Tori Amos - Mother (lyrics)

Here is my lyric video for Tori Amos' song, Mother! I -do not- own this song or any of the images used in the video.

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[msbookdragon]

I saw her in '96 and when she played this song I wept the whole time. I was in the 6th row and she looked over and gave me a little nod. It was a moment and a performance I will treasure for the rest of my life

[ThePolarBearProductions]

Memories of listening to this with my mom 10 years ago. She loves this album and got me into it. I would listen to this on my iPod Nano all the time and this and Winter and Little Earthquakes was one of my favorites.

Years will go by, but I will still come back to this album and this song.

[MsSwthrt]

I always had a very complicated relationship with my mother, these lyrics speak to me in a special way.

[liz]

I loved this song a a teen now i’m 36 and decided to listen to Tori. I’m nearly bawling now that I experienced life . 😢

[jill]

Me walking around in 1994 listening to this like, finally someone who understands.

[teaganblackburn]

Spring of 8th grade - got the cassette tape home after listening to the first side in the car with my parents on the way home from the mall. It was the first and the only song I cried to during the very first listen. I knew this was going to be a special song for me for the rest of my life. I'm an only child and I could only imagine how much like mourning it would be when I became an adult and the day of leaving would arrive. It came. Then time whipped forward, my mother got sick with Parkinson's and is still here but in many ways long gone. The breadcrumbs are lost indeed, my whole past life in another state is long over and gone, now I am in this new life. I still have my parents but I rue the day when I must say goodbye.

[ironicly__iconic]

I haven't heard this for years and now I'm in tears. 💞

[lesleystocks]

One of my favourite songs . Here for it may 2022 ❤️

[ShanghaiMouth]

This song makes me think about young women forced into marriages without consent. Happens every day around the world. "Mother" brings that reality into brutal relief. "Go go now out of the nest" "it's time" "be a good soldier." The fear. "Maybe he'll leave a light on..." The loss of identity. When you're a girl in many countries, including China where I currently live, marriage means leaving your family and joining your husband's.. "He's gonna change my name, " "I can remember where I come from, " "breadcrumbs lost under the snow." Girls leaving their mothers and sisters, not being able to find their way home, all over the world. Right now. It's so brave for Tori to take on a topic like that in such a raw way, and also it's dumb something so obviously important seems "brave." I'm producing an all-female version of Romeo & Juliet, and this song just feels so Juliet. Forced into marriage with Paris and forbidden to choose her husband for herself. Crushing.

[Earwithfoot]

On my wedding day, right before my husband and I left, my mother hugged me and told me she’d always leave the light on for me… She introduced me to Tori. When we had nothing else in common we had her. Now we have so much in common and I’m very thankful. ❤

[thiagoj]

Absolutely beautiful, tori amos.
I'm leaving the light on for my sister just in case

[JustinElkinsII]

I'm a writer and many of my characters are female. Tori helps put me ever closer to that side of me so that I can find their strength and weaknesses alike. She's an amazing emotionalist acrobat!

[lynnflynn]

this song touches me in all sorts of places!

[willaorwonti]

I became a fan of Tori from my older sister. Thank you Amy

[itisthefear]

i walked into your dream and now I've forgotten how to dream my own dream

[brendahaus]

i don't know why this song struck a chord with me just now, i've listened to it a million times before. but those lyrics!

[tkgrzot]

This song makes me cry ahhhh its too good 💕

[tonysproule]

One of her most powerful tracks...Part Charlie Brown, Mother the car is here, still gets me after all these years..

[crucifyrobinhood]

In 2005 I listened to this in my headgear while snorkeling Forsythe Creek in Norcal, counting tiny salmon and steelhead. Surreal.

[lucascantanhede]

How beautiful, magistic and poweful 😮😢