Thread by @GeePawHill

Of course, having shared Va's tear-swallower from "Little Earthquakes", I might as well share mine, too.

Here's Tori Amos again, from her '92 debut album. "Silent All These Years".

The opening verse alone.

"Excuse me but can I be you for a while? My dog won't bite if you sit real still, I got the anti-christ in the kitchen yelling at me again. Yeah I can hear you."

You understand, I wasn't fifteen, I was thirty-two, she twenty-nine.

"But what if I'm a mermaid, in these jeans of yours with her name still on them?"

I'd just play it over and over again on the headphones so no one knew.