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Demo Medley: Fire-Eater's Wife/Beauty Queen [Demo] [#] Lyrics
If you see the Fire-Eater’s wife
tell her I heard what she said that night
what would this world be like
what would this girl be like
without Nasty girls
without Warm words
without little wounds
Saw the Baker’s wife
she told me
‘you gotta find The Monkey Tree’
heyheyheyheyheyhey
she’s a beauty queen
my sweet bean bag in the street
take it
down out
to the laundry scene
don’t know why she’s in my head
can’t figure what it
is
but I lie again
tell her I heard what she said that night
what would this world be like
what would this girl be like
without Nasty girls
without Warm words
without little wounds
Saw the Baker’s wife
she told me
‘you gotta find The Monkey Tree’
heyheyheyheyheyhey
my sweet bean bag in the street
take it
down out
to the laundry scene
don’t know why she’s in my head
can’t figure what it
is
but I lie again
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I see Beauty Queen in a whole new light now that Fire Eater's Wife comes before it. I always thought Tori was looking at the Beauty Queen in a bathroom mirror as they put their lip gloss on. I thought this beautiful girl made her feel a twinge of jealousy. Now I think the Fire Eater's Wife is the character singing both songs. A Fire-Eater is another word for some traders in the financial world I think, and one of their wives is in the bathroom looking at some gorgeous girl, feeling vulnerable and neglected by her husband. She sees this beautiful woman and gets distracted by her, and maybe sees some life or spark in her that has been washed out of her own character, and Tori sees that. It's so moving, even though it's incredibly short. I love it.
I think this song is seriously creepy!