Between her underwhelming VMA peformance last Sunday -- lest we mention the evening's subsequent crotch shot -- and this summer's series of unfortunate head-shaving, paparazzi attacking events, one would be hard-pressed to find someone with heartfelt sympathy for Britney Spears. One, however, need not look any further than Tori Amos.

During the singer-songwriter's concert in Melbourne, Australia on September 11, a day when most words addressed tragic fare of another kind, Amos turned her attention to the embattled pop star. "I have a comment," Amos began. "We've all seen it on the news." She then launched into a lilting, if melancholy, improv, singing, "Britney, they set you up/ ...This is what it looks like when a star falls/You're a mother but you need a mother to pick you up/I'm a mother but I need a mother to pick me up."

"You see a lot of women today -- maybe in magazines -- crawling out of cars and thinking it's sexy," Amos recently told Spinner. "[And] for the most part, you don't hear guys going, 'Wow! I am just blown away by that beauty or by that woman's way. There's something about her.' No. Do you know what they do? They laugh. They laugh when we're spreading our legs and crawling out of a car. It's tragic. Ultimately, we demean ourselves."

Amos is currently on tour in support of her latest album, 'American Doll Posse.' Hear the full Britney improv after the jump.

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