Winter - 2015 Remaster

This piano ballad was the fourth single from American singer-songwriter Tori Amos' solo debut album, Little Earthquakes. The song was Amos' first Top 40 single in the UK.

Amos explained this song concerning thoughts about her father and failed aspirations to Rolling Stone: Said Amos: "The 'White Horses' are your dreams. That doesn't really say it. Opportunities? Roads that you thought you would go down and haven't experienced, and all these potential experiences are gone now. Those doors are closed. And imagination - the belief that your imagination can take you to places. The magical world having gone from your world, which to me there's nothing more painful than that - when you can't access your magical world. There was a moment when I thought I was too young to not be able to access that anymore. But I've noticed over the years that a lot of teenagers feel locked out of that world. They don't know how to get back anymore because in trying to become an adult you feel like you have to circumcise the magical world."

In her 1998 VH1 Storytellers special, Amos explained how the song was inspired by a conversation with her father. She said: "I was leeching off the men in my life; don't get me wrong, they were leeching off me, but I didn't like who I was. So my Dad and I were walking out in the old farm, my grandmother's farm, she really wasn't a nice person. Now my Dad, he's like James Dean or Billy Graham, though there's no real difference there. I was telling him how bad I felt cause of the first album being so bad and Dad said to me - he'd never said it before - 'Tori Ellen, When are you going to accept you are good enough for you?'"