The Professional Widow

Slag pit
Stag shit
Honey bring it close to my lips
Yes
Don't blow those brains yet
We gotta be big boy
We gotta be big
Starfucker just like my Daddy
Just like my Daddy selling his baby
Just like my Daddy
Gonna strike a deal made him feel
Like a congressman
It runs in the family

Rest your shoulder Peaches and Cream
Everywhere a Judas as fast as you can see
Beautiful angel
Calling "We got every re-run of Muhammad Ali"

Prism perfect
Honey bring it close to your lips
Yes
What is termed a landslide of principle
Proportion boy it better be big boy
Starfucker just like my Daddy
Just like my Daddy selling his baby
Just like my daddy
Gonna strike a deal make him feel
Like a Congressman
It runs in the family
Mother Mary
China white
Brown may be sweeter
She will supply
Mother Mary
China white
Brown may be sweeter
She will supply
She will supply
She will supply
She will supply




The lyrics are from Professional Widow from Tori Amos. I tend to enjoy analysing a lot of things, I like to analyse song lyrics which I like. I was listening to this song and started reading up stuff about it as Tori is known to have deep song lyrics and I find the lyrics alluring. The whole thing is like a conspiracy really. The "professional widow" is rumoured to be Courtney Love which makes a little sense as some of the lyrics kinda remind me of Courtney.

We gotta be big boy
We gotta be big
Starfucker just like my Daddy
Just like my Daddy selling his baby
Just like my Daddy
Gonna strike a deal made him feel
Like a congressman
It runs in the family

It is like you can see Tori's anger with Courtney here and;

Gonna strike a deal make him feel
She will supply

It has been rumoured that Courtney paid someone she knew to kill Kurt Cobain from Nirvana. That came to mind when looking at the above lyrics after reading into this. I really don't know if it is true that she killed Kurt as I never looked into it but if the professional widow is suppose to be about Courtney and the song is about her that is what makes the song more interesting. Also what I found striking about this song is the connection between Tori and Trent Reznor from NIN. With reference to wiki it said that the song maybe highlights the broken friendship between Tori and Trent because in the song Tori used the word "starfucker" which NIN had a song tilted Starfuckers Inc from the Fragile album. Apparently according to Wiki, Trent blamed Courtney for destroying his and Tori's friendship. It has been rumoured that at the time of Kurt's death Courtney was sleeping with Trent which Trent denies. I don't know if that is even true and to be honest I really don't want to know. It really is a circle and it all connects.

What I also find alluring about the lyrics in this song is the whole thing of Tori going against religion;

It runs in the family
Mother Mary
China white
Brown may be sweeter
She will supply
Mother Mary
China white
Brown may be sweeter
She will supply

Listen to her song, God and perhaps some of her other stuff and you will see what I mean. Hell maybe this is all my own interpretation. It is really hard to know what Tori's lyrics are about as we don't know what is going on with her. I just find this song fascinating in parts because of the connection with Trent Reznor and I will talk more about that in other posts because it really interests me as I am big fan of both artists.