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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:
{{quote| "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" 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.
{{quote| "Mother the car is here, somebody leave the light on."}}
* 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.
{{quote| "[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."}}
* "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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