Big Wheel

Ok, I like it too, I'll admit I'm a metal-head and Tori is the only non hard-rock artist I can enjoy, her unique style of music with intelligent lyrics make it well worth to by her new album. Anyway I think this song about relationships and how, well they seem to not go as well for one side and the other side isn’t about to take it, I Think...

Either way it’s great song from a great artist.

I'm thinking this song is about a woman being in an oppressive relationship (how novel, Tori...).The "boy" is not necessarily abusive, but just spiritually abusive (considering her his "posession" and considering himself a "pro") in his patriarchal misogynistic treatment of the heroine. The heroine in the song has been "drinking down" the dude's "pain" but now she is confronting him, serving as one more manifestation of the liberated empowered female archetype Tori tends to embrace in her music.

Similarly, the song could perhaps be a confrontation between Tori and her critics, this "boy" being a sort of personification of them. In the song she states she certainly doesn't "need" their cash and won't allow "shade" to be thrown on her. Perhaps an angry response to the cringe-filled Beekeeper which got ripped to shreds by critics and fans alike?

Somaland is right, this song is about her record company. Specifically, about them not marketing her anymore. She's a recording industry brat, and this is another middle-finger up right at the recording company.

Of course, any Tori song lyrics are laden with references, so many people project what they want onto the meanings.

I like it.

When I started considering what lucian said about this song being in part Tori's response to critics of Beekeper, some lyrics seemed to make more sense: "So you are a superstar Get off the cross, we need the wood"

After only a couple of listens I came to like this song a lot. I'm looking forward to the album.

I think Lucian and Khammers were both spot on.

Another interpretation ~ she talks about having someone in her life, regardless of who it is. She's saying they don't realize who they're messing with, I mean, she's Tori for goodness sake! (music related, perhaps). If so, very true. The critics can go to hell, and while The Beekeper certainly wasn't my favourite album, she's saying a big su-fi to the critics who didn't like it, cause she'll still sell out at every single concert; she's f*ing hot musically, and literally (for a chick).

Maybe I'll let your big wheel turn my fantasy ~ maybe I'll let you alter my perception, my way of thinking/feeling, etc.

At the end, she's saying f* it, I'm hot, this obviously isn't working (musically or otherwise, we'll probably never know).

Drinking down your pain- drinking to deal with someone else's shite, but she's gonna turn it into something good for herself.

Then she says ~ big wheel turn my fantasy. She no longer wanta a part of whatever it was.

You know, I have to give Tori props. Even though The Beekeeper wasn't my favourite albun, she did what she wanted to do, and didn't sell out. Kudos to her!!!

yeah i think she is ultimately singing to a man she has or had a relationship with. possibly critics. but there is a shit load of religious connotations in it and that makes me think..

i think it might be reading too much into it, but does anyone else see the mary magdalene references in here?

she was a prostitute, thus the "But baby I don’t need your cash Mama got it all in hell now"

stale bread- unleavened bread is a part of the jewish passover, the last supper, and then jesus was put on the cross (the cross reference is not much after that)

the gimme 3 (stopping and not going to two or one) could be a reference to the trinity or the idea of mary, jesus, and a baby.

and the milf reference just refers back to jesus and mary having a baby.

BUT... i may be reading too far in. i just know tori has a liking to pushing the religious envelope, especially with mary magdalene

I get the feeling this song has more than one concrete meanings. There could be allusions to Magdalene (heck knows she's used them before) and oppressive relationships.

What I got from this song was a response to critics of Tori. Since it's one of "Tori"'s songs, it fits that the song would be a little bit of a parody of her earlier music and about what people think of Tori Amos as an artist. I don't think that's the complete picture, though.

What does "MILF" mean in this song? Mother-I'd-Like-to-F***? I hope not..