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Bif Naked (born Beth Torbert June 15, 1971) is a Juno Award-winning, Indian-born American-Canadian multi-platinum record selling rock singer, writer, poet, motivational speaker and actress.
Bif Naked was born in New Delhi to teenaged parents attending private school. She was subsequently adopted by American missionaries. She spent part of her childhood in Lexington, Kentucky, where her father was a professor at the University of Kentucky. She went to Kelsey Elementary School in The Pas, Manitoba for a couple of years. After living for a time in Dauphin, Manitoba, her family eventually settled in Winnipeg. She graduated from John Taylor Collegiate and studied theatre at the University of Winnipeg.
A noted poet, she has also released a spoken word album called Okenspay Ordway: Things I Forgot To Tell Mommy. She is heavily tattooed, getting her first, an Egyptian Eye of Horus, when she was 16. Her tattoos include a symbol of the Tao, Japanese writing, Buddhist poetry and images (such as the Bodhisattva), and Hindu imagery; she has stated on MTV that her favorite tattoo, on her left arm, reads "Survivor." She also has X's tattooed on her hands, which represent the X's drawn on the hands of minors in bars to prevent them from ordering drinks. Bif identifies as straight-edge. She is also a comic cartoonist.
I guess I shoulda known shoulda seen it coming
Read the writing on the wall
Try, try, try to see the good
I guess I knew you could
You're capable of everything
Red flag! Imminent danger!
Red flag! Don't talk to strangers!
Red flag! It's like no other!
Red flag! I'm running for cover!
Red flag! Red flag! Red flag! (I can smell you a mile away)
Your smile belies what you mean
Nothings what it seems
You are playing tricks on me
Try, try, try as usual to keep my cup half full
You empty me completely
This road of indifference
This is an offence
I am dummb and I am deaf
"Fly fly fly away, Clarice" is ringing in my ears
I always outrun my fear
Red flag! Imminent danger!
Red flag! Don't talk to strangers!
Red flag! It's like no other!
Red flag! I'm running for cover!
Red flag! Red flag! Red flag! (smelss like fear)
Red flag! Imminent danger!
Red flag! Don't talk to strangers!
Red flag! It's like no other!
Red flag! I'm running for cover!