Silent All These Years

Who it's for

Tori Amos sings about years of keeping quiet and realizing she has a voice others never heard.

Feelings it meets

• Masking
• Self-Worth
• Identity
• Boundaries

What it is

"Silent All These Years" is a song by Tori Amos from her debut solo album, Little Earthquakes, first released as a UK single in November 1991. Amos wrote it during a self-reflective period after her earlier album failed, while she was struggling to find her own voice; Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid, in which the heroine gives up her voice, helped shape its idea of losing and reclaiming a voice.

Where to find it

All major streaming services.

Before you start

Heads up: Themes of surviving abuse.

Age: Suggested 13+

All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players;William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act 2, Scene 7