I've been looking for a sweeter side
Looking for a big bloom on a short vine
Looking for a better way of life
Somewhere that I can call home

Spent my time at a peach stand
Sun beating like a stinging red tan
Like the back of my daddy's hand
The only thing I've ever known

I can hear the bees buzzing through the walls
Making their honey and singing their song
They say I work for the queen all day
Yeah, I work for the queen all day
Uh, uh

Sometimes it's a bitter taste
For a motherless child so out of place
I never understood why she ran away
Maybe I'll never know

But there's a light shining through the trees
And a restless hum that's calling me
I could almost be carried by the breeze
And let it take me where it goes

I can hear the bees buzzing through the walls
Making their honey and singing their song
They say I work for the queen all day
Yeah, I work for the queen all day
Uh, uh

Now I'm standing on the front porch
Kettle whistling through the screen door
Little footsteps on the kitchen floor
Pretty soon we're gonna eat

Some things come right away
Some seem to take forever and a day
All I know is that it worked out either way
I think I found a family

I can hear the bees buzzing through the walls
Making their honey and singing their song
They say I work for the queen all day
Yeah, I work for the queen all day
Uh, uh

I can hear the bees buzzing through the walls
Making their honey and singing their song
They say I work for the queen all day
Yeah, I work for the queen all day
Uh, uh