Professional Widow (Its Got To Be Big)

Album: Boys for Pele (1996)
Charted: 1
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  • Slag pit, stag shit, oh honey, bring it close to my lips, yes.
    Don't blow those brains yet, we gotta be big boy, we gotta be big, heh.
    Starfucker, just like my Daddy, yes. Starfucker, just like my Daddy, yes.
    Selling his baby, yes, just like my Daddy, yes.
    Gonna strike a deal, make him feel like a Congressman.
    Run'in in a family, hoh, it's run'in a family... oh... heh, hoh.

    Rest your shoulders, Peaches and Cream.
    Everywhere a Judas as far as you can see.
    Beautiful angel calling...
    "We got every re-run of Muhammad Ali."


    Prism perfect, oh honey, bring it close to your lips, yes.
    What is termed a landslide of principle proportion, boy.
    It's gotta be big, I said, it better be big, hey, hey.
    Starfucker, just like my Daddy, yes. Starfucker, just like my Daddy, yes.
    Selling his baby, yes, just your Daddy, yes, selling his baby.
    I'm gonna strike a deal, make him feel like a Congressman.
    It's run'in in a family, hoh, it's run in a family, hey.
    It's run'in in a family, hey baby, it's run'in a family... eh... ya...


    Mother Mary, china whi-te. Brown may be swe-eter, may be swe-eter.
    Mother Mary, china whi-te. Brown may be swe-eter.
    She will supply, she will supply, she will supply, she will supply, supply, supply.
    Give me peace, love, peace, love.
    Give me peace, love and a hard cock. Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 5

  • Alizarin Rose from MoThis song is actually about Courtney Love, who has always been "controversial".
    It was not long after Kurt Cobain committed suicide, that every Nirvana fan, and practically an entire industry was pointing a finger a Courtney Love.

    Tori Amos wrote Professional Widow and Trent Reznor wrote Starf--kers Inc, and in that video, where MManson makes a guest appearance, TR and MM throw balls or something at a target, or something, that has Loves picture on it.

    At some point Love and Amos had some kind of beef, which doesn't matter anymore, especially since it has always been popular to bully Courtney Love without questioning whty. She just seems wrong.

    Did anyone know that Courtney Love is an Autistic
  • Vidar Freyr Gudmundsson from Reykjavik, IcelandBecause a commenter suggested Courtney Love is only famous because of KC. I just wanted to say that Courtney Love is a talented musician and was making music with her band before her husband was famous. Has made many great songs. And it is unfair that she should have to live in the shadow of his memory. Lets give a woman some credit where credit is deserved.

    Also, a pretty weirds song by Tori Amos. To me it suggests paedophilia and being sold by your father to a Congressman. But I also like some of the other suggestions. Probably this comes from a place of deep sexual desires or strange sexual fantasies in all cases.
  • Melinda from AustraliaThank god Amand Van Heldon got hold of this song. Otherwise I would have never heard. By the time this reworked version came out. No one was really interested in Tori Amos anymore. This song changed that. It's just so good. On 1st listen I figured the lyrics were quite obscene. But u know it's so good. Who cares. Tori Amos has since stated the lyrics in the song is about making it big politically. Where that fits with the line 'honey bring it close to my lips yeah' doesn't really make sense in that context. But overall ...how we danced to this in the late 1990's golden age of Techno. non stop.
  • Theresa from Murfreesboro, TnThis song is pretty suggestive, especially at the end. Took me a while to like this song - really cool now.
  • Marie-louise Fitrion from Toronto, CanadaIt has been suggested that this song is about Courtney Love and her "relationship" with Kirt Cobain. The lines " Don't blow those brains yet, We gotta be big boy, We gotta be big" ring very close to the allegations that Courtney is only got famous because of Kirt.
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