"Silent All These Years" is a single by singer/songwriter Tori Amos from her first solo album, Little Earthquakes. It was later re-released as a fundraiser for the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN).
"Silent All These Years" was written during Amos's search for self (and solo album material) after the failure of Y Kant Tori Read. According to her narrative during VH1 Storytellers, she originally wrote this song with Al Stewart in mind ...
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"Silent All These Years" is a single by singer/songwriter Tori Amos from her first solo album, Little Earthquakes. It was later re-released as a fundraiser for the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN).
"Silent All These Years" was written during Amos's search for self (and solo album material) after the failure of Y Kant Tori Read. According to her narrative during VH1 Storytellers, she originally wrote this song with Al Stewart in mind to sing it, and Eric Rosse, who was producing some other songs Amos had composed, heard it and told her, "You're out of your mind. That's your life story." So she kept it.
In the Little Earthquakes songbook, Amos reveals that writing the song was a slow, evolving process and that the light piano riff during the verses came first. This "bumble bee piano tinkle," as she calls it, is one of the more emblematic and recognizable parts of the song.
"Silent All These Years" was initially a B-side of the first single,"Me and a Gun". The decision to...
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