"Queen of the Bees" - Jack White


Queen of the Bees

I feel lonely when I'm left all alone
I feel homely when you leave me at home
And the witchcraft that you're putting on me
Is a patch on a raft that is far out to sea

Pass me the bread and the brown sugar cubes
And I'll butter your toast while you take off your shoes
The coffee is warm, but it's not too good
Or maybe it's misunderstood like me

Oh, honey, can't you see?
I wanna hold you like a sloth hugs a tree
'Cause I crave you like a glass needs wine
But I'm worried that I'm wasting your time

Let's take a stroll to the end of the street
Put your hand in my pocket so the neighbors can see
I want them to see, I want them to see
Oh, Lord, let them see

You can buzz all you want, they don't hear you like me
I'm a fly on the wall and you're the queen of the bees

Pass me the bread and the green tea leaves
I'll butter your toast while you're taking it easy
My tea needs honey 'cause it's not so good
And who cares if I'm misunderstood?

'Cause I love you like my mother loves me
I wanna hold you like an ant climbs a tree
Let's take a stroll to the end of the street
I'm a fly on the wall and you're the queen of the bees

Archived Palm Sunday 04/10/22

There are three elements to this: Bee symbolism is a long running theme in the iBook from Jane Siberry’s Maria onwards (with “Honey Bee” (iBook, p. 1017), on an album with a geolocated allusion that was analysed in depth). After the encounter face to face with Bono in 1999 (and after being presented with a certain keychain by a certain psychic, which I still possess and which was the reason for the pen name to this tome meaning “all honey”), it became Bono’s analogy starting with “Wild Honey” (p. 1527) and sundry (p. 1542). After that, it became a feedback allusion (“Mine Smell Like Honey” – R.E.M.). 

Jack has also effectively adopted the male arch-type relative to the female one in Bono's context (with honey bee being the female personfication, literally "honey" by name). Three different communications were sent to Jack, all prior email attempts were delivered hand to hand on the flash drive. The email to Third Man Books introduced Bono as having started everything with a single couplet in the song “The Fly”, where he identified himself as being the fly on the wall. This amounts to an arch-typical representation in the iBook’s terms for both parties, male and female. (Incidentally the email with the raven correction was an attempt to management.)

Furthermore the accompanying visual of the full moon backdrop is also referenced in that self-same couplet by Bono; -he continued with the moon symbolism subsequently (p. 818, p. 1899), and it broadened concurrently into being her main arch-typical symbol throughout the iBook.

Also this dance clip was hyperlinked into Jack’s opening letter. Which makes the object and back drop the opposite blue gradient of the video, with the dark blue being the same hue as Jack’s personal flash drive, -besides being the female protagonist's colour symbolism in the book (p. 729. p. 1745). 

Lastly, “the witchcraft that you're putting on me, is a patch on my raft that is far out to sea” would fit the analogy he was presented in terms of deriving inspiration from the universal unconscious sea, which was presented in the framework of the potential God proof and “Ice Station Zebra”. The term I used to describe the dawning collective consciousness throughout Jack’s letter was “hivemind”. It also occurred in a dream in the iBook.

Lastly in the coinciding personal department I brew iced green tea for my family every day and until quite recently had a coffee every morning.