Beauty Queen/Horses Lyrics

Lyric discussion by MorganLafayet 

Cover art for Beauty Queen/Horses lyrics by Tori Amos

Horses = heroin = drug = love. Love may literally function as a drug. That song, I believe, is about her falling in love with someone and becoming addicted, a junkie to the person she is in love with (that's why horses, heroin), but she does not contact him, though she thinks he might be interested: "And I would if you would but you never would"; "Maybe you find me... and maybe together we..."; "You showed me the meadow..." - a place where it could work out for them. "I chased down your ..." - she watched him, etc. "Then opened my hands and they were empty then" - it was not happening. "Counting your bees" and "Camera is rolling" might describe them meeting, flashing eyes and stuff and it might be so easy, but it' not. "And if there is a way to find you I will find you" - she'd love to contact him somewhere, somehow. But then she's back to the idea that she is on junk, fighting demons, and maybe it'll stay like that. BUT MAYBE NOT! :)