What does The Beekeeper mean?

Tori Amos: The Beekeeper Meaning

Tagged: Death [suggest]
Album cover for The Beekeeper album cover

The Beekeeper Lyrics

Flaxen hair blowing in the breeze
It is time for the geese to head south
I have come with my mustard seed
I cannot accept that she will be taken from me

"Do you know who I am" she said
"I'm the one who taps you on the shoulder when it's...

  1. anonymous
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    May 24th 2022 !⃝

    this song is a meditation of what it means to lose someone. She is talking about the death of someone close to her. She is having a discussion with a psychopomp.


    "I am the one who taps you on the shoulder when it's your time."
    The Beekeeper represents the Divine, deciding how the Hive, the One who decides when bees are culled.


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