Honey

"This is my favorite song from Under The Pink. Um, but the thing is, it's not on Under The Pink because it got kicked off at the last minute in mastering 'cause I'm such a dang-a-lang! Anyway, she's my favorite and it's like, ya know...(sigh)" Tori Amos

this part refers to oral sex, the cowboy type she's fallen for likes it when she keeps her shoes on during it.

This refers to her cowboy type she's fallen for being used to her honey (how she tastes down there and wanting to try other womens honey and see if its sweeter, how he now wants to explore).

This part if about her saying she'd have left him except for the fact that she was a better person and better for him than this new honey pot side dish he'd been sipping from on the side. Then she goes on to say, once her and this cowboy guys relationship was officially dead, she wanted answers anyway she could find them ...she'd go to any lengths necessary, even bribing this new honey pot he'd left her for (the new honey pot is the undertake she's referring to) ...Because she really was convinced she was better for him and guess she thought he'd come around and figure that out.

She's eventually realizes she's better off without him, and says don't bother coming down to see me, don't visit, I am doing fine without you now and things are looking up for me, blue skies ahead. Don't bother coming to see me anymore, don't even, I know you like to keep your babies tight with you and all but not this one, no longer am I one of your babies, I want no parts of you anymore. No longer am I your baby honey pie, so beat it buster.

I do think it's perhaps about a man straying, and she's saying he strayed because he's bored of her; too used to her honey (could be a metaphor for many things...sexual, perhaps, yes'..) 'i could leave your world if she was the better girl' does back up this interpretation - he's cheating on her with someone she thinks doesn't compare to her...

i reckon the 'cowgirls ride on the indian side' is, well ,her kind of saying girls take the 'indian side', as she herself is sympathetic to it being of american-indian heritage, and also maybe kind of saying women have more sympathetic qualities than men? because of the ways americans treated the american-indians, savagely...just a guess.

I believe the main meaning of this song has to do with an affair. Reason I have concluded this stanza: (And I think I could leave your world, If she was the better girl. So when we died I tried to bribe the undertaker. 'Cause I'm not sure what you're doin' or the reasons.) this section here is the most telling. She's saying she'd leave his world if the girl he's actually with (married too or living with) was believed by her to be the better girl for him. Also she's saying their original lust/passion may have died a long the way, so she's getting desperate to keep the relationship going someway/ somehow.

The song essentially is about that their affair that has been going on for sometime and she fears he may leave her all together, cause he's used to her sweetness & love/sex so much so they she worries he's grown bored with it. She's accommodating to him (as the other women) and fears he's taking advantage of her always being there for him love/sex wise.

This is about not being appreciated, realising that the person you care about doesn't really care anymore, and finally realising that you're different people and it's time to say goodbye.

This song is about sex. Going down on a woman. "you're just to used to my honey"

"sometimes I can hold my tongue, sometimes not, when you just skip-to-loo, my darlin', and you know what you're doin' - so don't even..."

It's about a man and woman's relationship that is falling apart. Maybe they are friends "with benefits" ... and the realationship is becoming stale. They are bored and used to each other. Maybe they are having an affair and the woman realizes that it won't work anymore.

Just what I think.

This song is about sex. Going down on a woman. "you're just to used to my honey"

"sometimes I can hold my tongue, sometimes not, when you just skip-to-loo, my darlin', and you know what you're doin' - so don't even..."

It's about a man and woman's relationship that is falling apart. Maybe they are friends "with benefits" ... and the realationship is becoming stale. They are bored and used to each other. Maybe they are having an affair and the woman realizes that it won't work anymore.

Just what I think.

What does the part about 'but cowboys know that cowgirls ride on the Indian side' mean?

A standout song, and slightly cryptic like most of Tori's are. All I was able to find Tori say about the song was that it was her favorite from Under the Pink although it's "getting great status as a b-side". "Honey" could just be referring to her good qualities, to those traits in a person you become so used to that you don't want to leave them.

"and I think I could leave your world, if she was the better girl. so when we died I tried to bribe the undertaker. 'cause I'm not sure what you're doin' or the reasons."

Just going by personal experience here... It's a feeling you get when the man you love betrays you with another woman and you're just perplexed and constantly bombarded with the "what does she have that I don't" thoughts.

At some point, you'll realize that said "other woman" is lacking in many ways. You'll say something along the lines of "I could understand if she were better than me/could offer you something that I couldn't". You'd be willing to release the man if you were sure the other woman could make him happy. Why hold someone if you make him miserable?

Bribing the undertaker would be doing lots of things, some desperate, to try to analyze or seek why things went wrong, but you'll always come up with the conclusion that you'll never understand what was going on in this man's mind and why he did what he did for seemingly no reason at all.

A little bit of bitterness with finally a little bit of "someday you'll see what you lost" thrown in.