NIRVANA LYRICS
Originally Compiled by: Francisco Fuentes
Currently Maintained by: [email protected]
NOTE: this is by no means a complete or definitive transcription. If you have a suggestion/correction, please email me at: [email protected]
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Extra Special Thanks to: Nirvana, for producing such great music.
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NOTICE: No copyright infringement is intended by this document.
All lyrics by Kurt Cobain and Nirvana unless otherwise noted.
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Table of Contents:
o BLEACH
o NEVERMIND
o IN UTERO
o INCESTICIDE
o UNPLUGGED IN NEW YORK
o RARITIES
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B L E A C H
Blew
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If you wouldn't mind I would like it blew
If you wouldn't mind I would like it loose (to lose)
If you wouldn't care I would like to leave
If you wouldn't mind I would like to breathe
Is there another reason for your stay (for disdain)
Could you believe him when you distrust his stain? (discussed)
Here is another word that rhymes with shame
You could do anything
Floyd the Barber
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Bell on a door ring, come on in
Floyd observes my hairy chin
Sit down in the chair don't be afraid
Steamed hot towel on my face
I was shaved
I was shaved
I was shamed
Barney ties me to a chair
I can't see I'm really scared
Floyd breathes hard, I hear a zip
Pee-pee pressed against my lips
I sense others in the room (Floyd lets)
Opie, Aunt Bea, I presume
They take turns and cut me up
I die smothered in Aunt Bea's muff (Andy's not / Andy's snot)
About a Girl
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I need an easy friend
I do... with an ear to lend
I do... think you fit this shoe
I do... won't you have a clue (won't / what / thought)
I'll take advantage while
You hang me out to dry
But I can't see you every night for free
I'm standing in your line
I do... hope you have the time
I do... pick a number too (too = two)(think I'm number two)
I do... to keep a date with you (How do people date with you?)
School
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Won't you believe it
It's just my luck
No recess
You're in high school again
Love Buzz
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Would you believe me when I tell you
You are the queen of my heart
Please don't deceive me when I hurt you
Just ain't the way it seems
Can you feel my love buzz?
Paper Cuts
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When my feet are tired (When I'm feeling tired / feet are tied)
She pushes food through the door (puts)
And I crawl towards the cursed light
Sometimes I can't find my way
This curtain is spellbound (There's people / Newspapers spin 'round)
So get out if you can (Soaking all that they can)
A cleaning is to fear (A cleaning is too kind)
A good hosing down
The lady whom I feel maternal love for
Cannot look me in the eyes
But I see hers and they are blue
And they cock and twist and masturbate
I said so (I say so)
Nirvana
Black windows a problem (Back when two was a party (two = twas))
I scratched with my nails
I see others just like me
Why do they not try to escape?
But were not the only ones (They bring out the holy ones/other ones/hormones)
They point in my way
They come with the flashing lights
And take my family away
And very later I have learned to
Accept some friends of ridicule
My whole existence is for your amusement
And that is why I'm here with you!
Don't take me away!
You're all (I've found)
Nirvana
Negative Creep
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This is out of our range... and it's grown
This is getting to be... uncontrolled (crude, a joke, gross)
I'm a negative creep and I'm stoned
Daddy's little girl ain't a girl no more
Fuck! Yeah! Drool! Stoned!
---[as published in Guitar World magazine]
This is out of our range and it's grown
This is getting to be gross
I'm a negative creep and I'm stoned
This is out of our range and it's grown
This is getting to be uncontrolled
Johnny's little girl ain't a girl no more
Scoff
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In my eyes, I'm not lazy
In my face, It's not over
In your room, I'm not older
In your eyes, I'm not worth it
Gimme back my alcohol
Give me all your... (live: Still a failure)
Give me your
Love
Fuck
Swap Meet
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They need a lifestyle that is comfortable
They travel far to keep their stomachs full
They make a living off of arts and crafts
The count the seashells to put in burlap (The kind of kitsch they)
They make a deal when they come to town
The Sunday swap meet is a battle ground
She loves it more than he/she will ever know
He loves it more than he will ever show
Keeps his cigarettes close to his heart
Keeps her photographs close to her/his heart
Keeps the business close to the heart
Mr. Moustache
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Fill me in on your new vision
Wake me up with indecision
Help me trust your mighty wisdom
Yes I eat cow I am not proud
Show me how you question, question
Lead the way to my temptations
Take my hand and keep it clean
As I eat cow I am not proud
Easy as an easychair
Poop as hard as rock
I don't like you anyway
Silly little fucks (fox / Sealed in a box)
I'm new
I'm who? (Damn you)
I'm you
Sifting
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Afraid to grade
Wouldn't it be fun?
Cross, self-loss
Wouldn't it be fun?
Wet your bed
Wouldn't it be fun?
Some fear none
Wouldn't it be fun?
Your eyes... Teacher said
Your eyes... Preacher said
Don't have nothing for you
Spell the smell
Wouldn't it be fun?
Search for a church
Wouldn't it be fun?
Wet your bed
Wouldn't it be fun?
Cold and coals
Wouldn't it be fun?
Big Cheese
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Big cheese Make me
Mine says, "Go to the office"
Big cheese Make me
Mine says, "What'd it (I) say?" (live: Bloody Hell)
Black is black, straight back
Need more enemies
Show you all what a man is
Big lies Make my
Mine says, "Go to the office"
Big cheese Make me
Message? What is it?
Black is black, straight back
Need more enemies
She is glue how are you? (glue = good)
Ohhhhh, nice, (night) (right)
---[as published in Guitar World magazine]
Big cheese, lick me, Mike says, go to the office.
Big cheese, lick me, Mike says, women say.
Night is black, shame bag. Evil in the east.
Show you war, war and my enemies.
Being nice, midnight, Mike says, go to the office.
Big cheese, make me, Mike says, wanna say?
Black is black, shame bag. Evil in the east.
She is glue, how are you.
Big cheese, make me, Mike says, go to the office.
Big cheese, make me, Mike says, wanna play?
Black is black, shaded black. Evil in the east.
She is glue, how 'bout you.
Black is black, shaded black. Evil in the east.
Show you war, war and my enemies.
She is glue, how 'bout you? Evil in the east.
Downer
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Put your sincerity (put your sanity, butchered sincerity)
I've got a loyalty (I've got a royalty)
Defending your country (Defend your free country = Defend every country)
Wish away the pain
I've had a lobotomy (Down at the bottom)
Save your family (Is the same little family)
Surrealistic fantasy
Bad boy (Metaphoric hate)
Fight!
All we know is
Restitution
Living out your
Date of future (Daily future / Dirty future)
There's a hope
Please show me faster
Don't forget (Don't feel guilty)
To pass them right up (That's your right yeah / To pass a riot)
(Mass riot)
Somebody says that they are (that they're not / Somebody seved a dinner)
Much like I am
I know I can't
Make enough although
If you go along
I sing your song
Sickening pessimists
Picketing masses
Separated communists (conservative communists?)
Apocalyptics bastards
Rinkydink God (Thank you, dear God / Thinking they're god)
For putting me on this Earth
Being very frivilous (Feel very privileged)
Death in mind (Detriment)
Nurse!
N E V E R M I N D
Smells Like Teen Spirit
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Load up on guns and bring your friends
It's fun to lose and to pretend
She's over bored and self assured
Oh no, I know a dirty word
Hello, hello, hello, how low?
I'm worse at what I do best
And for this gift I feel blessed
Our little group has always been (tribe)
And always will until the end
Hello, hello, hello, how low?
And I forget just why I taste
Oh yeah, I guess it makes me smile
I found it hard, it was hard to find
Oh well, whatever, nevermind
hello, hello, hello, how low?
With the lights out it's less dangerous
Here we are now, entertain us
I feel stupid and contagious
A mulatto
An albino
A mosquito
My Libido
Yay, a denial
In Bloom
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Sell the kids for food
weather changes moods
Spring is here again
reproductive glands
He's the one who likes all the pretty songs
And he likes to sing along
And he likes to shoot his gun
But he knows not what it means
And I say aahh
We can have some more - nature is a whore
Bruises on the fruit - tender age in bloom
Come As You Are
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Come as you are, as you were,
As I want you to be
As a friend, as a friend, as an old enemy
Take your time, hurry up
The choice is your, don't be late
Take a rest as a friend as an old memoria
Come dowsed in mud, soaked in bleach
As I want you to be
As a trend, as a friend, as an old memoria
And I swear that I don't have a gun
No I don't have a gun
Breed
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I don't care if I'm old
I don't mind if I don't have a mind
Get away, get away from your home
I'm afraid, I'm afraid of a ghost
Even if you have
Even if you need
I don't mean to stare
We don't have to breed
We can plant a house
We can build a tree
I don't even care
We could have all three
She said
Lithium
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I'm so happy because today
I've found my friends ...
They're in my head
I'm so ugly, but that's okay, cause so are you...
We've broken our mirrors
Sunday morning is everyday for all I care...
And I'm not scared
Light my candles in a daze...
Cause I've found god - hey, hey, hey
I'm so lonely but that's okay I shaved my head...
And I'm not sad
And just maybe I'm to blame for all I've heard...
But I'm not sure
I'm so excited, I can't wait to meet you there...
But I don't care
I'm so horny but that's okay...
My will is good - hey, hey, hey
I like it - I'm not gonna crack
I miss you - I'm not gonna crack
I love you - I'm not gonna crack
I kill you - I'm not gonna crack
Polly
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Polly wants a cracker
Think I should get off of her first
I think she wants some water
To put out the blow torch
It isn't me
We have some seed
Let me clip
Your dirty wings
Let me take a ride
Don't hurt yourself
I want some help
To help myself
I've got some rope
You have been told
I promise you
I have been true
Let me take a ride
Don't hurt yourself
I want some help
To help myself
Polly wants a cracker
Maybe she would like more food
She asks me to untie her
A chase would be nice for a few
Polly says her back hurts
And she's just as bored as me
She caught me off my guard
It amazes me, the will of instinct
Territorial Pissings
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When I was an alien, cultures weren't opinions
Never met a wise man, if so it's a woman
Just because you're paranoid
Doesn't mean they're not after you
Gotta find a way to find a way when I'm there
Gotta find a way - a better way -
I had better wait
Drain You
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One baby to another said,
I'm lucky to have met you
I don't care what you think
Unless it is about me
It is now my duty to completely drain you
A travel through a tube
And end up in your infection
Chew your meat for you
Pass it back and forth in a passionate kiss
From my mouth to yours because I like you
With eyes so dilated,
I've became your pupil
You've taught me everything
Without a poison apple
The water is so yellow, I'm a healthy student
Indebted and so grateful -
Vacuum out the fluids
Sloppy lips to lips
You're my vitamins because I'm like you
Lounge Act
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Truth covered in security
I can't let you smother me
I'd like to but it wouldn't work
Trading off and taking turns
I don't regret a thing
And I've got this friend, you see
Who makes me feel and I
Wanted more than I could steal
I'll arrest myself, I'll wear a shield
I'll go out of my way to prove I still
Smell her on you
Don't tell me what I wanna hear
Afraid of never knowing fear
Experience anything yoy need
I'll keep fighting jealousy
Until it's fucking gone
I'll go out of my way to make you a deal
We've make a pact to learn from who
Ever we want without new rules
We'll share what's lost and what we grew
They'll go out of their way
To prove they still
Smell her on you
Stay Away
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Monkey See, monkey do
I don't know why I'd rather be deal than cool
Every line ends in rhyme
Less is more, love is blind
Stay away
Give an inch, take a smile
Fashion shits, fashion style
Throw it out and keep it in
Have to have poison skin
Stay away
God is gay, burn the flag
On A Plain
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I'll start this off without any words
I got so high that I scratched 'til I bled
I love myself better than you
I know it's wrong so what should I do?
The finest day that I ever had
Was when I learned to cry on command
I'm on a plain
I can't complain
My mother died every night
It's safe to say don't quote me on that
The black sheep got blackmailed again
Forgot to put on the zip code
Somewhere I have heard this before
In a dream my memory has stored
As a defense I'm neutered and spayed
What the hell am I trying to say
It is now time to make it unclear
To write off lines that don't make sense
One more special message to go
And then I'm done then I can go home
Something In The Way
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Underneath the bridge
The tarp has sprung a leak
And the animals I've trapped
Have all become my pets
And I'm living off of grass
And the drippings from the ceiling
But it's ok to eat fish
Cause they haven't any feelings
Something in the way
Endless Nameless
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---[Interpretation 1]
Silence
Here I am
Here I am
Silent
Bright and clear
It's what I am
I have
Died
uhhhh
Death
With violence
Excitment
Right here
Died
Go to hell
Here I am
Right here
Ow
No mas
Death
Is what I am
Go to hell
Go to jail
In back of that
Crime
Here I am
Take a chance
Dead
Die
---[Interpretation 2]
Silence, here I am
I am, silence
Bright and clear, it's what I am
Silence, I am
Mother, Father (Mother, come on; Father, come on) 7/23/93
Father, Mother
Death and violence
Excitement, I am
Dyin', lyin'
Dyin', go to hell -- aaoohh!
Mother, no mas
No mas, Mama
Still, silence
I am, hurt again
Imagine that, crime
Here I am, (chargin')
Dead
Die
I N U T E R O
Serve the Servants
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Teenage angst has paid off well
Now I'm bored and old
Self-Appointed judges judge
More than they have sold
If she floats than she is not
A witch like we had thought
A down payment on another
One at salem's lot
Serve the servants - Oh no
That legendary divorce is such a bore
As my bones grew they did hurt
They hurt really bad
I tried hard to have a father
But instead I had a dad
I just want you to know that I
Don't hate you anymore
there is nothing I could say
that I haven't thought before
Serve the servants - oh no
That legendary divorce is such a bore
Scentless Apprentice
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Like most babies smell like butter
his smell smelled like no other
he was born scentless and senseless
he was born a scentless apprentice
Go away - get away, get away, get a-way
every wet nurse refused to feed him
electrolytes smell like semen
I promise not to sell your perfumed secrets
there are countless formulas for pressing flowers
I lie in the soll and fertilize mushrooms
Leaking out gas fumes are made into perfume
You can't fire me because I quit
Throw me in the fire and I won't throw a fit
Heart-Shaped Box
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She eyes me like a pisces when I am weak
I've been locked inside your Heart-Shaped box for a week
I was drawn into your magnet tar pit trap
I wish I could eat your cancer when you turn back
Hey
Wait
I've got a new conplaint
Forever in debt to your priceless advice
Hate
Haight
I've got a new complaint
Forever in debt to your prieless advice
Hey
Wait
I've got a new complaint
Forever in debt to your priceless advice
Meat-eating orchids forgive no one just yet
Cut myself angel's hair and baby's breath
Broken hymen of your highness I'm left black
Throw down your umbilical noose so I can climb right back
Rape Me
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Rape me
Rape me my friend,
Rape me,
Rape me again.
I'm not the only one
Hate me,
Do it, and do it again.
Waste me,
Rape me, my friend.
My favorite inside source,
I'll kiss your open sores,
Appreciate your concern
You'll always, stink, and burn.
Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge On Seattle
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It's so relieving to know that you're leaving as soon as you get paid
It's so relaxing to hear you're asking wherever you get your way
I's so soothing to know that you'll sue me
This is starting to sound the same
I miss the comfort in being sad
In her false withness, we hope you're still with us
To see if they gloar or drown
Our favorite paitent, A display of patience,
Disease-covered Puget Sound
She'll come back as fire, to burn all the liars,
And leave a blanket of ash on the ground
Dumb
----
I'm not like them
But I can pretend
The sun is gone
But I have a light
The day is done
But I'm having fun
I think I'm dumb
or maybe just happy
Think I'm just happy
my heart is broke
But I have some glue
help me inhale
And mend it with you
We'll float around]
And hang out on clouds
Then we'll come down
And I have a hangover...Have a hangover
Skin the sun
Fall asleep
Wish away
The soul is cheap
Lesson learnedd
Wish me luck
Soothe the burn
Wake me up
Very Ape
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I am buried up to my neck in
Contradictionary lies
I take pride as the kind of illiterature
I'm very ape and very nice
If you ever need anything please don't hesitate
to ask someone else first
I'm too busy acting like I'm not naive.
I've seen it all I was here first
Out of the ground
Into the sky
Out of the sky
Into the dirt
Milk It
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I am my own parasite
I don't need a host to live
We feed off of each other
We can share our endorphns
Doll steak, test meat
I own my own pet virus
I get to pet and name her
Her milk is my shit
My shit is her milk
Doll steak, test meat
Look on the bright side is suicide
Lost eyesight I'm on your side
Angel left wing, right wing, broken wing
Lack of iron and/or sleeping
Protector of the kennel
Ecto-plasma
Ecto-Skeletal
Obituary birthday
Your scent is still here in my place of recovery
Pennyroyal Tea
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I'm on my time with everyone
I have very bad posture
Sit and drink Pennyroyal Tea
Distill the life that's inside of me
Sit and drink Pennyroyal tea
I'm anemic royalty
Give me a Leonard Cohen afterworld
So I can sigh enternally
I'm so tired I can't sleep
I'm a liar and a thief
Sit and drink pennyroyal Tea
I'm anemic royalty
I'm on warm milk and laxatives
Cherry-flavored antacids
Radio Friendly Unit Shifter
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Use just once and destroy
Invasion of our piracy
Afterbirth of a nation
Starve without your skeleton key
I love you for what I am not
I do not want what I have got
A blanket acne'ed with ciggarette burns
Speak at once while taking turns
Second-rate third defree burns
What is wrong with me
What is what I need
What do I think I think
This had nothing to do with what you think
If you ever think at all
Bi-polar opposites attract
All of a sudden my water broke
Hate, hate your enemies
Save, save your friends
Find, find your place
Speak, speak the truth
Tourette's
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Cufk, Tish, Sips (Fuck, Shit, Piss)
---[Interpretation 1]
Moderate Rock
May day, every day, my day
Could've had a heart attack, my heart
We don't know anything, my heart.
We all want something fair, my heart.
Hey!
Hey!
Heyyyyyyy! Heyyyyy! Heyyyyy!
Out of town, out of sight (fire), is my heart.
Queen of lies, today, my heart
One more on the phone, my heart
One more at the door of my heart.
Hey!
Hey!
Heyyyyyyyyyyy!
Mean heart, cold heart, cold heart, cold heart
Cold heart, cold heart, cold heart, cold heart -- uhhhhhhh!
---[Interpreation 2]
Moderate Rock...
It's your enemy, no way!
Get out all the time of my heart
There's no enemy in my heart
Well I'm sick--a path in my heart (--of what I've found in my heart)
All the time I've been fucked--it's my heart
We're all also dead in my heart
Oh no! It's the fault of my heart
Oh no! It's the fault of my heart
We are...Tourette
All Apologies
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What else should I be
All apologies
What else should I say
Everyone is gay
What else could I write
I don't have the right
What else should I be
All apologies
In the sun
In the sun I feed as one
In the sun
In the sun
I'm married
buried
I wish I was like you
Easily amused
Find my nest of salt
Everything is my fault
I'll take all the blame
Aqua seafoam shame
Sunburn with freezerburn
Choking on the ashes of her enemy
All in all we all are
I N C E S T I C I D E
Dive
----
Pick me, pick me, yeahabr>
Let a long (alone), long signal (Live alone, lone single)
At least, at least, yeah
Everyone is hollow
Pick me, pick me, yeah
Everyone is waiting
Pick me, pick me, yeah
You can even pay them
Pain (Hey)
Dive
Dive in me (Dive, Dive, Dive, Die with me)
Kiss this, kiss that, yeah
Live alone, lone single
At least, at least, yeah
You could be my hero
Pick me, pick me, yeah
Everyone is waiting
Hit me, hit me, yeah
I'm real good at hating (hitting)
---[The following are from some live versions.]
Take me, take me, yeah
Let along you signal
At least, at least, yeah
Everyone is hollow
Take me, take me, yeah
Everyone is naked
At least, at least, yeah
You can even swallow
Lick this, kiss that, yeah
Everyone is naked
At least, at least, yeah
Everyone is sated
Take this, take that, yeah
Everyone is hollow
At least, at least, yeah
You can eat my marrow
Prick me, prick me, yeah
Sliver
------
Mom and dad went to a show
They dropped me off at Grandpa Joe's
I kicked and screamed, said please don't go (oh no)
Grandma take me home
Had to eat my dinner there
Mashed potatos and stuff like that
I couldn't chew my meat's too good
She said, well, don't you start your crying
Go outside and ride your bike
That's what I did, I killed my toe
After dinner, I had ice cream
I fell asleep and watched TV
I woke up in my mother's arms
I wanna be alone
Stain
-----
Well he never bleeds and he never fucks
And he never leaves cause he's got bad luck
Well he never reads (reaks) and he never rusts
And he never sleeps cause he's got bad luck yea
I'm a stain
Been a Son
----------
She should have stayed away from friends
She should have had more time to spend
She should have died when she was born
She should have worn the crown of thorns
She should have been a son
She should have stood out in the crowd
She should have made her mother proud
She should have fallen on her stance (faltered)
She should have had another chance
Turnaround (Devo cover)
----------
Take a step outside yourself
And turn around
Take a look at who you are
It's pretty scary
So silly
It is revolting
You're not much
If you are anything
Take a step outside the city
And turn around
Take a look at what you are
It is revolting
You're really nowhere
So wasteful
So foolish
Poppycock
Who said don't look back?
Don't believe 'em
Go for that crazy sounding restaurant
Cause they're gonna try and get behind you
Don't you let them do it
You know what I'm talking about?
You hear me talking?
You hear me talking?
It's pretty scary, totally, it's so revolting
Take a step outside the country
And you turn around
Take a look at what you are
It is amazing
Take a good look
You're no big deal
You're so petty
It's a laugh
Take a step outside the planet
Turn around and around
Take a look at what you are
It's pretty scary
Molly's Lips (Vaselines cover)
------------
She said
She'd take me anywhere
She'd take me anywhere
As long as she stays with me
She said
She'd take me anywhere
She'd take me anywhere
As long as I stayed clean
Kiss, kiss
Molly's lips
Son of a Gun (Vaselines cover)
------------
Up up up and down
Turn turn turnaround
Round round roundabout
And over again
Gun gun son of a gun
You are the only one
That makes any difference
What I say
The sun shines in the bedroom
When we play
The raining always starts
When you go away
New Wave Polly
--------------
Polly wants a cracker
I think I should get off her first
Maybe think she wants some water
To put out the blow torch
It isn't me
We have some seed
Let me clip
Your dirty wings
Let me take a ride
Don't hurt yourself
I want some help
To please myself
I've got some rope
Haven't told
I promise you
I have been true
Let me take a ride
Don't hurt yourself
I want some help
To please myself
Polly wants a cracker
Maybe she would like more food
She asks me to untie her
A chase would be nice for a few
Polly said
Polly says her back hurts
And she's just as bored as me
She caught me off my guard
It amazes me, the will of instinct
Beeswax
-------
---[Interpreation 1]
Why doesn't she need him for a father?
Not only made us, but I can thrive on his shit.
Goring my manhood turns a man off.
Like Pepe LePew would say,
Hey, hey, hey! -- then we clash!
I got my diddly spayed
She laughs about it.
Shrinking inflections if the wind blows just right.
Jacking themselves off polyester.
I wanna jump, this isn't right!
Hey, when am I getting it back?
I don't know why,
I got a joke too silly to say.
Don't touch the balls.
I got a dick, Dick -- hear my fucking hate!
If you're wondering, it's gaining monthly. (If your world is getting ugly)
Fiberglass insulated, the sky is cotton candy.
Spawning downstream, El Rancho Ovulate.
Freely kill him, make it wrong.
Bill has brought me deep in idyll. (idyll / anal)
Billy Slim reminds me of someone.
I'm sick of being Mother Love Bone. (I understand your fear for the love boat)
Don't need to kneel 'cause they wanna jump rope.
And I say, loooooook!
I got my diddly spayed,
I got a little tail,
Ahhhh, I got no balls.
Don't throw that ball.
I got a ..huh! huh!
When ya gonna learn?
---[Interpreation 2]
?? seen him for a father
Not only maidens can occupy my shack
Gluing my manhood gism ?
Like Pepe Le Pew would say hey! hey!
And then we clutch!
I got my dingaling spayed
Shouldn't ask about it
Drinking, reflections, the wind blows just right
Jagged thumbs of polyester
I wanna jump, just isn't right-ight!
Wait'll I get it back!
I got my dingaling spayed
??
I got a joke too silly to say
Don't touch the balls
Lie down and dig dig
Am I fucking ready?
I got my dingaling spayed
And your wondering whats ??
Fiberglass insulated and the sky was cotton candy
Spawning helps ritual (Rachel) ovulate
Feeling can't help me romp
Bill just fuck me, take me idle
Philly's slit reminds me of someone
I'm sick of paying for the love boat
Tony and Tenille say wanna jump rope
And I say look!
I got my penis spayed
I got a little tail!
I got my dingaling spayed
...nothing hard
I gotta be around pussy
Don't let me fall
I got a heh-heh...well you can't live!
We got my dingaling spayed
Mexican Seafood
---------------
Oh, itchy flakes, it isn't through me (Oh, it's your face, it isn't even)
Till the jaw's in flames, it's entertaining
True, the fungus mold is my attraction
Oh, it's only a dys-infection
Only hurts a night, until I pee (tonight / pay)
Only hurts a night, until I sleep
Oh, coming up, and diarrhea
On the tile floor, a gum of pizza
In the toilet bowl, aroma cloudy
Toss, feel it burn, become a chowdered mess
Only hurts a night, until I pee (plea)
Only hurts a night, until I sleep (sing)
Oh, take my bed, I've just consumed some
Flies. Bugs and fleas and even mucus
Stain the Vaseline, and tainted burgers
Stop, in case it learns, and takes a joke as such.
Hairspray Queen
---------------
I was your mine, you were mine, my enemy,
You were, mine, I was your, your enemy,
You were, mine, I was your, your enemy,
You were, mine, I was once your en...aaahh
You rang
Your ears rang
At night, wishful goddess
At night, wish the hardest
At night, disco goddess
At night, we'll go...gaaahhh (god)
Wishful goddess, at night
Wish the hardest, at night
Wishful goddess, at night
Wishful gaaahhh (god)
At night, wishful goddess
At night, wish the hardest
At night, disco goddess
At night, you were so modest
At night, Crisco lovefest
At night, a mouthful on me
It's like, fish-filled garbage
At night, we'll go...gaaahhh (god)
(interesting erotic noises)
Aero Zeppelin
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What's the season of love if you can't have everything?
What's the reason you're around if a crime means anything?
What's the meaning in a crime? It's a crime if anything.
What's the meaning of love? It's grand, it's grand.
How a culture comes again, it's a crime of yesterday.
And you swear it's not a trend, doesn't matter anyway.
There's no need to talk to friends, nothin' new is everyday.
You could shit upon the stairs,
You'll be friends
All the kids will eat it up, if it's packaged properly.
Should the siren irritate, keep it movin' equally.
Not to know is just the fact, we're a problem nowadays
An idea is what we lack, doesn't matter anyway.
All the kids will eat it up, if it's packaged properly
Still the son will imitate, keep it fallin' equally
Not to know is just the facts, we're worse nowadays.
An idea is what we lack, doesn't matter anyway
Hey? hey? hey? hey? hey? hey?
Big Long Now
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It's not cold enough
Please put this side up
She is moving through (She is new, improved)
Can we show our faces now?
I'm not interesting
She's not turning green
Shameful as it seems
Can we show our faces now?
In this clime
I am blind
Why can't I hear?
Color blind
Speak a phrase (Speaking)
Instantly grow (Grown)
I am blind
Waiting in line / Why am I shown?
Aneurysm
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Come on over and do the twist, uh-huh
Overdo it and have a fit, uh-huh
Love you so much it makes me sick, uh-huh
Come on over and do the twist, uh-huh
Beat me outta me, beat it, beat it
Come on over and do the twist, uh-huh
Overdo it and have a fit, uh-huhr>
Overdo it and have a fit, uh-huh
Love you so much it makes me sick, uh-huh
Come on over and shoot the shit, uh-huh
She keeps it pumpin' straight to my heart
U N P L U G G E D I N N E W Y O R K
Jesus Wants Me For A Sunbeam (Vaselines cover)
----------------------------
Jesus don't want me for a sunbeam
Sunbeams are not made like me
Don't expect me to cry
For all the reasons you had to die
Don't ever ask your love of me
Don't expect me to cry
Don't expect me to lie
Don't expect me to die for thee.
The Man Who Sold The World (David Bowie cover)
--------------------------
We passed upon the stair, we spoke of was and when
Although I wasn't there, he said I was his friend
Which came as some surprise I spoke into his eyes
I thought you died alone, a long long time ago
Oh no, not me
I never lost control
You're face to face
With The Man Who Sold The World
I laughed and shook hishand, and made my way back home
I searched for form and land, for years and years I roamed
I gazed a gazley stare at all the millions here
We must have died along, a long long time ago
Who knows? not me
We never lost control
You're face to face
With the Man who Sold the World
Plateau (Meat Puppets cover w/Meat Puppets)
-------
Many a hand has scaled the grand old face of the plateau
Some belong to strangers and some to folks you know
Holy ghosts and talk show hosts are planted in the sand
To beautify the foothills and shake the many hands
The nothing on the top but a bucket and a mop
And an illustrated book about birds
You see a lot up there but don't be scared
Who needs action when you got words
When you've finished with the mop then you can stop
And look at what you've done
The plateau's clean, no dirt to be seen
And the work it took was fun
Well the many hands began to scan around for the next plateau
Some said it was in Greenland and some in Mexico
Some decided it was nowhere except for where they stood
But they were all just guesses, wouldn't help you if they could
Oh, Me (Meat Puppets cover w/Meat Puppets)
------
If I had to lose a mile
If I had to touch feelings
I would lose my soul
The way I do
I don't have to think
I only have to do it
The results are always perfect
And that's old news
Would you like to hear my voice
sweetened with emotion
Invented at your birth?
I can't see the end of me
My whole expanse I cannot see
I formulate infinity
And store it deep inside of me
Lake Of Fire (Meat Puppets cover w/Meat Puppets)
------------
Where do bad folks go when they die?
They don't go to heaven where the angels fly
They go down to the lake of fire and fry
Won't see them again till the fourth of July
I knew a lady who came from Duluth
She got bit by a dog with a rabid tooth
She went to her grave just a little too soon
And she flew away howling on the yellow moon
Now the people cry and the people moan
And they look for a dry place to call their home
And try to find some place to rest their bones
While the angels and the devils
Fight to claim them for their own
Where Did You Sleep Last Night (Leadbelly cover)
------------------------------
My girl, my girl, don't lie to me
Tell me where did you sleep last night
In the pines, in the pines
Where the sun don't ever shine
I would shiver the whole night through
My girl, my girl, where will you go
I'm going where the cold wind blows
Her husband, was a hard working man
Just about a mile from here
His head was found in a driving wheel
But his body never was found
R A R I T I E S
Blandest (1988 Demos)
--------
You're my favorite
Of my saviours
You're my favorite
Oh no
Yes you're my favorite
Of my favors
You're my razor
Oh no
Hey!
And the situation wasn't quite
As intense as I thought
I need you around
To remind me when not to be calm (to remind me what not to become)
And the situation wasn't quite
As intense as I thought
I need you around
To remind me when not to be calm
Calm, calm, calm
Born In A Junkyard (Where Were You In '89, Leeds, 10/27/89)
------------------
I'm long gone from (vertical)
Somewhere South is stopping (me)
I'm long gone from the American Dream
YOu may decide it's not for me
I'm long gone but I'll let you through
You may decide it's not for you
I'm long gone, but I'll let you through
You may decide there's nothing theree
Born in a junkyard (x8)
Gone
I'm long gone but I'll let you through
You may decide that it's not that good
I'm long gone but I'll let you leave
You may decide on stopping me
(repeat 2nd verse)
(chorus)
(solo)
(chorus)
Gone (x16)
Curmudgeon (Lithium single)
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---[Interpretation 1]
I can't hide, no
On the mantle
I'm not sad
Tilling that hoe
It's the season
I'm all reason
I have seen
All I have grown
Sheared at the seams
Cheat on me
And not seen
Cheat on me
At the seams
I'm a lender
I'm a planter
I put something
In the garden
In the handle
On the mantle
I'm not Santa
I'm not God
I want a lady
Can you save me?
It's the sulfur
I have grown
Tis the season
I'm all reason
I have fleas
All I have hoed
---[Interpreation 2]
I can handle, on the mantle
I'm not sad, 'til I'm home
'Tis the season, and I'm all reason
I have seen and I have grown
She's at the seams
She don't need (x3)
In the seams (x3)
She don't need
Not the seams
I'm a lecher, on the planter
I've set something in the (guard)
In the handle, on the mantle
I'm not Santa, I'm as (good)
She's at the seams
She don't need (x4)
Nothin' seems
At the seams (x2)
She don't need
(solo)
My model lady, can you save me?
It's the sulfur I have drunk
'Tis the season, and I'm all reason
I have fleas, so run on home
She's at the seams
She don't need (x6)
At the seams (x2)
She don't need
D-7 (Greg Sage and the Wipers cover; Hormoaning)
---
Straight as an arrow
Defect defect
Not straight, not so straight
Reject reject
Towards anti-social
Solo solo
Standing on the stairs
Cold, cold morning
Ghostly image of fear
Mayday mayday
Gonna leave this region
They'll take me with them
Demension seven (dimented / dimentia)
Do You Love Me? (Kiss cover;C/Z tribute compilation)
---------------
You really like my limousine
You like the way the wheels roll
You like my seven inch leather heels
And goin' to all of the shows
But...
Do you love me?
Really love me?
Do you love me?
You like the credit cards and private planes
Money can really take you far
You like the hotels and fancy clothes
And the sound of electric guitars
You really like rock 'n' roll
All of the fame and the masquerade
You like the concerts and studios
And all the moeny honey that I make
Your backstage pass and black sunglasses
Make you look just like a queen
Even the fans they know your face
>From all of the magazines
[heckling]
Endless, Nameless (Non-Nevermind track called The End Of Music)
-----------------
Take me, take me
See I can, silence
Here I am, here I am
Here I am, here I aaaaaaam -- heellp!
Mother, Father
Father, Mother
Silence, here I am
Take me, see I can
Silence, see I can
Silence, see I can
Silence, see I am -- aaoohhh!
The (yearning's) after peace, ( may be: the journey's after peace)
I really think so
The (yearning's) after peace,
I really think so
Mother, Mama
Father, Mama
Even In His Youth (Hormoaning, Smells... single)
-----------------
Even in his youth he was nothing
Kept his body clean going nowhere
Daddy was ashamed he was something/nothing
Smears the family name he was something (Disgrace to family name)
(Stripped him of his name)
Leave this form before you're through (He was born for your crew)
(Read this book before your through)
I've got nothing left to prove
If I die before I wake
Hope I don't come back a slave (slave = same)
Gallons Of Rubbing Alcohol Flow Through The Strip (In Utero imports)
-------------------------------------------------
It hurts when you have to press that dull little thing
that you're only supposed to use once and then discard.
Where do you put it? In the garbage can, my honest friend.
My shyness, pet her flow.
She's only been five months late,
even though we haven't had sex for a week.
A mil a day, a mil, I say. (meal)
And my heart's made my....
Somebody else already used the word aurora borealis.
She was tied up in chains, and Sam had helped her in the freezer.
She's only five weeks late,
and I haven't had a date forever.. .
ever...ever...forever!
Wish I had more...more opportunity,
more chances to remember some things
so I couldn't have so much pressure on my...
on my...on my, um...ah, on my...um...um...head.
(solo)
We'd have so much more diversity,
and so much more input, so much more creative flow,
if we had someone in school, a (GIT)...
GIT...geeks...in...town.
Ha!...Come on, Dave, think of one...
(Dave: inaudible)
It should be GIC, geeks with Charvels
No, GWC
Fuck, man, this is a waste of time!
(laughs) One more solo? Yeahhhhhhhhh! Yeaaaahhhhh!
(solo)
You're personally responsible for...
the entire strip...to be washed away....
cleansed...as if gallons of, um, rubbing alcohol
flowed through the strip and were set on fire .
It didn't just singe the hair, it made it straight.
And then Perry Ellis came along with his broom,
and his...silk...
and he...he erected a beautiful city...
a city of stars.
(solo)
Help Me, I'm Hungry (unknown 1990 show & Melkweg, Amsterdam 11/5/89)
-------------------
---[Interpretation 1]
Hold me, there's too much tension
(ah-grade) me, I'm fuckin' hungry
Help me, I'm fuckin' cornered
Grade me, you might be right
Lightning fucking around in my head
Fierce, dangerous, pathetic, fucked up
People freakin' every day
White light's in sight (inside)
What do you want? Huh?
Cold, naked man, picked off his scabs, and
Fed them, to the pigeons
Help him, he's fuckin' cornered
Grade him, it might be fun
Lightning fucking around in my head
Fierce, dangerous, pathetic, fucked up
People freakin' every day
White light's in sight
I don't know
Hold me, something's happening
Help me, somebody help me
Hold me, I'm fuckin' hungry
Help me, I'm right here, who (where) are you?
Naked man, (you say you saw)
Fed them, to the pigeons
Help him, he's fuckin' cornered
Grade him, it might be fun
Lightning fucking around in my head
Fierce, dangerous, pathetic, fucked up
People freakin' every day
White light's in sight
I don't know
Help me, I'm fuckin' hungry
Help me, I'm fuckin' up
Hold me, some fuckin' help
Aaaahhh! Ahh!
---[Interpretation 2]
Hold me get some attention
Degrade me I'm fucking hungryr
Help me I'm fucking corny (horny)
Gag me You make me vomit
Lie on your fucking resume
Big, special, it's very, fucked up
People speaking every night
White light in your sight
What do you want
Four legged man
Help him to the pier
Just help him He's fucking corny
Grade him You make Me Vomit
Hold me I'm fucking hungry
Help me I'm fucking hungry< br>
Hold me I'm fucking hungry
Help me I'm fucking hungry
Here She Comes Now (Velvet Underground cover;VU tribute)
------------------
Aah, if she ever comes now now
Aah, she looks so good
Aah, she's made out of wood
She says so
I Hate Myself And Want To Die (B&B compilation)
-----------------------------
Running nose and runny yolk
Even if you have a cold still
You can cough on me again
I still haven't had my full fill
In the someday -- What's that sound?
End it someday -- What's that song?
Broken heart and broken bones
Finger pressing down the horse pills (Finger plaster-cast of the horse pills)
One more quirky cliched phrase
You're the one I wanna refill (You don't wanna wanna read them)
(spoken very softly behind the guitar)
(Words are broken lives)
Five pieces of board, turned around
attached to the skull by common wood screws
A child would like to do it
In His Room
-----------
He is gonna chase you in and out of a dream
You're not gonna thank him and I'm tired of this dream
Take him on occassion in the back of the room
If they don't show any affection he'll died in June
See the stab wounds in his hands
See him dying in his room
He's dying in his room
He's dying in his room
Heading for me, heading this way
He is coming, I don't care
I don't want to thank you, well I don't mind
Gave his only pleasures to a friend of mine
He's not gonna catch you in a lighted room
You don't thank him I know I should
See the stab wounds in his hands
You killed him, I don't care
Keep a promise, you would too
Keep a promise, you would too
See the silence in his head
He is coming, I don't care
We're not gonna make it, well I don't mind
They don't want to thank him, they don't have any time
In a conversation whom they don't know
They don't have any patience, they're becoming slow
See a famine in his head
See him coming at their heels
He loves you, give him a chance
I don't love him, I don't care
See him starving, give her hell
It is over, we don't care In His Room
Marigold (Heart Shaped Box single)
--------
He's there in case I want it all (wandered off / wanted)
He's scared cause I want (warned)
He's scared in case I want it all
He's scared cause I want
All in all the clock is slow
Six color pictures all in a row
Of a marigold
He's there in case I want it all
He's scared cause I want
He's there in case I want it all
He's there cause I want
Moist Vagina (All Apologies single)
------------
She has a moist vagina
I particularly enjoy the circumference
The perceptive walls of her anus (I'll be sucking warts off her anus)
I prefer her to any other (I prefer her to wait at the other)
Marijuana
The Money Will Roll Right In (Mudhoney cover, Reading Festival 1992)
----------------------------
I'm goin' to Hollywood, they'll see that I'm so good
I won't care how I feel, and I'll get to fuck Brooke Shields
I'll just sit and grin, the money will roll right in
I want to be a star, I'm going to have a car
And you'll have to admit, I'll be rich as shit
I'll just sit and grin, the money will roll right in
I would give you some, if you only would have treated me nice
You'll wish that you did, you'll feel pretty stupid
I'll just sit and grin, the money will roll right in
It's fun to be a star, it's nice to have a car
Yeah, you'll have to admit, that I'll be rich as shit
And I'll just sit and grin, the money will roll right in
The money will roll right in
Oh, The Guilt (Jesus Lizard split single)
-------------
---[Interpreation 1]
She seems to think
She seems too weak
She takes a week to get over it
She likes the sea
She likes to see
She likes to think she has all of it
She likes the sound
She likes the sand
She likes to stand she can't affod to sit
She likes to be
She likes to go (She hates the guilt)
She likes the time
She owns the time
She buys time and wraps herself in it
She likes to think
She seems to breed
She takes all the rent
She likes the sand
She likes to stand she likes to sit
She seems to think
She seems to breed
She takes a week to get all the rent
She likes to see
She likes to think, she has all the rent
---[Interpretation 2]
She seems to think, she seems too week
She takes a week to get over it
She likes the sea, she likes to see
She likes to think she has all of it
She likes the sound, she likes the sand
She likes to stand, she can't afford to sit
She likes to be (x3)
She's into guilt
Guilt (x3)
She likes to think, she likes to drink
She seems too weak, she takes all of it (all the rent)
She likes the time, she owns the time
She borrows time, to self-invent
She seems too weak, she likes to see
She likes to think she has all of it (all the rent)
She likes the sand, she likes to stand
She likes to sit, she likes to go
Go (x3)
(solo)
(repeat 1st three verses)
She likes to be (x3)
She likes to go
Go (x7)
Pay To Play (Stay Away demo, DGC Rarities Vol. 1)
-----------
Monkey see, monkey do -- I don't know why I
Walk around, follow you -- I don't know why I
Throw it out, keep it in -- I don't know why I
Have to have poison skin -- I don't know why I
Pay
Pay to play (x3)
(Walk) an inch, take a mile -- I don't know why I
Never faded, never smiled -- I don't know why I
Never mind, eat and run -- I don't know why I
Fuck your ass, for the fun -- I don't know why I
Pay
Pay to play (x3)
(guitar riff)
I don't know why I
(guitar riff)
I don't know why I
Pay
Pay to play (x3)
(repeat 1st verse, chorus)
(guitar riff)
I don't know why I
(guitar riff)
I don't know why I
Pay
Pay to play (x3)
(drum/bass solo)
Ahhhhhhhh!
Pay to play (x8)
Aaaaahhhh! Aaahhhh! Aaahhhh!
Return Of The Rat (Greg Sage and the Wipers cover; Wipers tribute)
-----------------
You better watch out
You better beware
They're coming from all sides of the country
You better beware
Return of the rat
No, no, no, no!
They better confess
Well, they better confess
I know, I seen them do it
They better confess
Spank Thru (Sub Pop 200 compilation)
----------
This song is for lovers out there (This song I once felt)
And the little light in the trees
And the flowers sing among me (And the flowers are drooping at us)
(And the flowers soon remind me)
And the birds fly happily (fly at me)
We're together once again my love
I hit your back, oh baby baby (I'll get ya back, oh baby baby)
I can't explain just why
We lost it from the start
Cause living without you girl
You'll only break my heart
I can feel it
I can hold it
I can mend it (bend it)
I can shape it
I can mold it
I can cut it
I can taste it (paste it)
I can spank it
Smack it, beat it, masturbate it
I've been looking for days now (day-glow?)
Always hearing the same old
City boy won't you spank thru?
I can make you tell things you won't think you ever could
Spectre (1989 Barnyard Demos)
-------
To hope is admittance
Feed before beginning
Double-sided cynics
Reflected images (Defective)
Don't be so selfish
Leaving the image (leave and manage)
Follow it far
To find where you are
You haven't grown
Go on alone
Never finished his sentence
Remained in seclusion
For the next few days
Family is circuling
He having moved up (Hearing every movement)
All the styles of heresy (By the size of the milisead)
Finally he appeared unexpectedly
Looking for company
Talk To Me (Europe '91)
----------
Sit down easy
Straight from the scene of my heart
No one's ever seen him
??
? got it only
I am not sitting
I am not seven
I am not shaving
I am not saving (shipping) away
Talk to me
In your own language please
In your own (room)
Sit down easy
??
If somehow
Waiting for a house to ?
? ever and ever
? live forever
? live forever
??
Lay down easy
Right down to the start
Lay down easy
Right outside in the snow
??
? whore
??
??
??
Token Eastern Song (commonly known as Happy Hour on bootlegs, Virgin Songs)
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---[Interpretation 1]
I can read, I can write
I can breathe, proven fact
Bless my greed, greased unfold (That's my greed, it's twofold)
Is it me, or my ego (Isn't me)
Write some words, make them rhyme
This is for the story line
Set the mood, something new
Is it me, or my attitude?
If you want
To put on (To belong)
And it meant (Have you been)
The extremes
Acted out (Happy Hour)
Practicing (Practice sing)
Perfecting (Perfect team)
Break to read (Talk to me)
On to me (After me, until me)
I can wait in the fire (I will raise an effect)
I can explain your cycle (To explain to sight)
Vital Signs (By the time)
With your breath I will show you mine (The lass is ...)
I stink in here my boy
---[Interpretation 2]
I can read, I can write
I can breed, proven flight
It's my greed, (truth) unfold
Is it me, or my ego?
Write some words, make them rhyme
Pieces for, assembly line
Set the mood, something new
Is it me, or my attitude?
(scream)
If you want, to belong
And you miss, the extremes
The extremes, act it out
Practicing, perfecting
Pressuring, undo me
Undo me, undo me
I will wade, in the fire
To explain, your asylum
Idle times, analyzing
We'll compare, all our (sightings) -- come on!
Lost grace, to hear, my voice
I can read, I can write
I can breathe, proven fact
This might be, recent clone
Is it me, or my ego?
Write some words, make them rhyme
Pieces for, story line
Set the mood, something new
Is it me, or my attitude?
(scream)
If you want, to belong
And you miss, the extremes
The extremes, act it out
Practicing, perfecting
Pressuring, undo me
undo me, undo me
undo me, undo me
undo me, undo me -- uhhhhh!
Verse Chorus Verse (No Alternative compilation)
------------------
---[Interpretation 1]
And if you save yourself
You will make him happy
He'll keep you in a jar
And you'll think you're happy
He'll give you breathing holes
And you'll think you're happy
He'll cover you with dust (grass)
And you'll think you're happy now
You're in a laundry room (locker room, another room)
You're in a laundry room
The clue that came to you, oh
And if you guard yourself (cut yourself, kill yourself)
You will think you're happy
He'll keep you in a jar
Then you'll make him happy
He'll give you breathing holes
Then you'll think you're happy
He'll cover you with dust
Then you'll think you're happy now
And if you fool yourself
You will make him happy
He'll keep you in a jar
Then you'll think you're happy
He'll give you breathing holes
Then you will seem happy
You'll wallow in your shit
Then you'll think you're happy now
---[Interpretation 2]
And if you save yourself, you will make him happy
He'll keep you in a jar, then you'll make him happy
He'll give you breathing holes, then you'll make his happy
He'll cover you with grass, then you'll make him happy now
You're in a laundry room
You're in a laundry room
The clues that came to you -- uuuhhhh
And if you cut yourself, you will make him happy
He'll keep you in a jar, then you'll make him happy
He'll give you breathing holes, then you'll make him happy
He'll cover you with grass, then you'll make him happy now
(chorus)
(solo)
(solo)
(chorus)
And if you fool yourself, you will make him happy
He'll keep you in a jar, then you'll make him happy
He'll give you breathing holes, then you will seem happy
You'll wallow in the shit, then you'll think you're happy now
(chorus)
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