Me and a Gun
Music and Lyrics by: Tori Amos
Instrumentation: Vocal (a capella)
Brief Summary: In one of her most heart-wrenching, powerful, beautiful, and empowering songs, Tori Amos’ “Me and a Gun” tells the story of the rape she endured in her early 20s.
Tori’s Comments: (from a Washington Post article) “I don’t talk about the details because I can’t, but it’s freeing to sing that song [Me And A Gun]. I have to go in a trance to sing it. … It gets exhausting singing it. But there’s so much going on that nobody talks about, and I just found that out with myself after so many years of not talking.”
Fan Comments/Interpretations: In discussing “Me and a Gun” most Tori fans simply applaud Tori for her bravery, her survivalist attitude, and her willingness to open herself up to these feelings whenever she sings this song, just so that others might heal from it.
China2Ny’s Comments: “Me and a Gun” creates a myriad of emotions for me, pride in my favorite person in the world, happiness that she has found solace, sadness for her plight, and enraging anger at whoever that person was that did that to her.
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