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** Not to mention the fact that it's about Tori's own experiences of being raped.
* "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''...
** Fun Fact: "Winter" was so sad and heartbreakingly beautiful that wrestler Mick Foley, AKA Mankind, used it as a [[Theme Music Power
** When it's paired with [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXcTZWOb6Kg Saikano in an AMV], it's just heart-wrenching.
* "Juarez" is about the multiple women who are raped and murdered in the Juarez desert every year. Especially when you've seen the film "Backyard" whichnis about the subject, and when you hear the line "No angel came..." can just make you want to sob.
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* Tori's "Pretty Good Year". It might be hard for some people to ''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:
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* "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.
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* 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 [[Lyrical Dissonance]] and reinvents the song into a keyboard-based song that sounds like the aural equivalent of corrupted innocence.
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* "Spark" and "Playboy Mommy". Especially if you've experienced a miscarriage. That final part where she sings "I'll be home to take you in my arms..."
* "I Can't See New York". Scarlet (the protagonist of ''[[Concept Album|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.]
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* "Silent All These Years". Listen to it alone, at night, with your eyes closed. That might be one of the saddest but most beautifully sad experiences American popular music has to offer.
* "Happy Phantom" is a funny song about death, until you hear it at the funeral of someone who loved it, at which point it becomes a bittersweet tearjerker.
* Her cover of [[
* "Flying Dutchman", which is a powerful song about being a weird kid and feeling like an outsider.
* Tori's cover version of [[
* "Putting the Damage On" is another Tori song that can really make some people cry. Also, "Your Cloud" deserves a mention here.
* Tori's cover of [[
* "Carry" can cause tearjerking, though more on the Heartwarming level.
* 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''.
* Kind of a mix between this and [[Nightmare Fuel]], but her cover of [[
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