Cole, Bjork, all the 90's gals and some oldies from my mom.... xxx

[@the_key_x]

@kkliciousbaby that’s awful to hear about your daughter but sadly teen angst is a right of passage. I also cried my eyes out many nights in my youth due to my bf going back to his ex (he was my first boyfriend at 18) so a horrible intro to relationships. How is your daughter doing these days?

[@boiwonder3006]

I found Neil Gaiman because of this song in the 90s. I also accepted being a gay man listening to this album. Thank you, Tori

[@canisfamiliaris401]

This song was a big cultural moment for our generation.

[@birdbath2002]

God bless you. Yes god really loves everyone ❤

[@katherinekass4480]

I LOVE artist Tori Amos! I got introduced to her music years ago! I am adopted and she reminds me of what I would picture my own biological mother to be, very sensitive, beautiful, and articulate with a clarity of Life

[@Ooana]

My favorite Tori song of all time. 🌹

[@davidschiffman2427]

Ooana Trien ,yes it is

[@davidschiffman2427]

tori amos, is a musical genius

[@nehalpatel7851]

Excellent taste, Miss Ooana!

[@deanroddey2881]

I might have to choose Winter, but this is not at all far behind.

[@ismailozay2173]

actually tear in my eye. one of the best songs of her!

[@shawnsweet6468]

tori Amos moves you weather you want to or not..awesome song...

[@katierebeccawilson1636]

its sad and uplifting at the same time

[@sabfitz1978]

my favourite tori song, iv actually bought little Earthquake's twice because I listened to it so much the CD scraped lol

[@sabfitz1978]

+ashley thomas look on eBay ,I got my 2nd one on there or try a site called discogs they sell vinyl,cassette,cds 😁

[@pollysshore2539]

I had this on repeat the first time I broke up with my high school sweet heart (first love). I don't believe you're leavin cause me and Charles Manson like the same ice cream. Think. It's. That. Girl. All the world is danglin', danglin', danglin for me Darlin you don't know the power that you had with that tear in your hand. And the best line... Cut my hands up, every time I touch you. Maybe it's time, to wave goodbye now.

[@sabfitz1978]

+Polly's Shore I wanna listen to it now hahaha ... im in my car, cd in my car, hope the neighbours dont go mad if I turn the volume up lol

[@sabfitz1978]

+sabrina fitzpatrick iv got chills ... its such a haunting song :-)

[@pollysshore2539]

sabrina fitzpatrick BLAST AWAY! It's worth it.

[@wildcliffe4712]

Tori is my favorite forever💕💕💕 she’s brilliant and so tapped in

[@jenniferrobinson1630]

You don't know the power that you have with that tear in your hand!!!!!! Brilliant and so very sadly true!!!!

[@Jenkoko1]

This song started my life long love for Neil Gaiman and Sandman💜💜💜

[@1ManNamedDan]

I was looking to see if anyone made the Sandman connection..

[@shlidgn90]

I got into Death: The High cost of Living from this.

[@Lanaismother]

why do i get so much nostalgia from this

[@77esto]

Still the Most beautiful song! So greatful for her work❤

[@Amanda-mb5sp]

“ If you need me, me and Neil be hanging out with the Dream King”

[@1ManNamedDan]

I was looking to see if anyone made the Sandman connection...

[@emilybarker1586]

Sad and beautiful. Tori is other worldly.

[@ncsteeltoe]

I love her.

[@chrissyhammond9089]

Tori makes me (,for once) speechless damn what a talent!!

[@katierebeccawilson1636]

under rated song

[@petersinton43]

Loved her then,Love her now,Love her always....She soothes the soul like no other.Enchanting as well as beyound beutiful

[@torstenlange6380]

what a wonderful woman, what a voice !!

[@edwardm1326]

Love that she references The Sandman + Neil 😍

[@1ManNamedDan]

🤟

[@carrieparsons7261]

This is a really great video to go with a really great song.

[@namoratlantis9726]

Still one of her best...

[@gerfamar77]

Tori's most beloved song for me... These phrases brake me into tears... All the world just stopped now. Let me take a deep breath babe... I think there're pieces of me you've never seen well Maybe it's time to wave goodbye now Time to wave goodbye now I tell you there're peices of me you've never seen...

[@kylehoward4979]

What an incredible musician she is. The genuine article.

[@VioletFlame-f3g]

_ That black of the blackest ocean and that tear in your hand _ Peaceful poetry.

[@the_key_x]

Update: now 2024. Been listening to Tori for 30 years. Going to give my collection to my niece when she turns 16 (she’s 4 in Jan)… since kids for me now seem unlikely.

[@maryambellydance]

This amazing voice like an angel! And lyrics...❤

[@tinastanley4444]

I have a tattoo tear in my hand cuz of this song. I do.

[@utoobuser101]

awesome!

[@justmissjamey]

I've always heard the skin on the inside of your hand, if its tattooed dont stay long because the dead skin flakes off so much there...my friend has a design on her wrist and had a star on the lower part of her palm and it disappeared completely after 2 years..like it disappeared all weirdly

[@tinastanley4444]

@@justmissjamey I've had it inked several times. Yea but it's still there

[@justmissjamey]

@@tinastanley4444 very very cool!!! I wish we could see it!! My friend names her son Jupiter after one of Toris songs.

[@tinastanley4444]

@@justmissjamey that's awesome. HEY JUPITER!

[@Scorpia161]

i heard this song for the first time probably in middle school on grooveshark because of the neil gaiman shout out--kind of taken aback by how lush it is what a cool rediscovery

[@sonoGolaSS]

love this one vvvvvv much.

[@empathcaroline2586]

So frikkin beautiful! !!!

[@ЕвгенийКлименко-ю6о]

Потрясающе!))Тори

[@Cobberpan]

When I hear this song, I still feel uncomfortable, that period of my youth where I felt low self-esteem and self-pity.

[@jahwobble5214]

Beautiful

[@jenniewilliams474]

Neil Gaiman. He's an author.

[@turquoisesnowflake4613]

Didn't she cover Nightengale for the Amazon show too?

[@FaeSparrow]

@@turquoisesnowflake4613 They are close friends since ages! Neil Gaiman said several times a lot of his writing is inspired by Tori Amos and Tori Amos said the same about him 😊

[@turquoisesnowflake4613]

@@FaeSparrow honestly, as a fan of both, that explains a lot

[@msbookdragon]

Tori mentions Neil in almost every one of her older albums, and Neil based his character Delirium (from the Sandman graphic novels, which are awesome)largely on Tori.

[@fredmila]

Good song, that piano.

[@sbrawsm]

Thanks! Never heard this one.

[@stephenniehaus8635]

The saddest, most powerful song I've ever known

[@rumtuckskatter]

Thank you, Tori

[@kevinc4849]

2022 and still fantastic

[@Bellatocci]

Leaving someone because they like the same ice cream as Charles Manson sounds like the A-plot to a Seinfeld episode

[@mehwishowais745]

Incredible

[@davidz9659]

I love how she mentions Neil Gaiman and the sandman (the dream king) so Neil put the song lyrics in volume seven chapter 1.

[@1ManNamedDan]

I'm reading #41 right now and came to hear the song. It works well being connected to Delirium. I was very happy when I was turned on to 'Standard White Jesus' from the comic in the chapter about the "Cereal" convention. When art meets art the meta gets real.

[@Alaska-fo5tw]

for neil gaiman 💎

[@kinell7819]

My father passed away on October 20, 2020. This song came on while i was grieving for him. I've never heard of it before. And Neil was the name of my pet hamster I had years ago. So now I envision my Pops and Neil hanging out together.

[@sandrajovic7735]

U said it all there, babe.

[@jonathanbenally7184]

It’s Not Only Her Beauty But it’s Her Voice So seductive ❤️

[@LadyofAnthrazil]

❤❤❤ The Best ❤❤❤

[@romanreeder1167]

The way she kicks that piano pedal at 2:38. Not sure that was even planned but they kept it in.

[@DarkMadamX83]

I'm glad they kept it.

[@Manectric7]

Sandman brought me here

[@comicdog5097]

Same

[@SynthApprentice]

Neil says hi, by the way.

[@jessicascharer7133]

Listening to your mix and when Tori came up after the Cure I was like.. Did I make this playlist?!?! WTF? You're my music twin. So random and exactly me. Hello. haha

[@sorcerer1975]

You may have all the power now ... My tears have fueled it for as long as I can imagine ... Not anymore ... I'm hurting now but I can't and won't cry forever ... Goodbye to you ... XOXO KRP ...

[@laurascreamermagazine8211]

One of my favorite songs of hers. Been a fan since 1992. Always was curious about one thing. The part where she says "I don't believe you're leaving cuz me and Charles Manson like the same ice cream" because her now ex Trent Reznor had at one point lived in the house Sharon Tate lived in on Cielo Drive when she was murdered along with 4 others by Manson followers and then after Trent moved he took the door that they had written PIG on. Also, he recorded The Downward Spiral album in that house. Just trying to find a correlation between the two.

[@tashaschneider1419]

This was before she nailed Trent, but there's plenty of correlation. Since they are both witches who will do ANYTHING for fame and fortune, it makes perfect sense that Tori and Trent should have hooked up at some point. Trent LOVES witchy women (Tori, Erykah, Seraphim), and they have been his downfall in life. Tori really thought the murder house was cool, make of that what you will. Also, Tori and Trent pretend to be "sensitive" when they are actually a couple of thoroughly insensitive attention whores. Tori is probably a worse person than Trent is, since she has exploited children for profit ("Raspberry Swirl"). But they are both evil people.

[@grapesoftime]

Tasha Schneider Well now the biggest mystery is why are you on a Tori Amos video commenting?

[@angie-eponuou]

@@tashaschneider1419 Jeez Tasha, lighten the fuck up !

[@ShastaOrange]

You'd think they would have re-painted the door sometime in the 25 years between it being a murder scene and Trent Reznor living there?

[@bartsutra]

I think that’s the point, that there is no correlation. The reason given for the breakup is some irrelevant trivial thing that isn’t even remotely close to the actual reason for breaking up. Sometimes people don’t want to say why they’re dumping someone, especially if they feel guilty for their reason to break up, so they make up some arbitrary reason. That’s how I’ve always interpreted that line, but it definitely wouldn’t surprise me if it had some other meta meaning that I’m unaware of, because Tori loves to use those personal references such as “Neil and the Dream King” to double up as something else (escapism).

[@anitalloyd5697]

LOVE❤

[@kelleymorris6712]

Genius

[@olivertwist448]

The black of the blackest Ocean

[@janknuckey]

...which I always thought was "the black of the black nasturtium". Well why wouldn't it be? It's so 'Tori-esque' to take a garish little flower and make it black, as black as his heart"

[@marionwilson8394]

Does anyone know that feeling?

[@Gurkeboy]

All the world just stopped now. So you say, don't wanna stay together anymore. Let me take a deep breath babe. I remember feeling exactly that when my first real girlfriend suggested we split up. She meant she was dumping me of course. The whole world stopped. It took my breath away. I vaguely remember her coming up with some vague excuse for wanting to dump me - not me liking the same icecream as Charles Manson, but something like that. And when she found a new boyfriend, I thought she just hadn't really seen the real me. If only she had seen those pieces.........(Stacy, are you there?) and that is the beauty of this song. I really think this and Winter are 2 of the most beautiful songs ever written.

[@HammerOfThor74]

Yep 3 years after this came out my gf cheated on me while I ventured on a road trip out west, this was the one song I resonated perfectly (flipping the sex) when I came back and something was wrong, she wouldn't tell me, forced me to break up. Tears... from both of us... then I found out the truth from a friend 3 months later. Powerful, deceitful or secretly honest her tears were.

[@monjeanarquista3893]

Came here thanks to an unique comic called The Sandman.

[@markroberts928]

The music is certainly Endless.

[@whyle99]

The sandman Act 3 brought me here. ❤

[@photodevries7785]

Miss you Pretty baby

[@photodevries7785]

I’m glad you’re getting a better job SHARP!!!

[@felipegoontijo]

lindissimo

[@neilyrob]

Totally hanging out withe dreamking right now. Hi BTW xxx

[@olivertwist448]

Maybe it's time to say goodbye now, Time to say goodbye

[@arturososa4348]

Sandman brought me here, Delerium is breaking my heart😢😢

[@SpottopsNL]

arturo sosa i'm having trouble picturing this song played during a crazy fetish party, though.

[@xiaollyn8778]

I think it's 'that' girl

[@clovrmay3104]

The most brutal and honest lyric in the song.

[@SamAndrew27]

"If you need me, me and Neil will be hanging out with The Dream King." < is a reference to The Sandman. :D Wonder if Tori likes the new show?

[@sarahthomas4463]

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@randicrystall5759]

With that Tear in your hand

[@jlansdale536]

Yessssssss

[@puellamagica3359]

is this a demo or something? the mix is definitely different from the one on little earthquakes... at least the version I own. I'm pretty sure I just have the normal one though.

[@johnrobb751]

Im convinced Tori is a Pleidian. 🌟♒💚🌎

[@faisalsyahreza4377]

Damn, Neil Gaiman have great taste in music reference

[@ljc3484]

Never beg anyone to stay ever again. Don’t take hostages & make them stay out of their guilt. Why lower yourself to stay with someone who doesn’t want to be with you.

[@DarkMadamX83]

Who are you talking to?

[@xiaollyn8778]

Yeah, Neil Gaiman - her old friend

[@jessegalvan716]

King Jesus Lord and saviour of his world

[@melanienelson1148]

In 1992 I was a college girl walking around campus with this blaring in my Walkman (!), pining away over some unattainable crush. "There's pieces of me you've never seen...."

[@leghump]

I was a college guy then... living with musicians, mostly in in Male dominated bands. We were friends with this women song writer who introduced us. You never saw so many guys fall enraptured by a songwriter like we all did when we heard this. We had big speakers we put in the windows to blast Tori.

[@carrissabodine2640]

Don't cry foriegn people. Fry, futurama. Wendy's old fri's 2009, I will never go back to corporate fry's. Got diagnosed with asperger's at almost 31 years old. Glad that I had Tori Amos 2 numb the pain b4 I got fucked in2 this world. Want to share my tattoos. I will not reproduce. I will not put my children through the same shit that I couldn't even handle.

[@mrein7591]

I always will wonder if the ice cream assassin in another song is the same one referenced in this one.

[@katherinekass4480]

DREAM KING......Hey me and "Dahmer" like the same ice cream?!

[@Justwosweet]

Cameo by Ashley Thomas?