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Bleach Lyrics
Blew
Floyd The Barber
About A Girl
School
Love Buzz
Paper Cuts
Negative Creep
Scoff
Swap Meet
Mr. Moustache
Sifting
Big Cheese
Downer


Blew

If you wouldn't mind I would like to blew
If you wouldn't mind I would like to loose
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 stain
Could you believe who we knew was stress or strain?
Here is another word that rhymes with shame

If you wouldn't mind I would like to blew
If you wouldn't mind I would like to loose
If you wouldn't care I would like to leave
If you wouldn't mind I would like to breathe

(x2)
Is there another reason for your stain
Could you believe who we knew was stress or strain?
Here is another word that rhymes with shame

(x8)
You could do anything

Floyd the Barber

Bell on the door ring, come on in (Alt: Hello Cobain - come on in)
Floyd observes my hairy chin
Sit down in [the] chair, don't be afraid
Steaming towel wrapped around my face

I'm ashamed (x3)

Barney ties me to the chair
I can't see, I'm really scared
Floyd breathes hard, I hear a zip
Pee-Pee pressed against my lips (Alt: Beat me, pressed against my lips)

I was shamed (x3)

I sense others in the room
Opie, Aunt Bea, I presume
They take turns, and cut me up (Alt: They take turns to cut me up)
I die smothered in Andy's Clutch (Alt: I died smothered in Aunt Bea's muff)

I was shamed (x3)

About a Girl

I need an easy friend
I do ... with an ear to lend
I don't think you fit this shoe
I do ... won't you have a clue

I'll take advantage while
You hang me out to dry
But I can't see you every night for free
I do

I'm standing in your line
I do ... hope you have the time
I do ... pick a number too
I do ... keep a date with you

I'll take advantage while
You hang me out to dry
But I can't see you every night for free

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

I'll take advantage while
You hang me out to dry
But I can't see you every night (x2)
For free

I do ... (x4)

School

(x4)
Won't you believe it
It's just my luck

(x3)
No recess

(x4)
Won't you believe it
It's just my luck

(x3)
No recess

(x8)
You're in high school again

(x7)
No recess

Love Buzz

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

(x4)
Can you feel my love buzz?

Would you believe me when I do you
You are the queen of my heart
Please don't deceive me when I hurt you
Just ain't the way it seems

(x4)
Can you feel my love buzz?

Originally by Shocking Blue. Written by Robbie Van Leeuwen.

Paper Cuts

At feeding time (Alt: When I'm feeling tired)
She pushed food through the door (Alt: She puts you through the door)
And I crawl towards the crack of light (Alt: I crawl towards the cursed alley)
Sometimes I can't find my way
Newspapers spread around
Soaking all that they can
A cleaning is due again
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 (x3)
Nirvana (x6)

Black windows of paint
I scratched with my nails
I see others just like me
Why do they not try to escape?
They bring out the older ones
They point at my way
They come with a flash of light (Alt: They come with 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!
To take you with me
You're right

Nirvana (x8)

Negative Creep

This is out of our reach (x3)
and it's grown
This is getting to be (x3)
drone
I'm a negative creep (x3)
and I'm stoned!
I'm a negative creep (x3)
and I'm ... (x2)

Daddy's little girl ain't a girl no more (x6)

This is out of our range (x3)
and it's crude
This is getting to be (x3)
like drone
I'm a negative creep (x3)
and I'm stoned!
I'm a negative creep (x3)
and I'm ... (x2)

Daddy's little girl ain't a girl no more (x6)

Fuck! Yeah! 
Drone! 
Stoned!

Daddy's little girl ain't a girl no more (x14)

Scoff

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 (x7)

Heal a million, kill a million (x3)

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 (x7)

Heal a million, kill a million (x3)

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 (x7)

Heal a million, kill a million (x3)

Swap Meet

(x3)
They lead a lifetime that is comfortable
They travel far to keep their stomachs full
They make their living off of arts and crafts
The kind with seashells, driftwood and burlap
They make a deal when they come to town
The Sunday swap meet is a battle ground
She loves him more than he will ever know
He loves her more than he will ever show

-- Keeps his cigarettes close to his heaart
-- Keeps her photographs close to her heeart
-- Keeps the bitterness close to the heaart

Mr. Moustache

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
Yes I eat cow - I am not proud.

Is he in an easychair? (Alt: Easy in an easy chair)
-- Poop as hard as a rock.
I don't like you anyway
-- Seal it in a box

I'm new
Now you

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
Yes I eat cow - I am not proud.

Is he in an easychair? (Alt: Easy in an easy chair)
-- Poop as hard as rock.
I don't like you anyway
-- Seal it in a box

(x2)
I'm new
Now you

Sifting

Afraid - to grade
Wouldn't it be fun?
Cross, self loss (Alt: Cross, says floss)
Wouldn't it be fun?
Wet your bed
Wouldn't it be fun?
Sun felt numb (Alt: Some fear none)
Wouldn't it be fun?

Your eyes ...
Teacher said,
Your eyes ... 
Teacher said,
Your eyes ...
Teacher said,
Preacher said

"Don't have nothing for you" (x7)

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 in coals
Wouldn't it be fun?

Your eyes ...
Teacher said,
Your eyes ... 
Teacher said,
Your eyes ... 
Preacher said (x2)

"Don't have nothing for you" (x7)

"Don't have nothing for you" (x9)

Big Cheese

Big cheese - make me
Mine says, "Go [to] the office"

Big cheese - make me
Mine says, "One that stays"

Black is black, straight back
Need more enemies

Sure you are, but what am I? (Alt: Show you all what a man is)
We were enemies

Big lies - make mine
Mine says "Go [to] the office"

Big cheese - make me
Message? What is it?

Black is black, straight back

Need more enemies
She eats glue, how 'bout you? (Alt: She is glue, how are you?)

Big cheese - make me
Mine says "Go [to] the office"

Big cheese - make me
Message?  What is it?

Black is black, straight back
We were enemies
She eats glue, how 'bout you? (Alt: She is glue, how are you?)

Black is black, straight back
We were enemies
Sure you are, but what am I?
We were enemies
She eats glue, how 'bout you? (Alt: She is glue, how are you?)
We were enemies
Sure you are, but what am I?

It is fairly difficult to get the exact correct lyrics for this song ...

Downer

Portray sincerity (Alt: Butcher sincerity)
Act out of loyalty
Defending your true country
Wish away the pain
Hand out lobotomies
To save little families
Surrealistic fantasy
Bad boy, Fight! (Alt: Flamboyant pain)

Hold me down in restitution
Living out your date with fusion
Is the whole fleece shun in master?
Don't feel guilty, master writing

Somebody said that they're not much like I am, I know I can
Make enough of the words for you to go along and sing your song

Slippery pessimist hypocrite master
Conservative communist apocalyptic bastard
Thank you dear God for putting me on this Earth
I feel very privileged in debt for my thirst! (Alt: Feeling very frivilous, death in mind. Nurse!)

Hold me down in restitution
Living out your date with fusion
Is the whole fleece shun in master?
Don't feel guilty, master writing

Somebody said that they're not much like I am, I know I can
Make enough of the words for you to go along and sing your song
 
 
 

Nevermind Lyrics
Smells Like Teen Spirit
In Bloom
Come as you are
Breed
Lithium
Polly
Territorial Pissings
Drain You
Lounge Act
Stay Away
On A Plain
Something In The Way
Endless, Nameless

Smells Like Teen Spirit

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? (x3) 
Hello, hello, hello! 

With the lights out, it's less dangerous 
Here we are now, entertain us
I feel stupid and contagious 
Here we are now, entertain us
A mulatto 
An albino 
A mosquito 
My libido 
Yay! (x3) 

I'm worse at what I do best 
And for this gift I feel blessed 
Our little group has always been 
And always will until the end 

Hello, hello, hello, how low? (x3) 
Hello, hello, hello! 

With the lights out, it's less dangerous 
Here we are now, entertain us
I feel stupid and contagious 
Here we are now, entertain us
A mulatto 
An albino 
A mosquito 
My Libido 
Yay! (x3) 

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? (x3) 
Hello, hello, hello! 

With the lights out, it's less dangerous 
Here we are now, entertain us
I feel stupid and contagious 
Here we are now, entertain us
A mulatto 
An albino 
A mosquito 
My libido 

A denial !! (x9)

In Bloom

Sell the kids for food 
-- weather changes moods 
Spring is here again 
-- reproductive glands 

Hey - He's the one 
Who likes all our pretty songs 
And he likes to sing along 
And he likes to shoot his gun 
But he knows not what it means 
Don't know what it means, when I say: 

He's the one 
Who likes all our pretty songs 
And he likes to sing along 
And he likes to shoot his gun 
But he knows not what it means 
Knows not what it means when I say aahh ... 

We can have some more -- nature is a whore 
Bruises on the fruit -- tender age in bloom 

Hey - He's the one 
Who likes all our pretty songs 
And he likes to sing along 
And he likes to shoot his gun 
But he knows not what it means 
Don't know what it means, when I say: 

He's the one 
Who likes all our pretty songs 
And he likes to sing along 
And he likes to shoot his gun 
But he knows not what it means 
Knows not what it means when I say aahh ... 

He's the one 
Who likes all our pretty songs 
And he likes to sing along 
And he likes to shoot his gun 
But he knows not what it means 
Knows not what it mean's when I say: 

He's the one 
Who likes all our pretty songs 
And he likes to sing along 
And he likes to shoot his gun 
But he knows not what it means 

Knows not what it means (x2) 
Knows not what it means when I say aahh ... 

Come As You Are

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 yours, don't be late. 
Take a rest, as a friend, as an old memoria 
Memoria (x3) 

Come dowsed in mud, soaked in bleach 
As I want you to be 
As a trend, as a friend, as an old memoria 
Memoria (x3) 

And I swear that I don't have a gun 
No I don't have a gun (x2) 

Memoria (x3) 

Memoria - and I don't have a gun 

And I swear that I don't have a gun 
No I don't have a gun (x4) 

Memoria (x2) 

Breed

I don't care (x5) 
Care if I'm old 
I don't mind (x5) 
Mind, don't have a mind 
Get away (x4) 
Away, away from your home 
I'm afraid (x5) 
Afraid, 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 could plant a house 
We could build a tree 
I don't even care 
We could have all three 
She said (x8) 

I don't care (x5) 
Care if I'm old 
I don't mind (x5) 
Mind, I don't have a mind 
Get away (x4) 
Away, away from your home 
I'm afraid (x4) 
Afraid, 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 (x8) 

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 (x8) 
She said .. good! 

Lithium

I'm so happy 'cause 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 (Alt: We broke 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 (x6) 

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 (x6) 

(x2) 
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 killed you - I'm not gonna crack 

I'm so happy 'cause 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 (Alt: We broke 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 (x6) 

(x2) 
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 killed you - I'm not gonna crack 

Polly

Polly wants a cracker 
I think I should get off 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 cut yourself 
I want some help 
To please myself 
I've got some rope 
You have been told 
I promise you 
I have been true 
Let me take a ride 
Don't cut yourself 
I want some help 
To please myself 

Polly wants a cracker 
Maybe she would like some food 
She asks me to untie her 
A chase would be nice for a few 

It isn't me 
We have some seed 
Let me clip 
Your dirty wings 
Let me take a ride 
Don't cut yourself 
I want some help 
To please myself 
I've got some rope 
You have been told 
I promise you 
I have been true 
Let me take a ride 
Don't cut yourself 
I want some help 
To please myself 

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 

It isn't me 
We have some seed 
Let me clip 
Your dirty wings 
Let me take a ride 
Don't cut yourself 
I want some help 
To please myself 
I've got some rope 
You have been told 
I promise you 
I have been true 
Let me take a ride 
Don't cut yourself 
I want some help 
To please myself 

Territorial Pissings

"Come on people now, smile on your brother and 
 everybody get together, try to love one another right now" 

When I was an alien, cultures weren't opinions 

Gotta find a way, to find a way, when I'm here 
Gotta find a way - a better way - I had better wait 

Never met a wise man, if so it's a woman

(x2) 
Gotta find a way, to find a way, when I'm here
Gotta find a way - a better way - I had better wait 

"Just because you're paranoid, don't mean they're not after you" 

(x4) 
Gotta find a way, to find a way, when I'm here 
Gotta find a way - a better way - I had better wait 

Drain You

One baby to another says -
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 
I like you 

With eyes so dialated, 
I've become 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 

Chew your meat for you 
Pass it back and forth 
In a passionate kiss 
From my mouth to yours 
I like you 
You (x5) 

One baby to another says -
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 
Sloppy lips to lips 
You're my vitamins 
I'm like you 

Lounge Act

Truth - covered in security 
I can't let you smother me 
I'd like to, but it couldn'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 
I still smell her on you

Don't - tell me what I wanna hear 
Afraid of never knowing fear 
Experience anything you need 
I'll keep fighting jealousy 
Until it's fucking gone 

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 
I still smell her on you

Truth! - covered in security 
I can't let you smother me 
I'd like to but it couldn'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 make you a deal 
We've made 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 

Still smell her on you (x3)

Stay Away

Monkey see, monkey do 
I don't know why I'd - rather be dead than cool 
I don't know why - every line ends in rhyme 
I don't know why - less is more, love is blind 
I don't know why 

Stay
Stay away (x3) 

Give an inch, take a smile 
I don't know why - fashion shits, fashion style 
I don't know why - throw it out and keep it in 
I don't know why - have to have poison skin 
I don't know why 

Stay
Stay away (x3) 

I don't why (x2)

Stay
Stay away (x3) 

Monkey see, monkey do 
I don't know why I'd - rather be dead than cool 
I don't know why - every line ends in rhyme 
I don't know why - less is more, love is blind 
I don't know why 

Stay
Stay away (x3) 

I don't know why (x2) 

Stay
Stay away (x3) 

Stay away (x5)

God is gay!

On A Plain

I'll start this off without any words 
I got so high that I scratched 'till 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 love myself better than you 
I know it's wrong so what should I do? 
I'm on a plain 
I can't complain 
I'm on a plain 

My mother died every night 
It's safe to say, don't quote me on that 

I love myself better than you 
I know it's wrong so what should I do? 

The black sheep got blackmailed again 
Forgot to put on the zip code 

I love myself better than you 
I know it's wrong so what should I do? 

I'm on a plain 
I can't complain 
I'm on a plain 

Somewhere I have heard this before 
In a dream of memory restored (Alt: 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 

I love myself better than you 
I know it's wrong so what should I do? 

And one more special message to go 
And then I'm done, then I can go home 

I love myself better than you 
I know it's wrong so what should I do? 

(x5) 
I'm on a plain 
I can't complain 

Something In The Way

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 
It's okay to eat fish 
'Cause they don't have any feelings 

(x3) 
Something in the way, mmm 
Something in the way, yeah, mmm 

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 
It's okay to eat fish 
'Cause they dont't have any feelings 

(x4) 
Something in the way, mmm 
Something in the way, yeah, mmm 

Endless, Nameless

Silence 
Here I am 
Here I am 
Silent 

Bright and clear 
It's what I am 
I have 
Died 

Mother (x4)

Death 
With violence 
Excitement 
Right here 

Died 
Go to hell 
Here I am 
Right here 

Ow!

No mas (x4)

Death 
Is what I am 
Go to hell 
Go to jail 
In back of that 
Crime 
Here I am 
Take a chance 
Dead!

Die! 

Incesticide Lyrics
Dive
Sliver
Stain
Been a son
Turnaround
Molly's Lips
Son of a gun
(New Wave) Polly
Beeswax
Downer
Mexican Seafood
Hairspray Queen
Aero Zeppelin
Big Long Now
Aneurysm


Dive

Pick me, pick me yeah
Live alone, lone single (Alt: Live alone, lone signal)
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

Hey

(x2)
Dive (x3)
Dive in me

Dive in me (x3)

Kiss this, kiss that yeah
Live alone, lone single (Alt: Live alone, lone signal)
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

Hey

(x2)
Dive (x3)
Dive in me

Dive in me (x3)

(x3)
Dive (x3)
Dive in me

Dive in me (x6)

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

Grandma take me home (x8)

Had to eat my dinner there
Mashed potatos and stuff like that
I couldn't chew my meat too good

Never take me home (x8) (Alt: Grandma take me home (x8))

She said, well, don't you start your crying (Alt: Said, why don't you stop your crying)
Go outside and ride your bike
Thats what I did, I killed my toad

Never take me home (x8)

After dinner, I had ice cream
I fell asleep, and watched TV
I woke up in my mother's arms

Never take me home (x19)
I wanna be alone

Stain

(x3)
Well he never bleeds and he never fucks
And he never leaves 'cause he's got bad luck.
Well he never reads and he never draws.
And he never sleeps 'cause he's got bad blood, yeah

I'm a stain, I'm a stain, I'm a stain, 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 - been a son
She should have - been a son
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
She should have had another chance

(x2)
She should have - been a son
She should have - been a son
She should have - been a son
She should have - 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 - been a son
She should have - been a son
She should have - been a son

Turnaround

Take a step outside yourself
And you turn around
Take a look at who you are
It's pretty scary
So silly
It's Revolting
You're not much
You can't do anything

Take a step outside the city
And you 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, it's so revolting (x4)
Naaaah !

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 where you are
It's pretty scary

Originally by Devo

Molly's Lips

(x3)

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 (x4 and x8 in the end)

Originally by The Vaselines

Son of A Gun

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
Makes any difference what I say

(x2)
The sun shines in the bedroom
When we play
The raining always starts
When you go away

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
Makes any difference what I say

(x2)
The sun shines in the bedroom
When we play
The raining always starts
When you go away

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
Makes any difference what I say

(x4)
The sun shines in the bedroom
When we play
The raining always starts
When you go away

Originally by The Vaselines

(New Wave) Polly

Polly wants a cracker
I think I should get off of her first
Maybe 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
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

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
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 please myself (Alt: To help myself)

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

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
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 please myself (Alt: To help myself)

Beeswax

Why doesn't she need him for a father?
Not only maidens can occupy my shack
Goring my manhood turns a man off
Like Pepe LePew would say,
Hey, hey, hey! -- then we clash!

I got my diddly spayed (x3)
I got my diddly

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 got my diddly spayed (x3)
I got my diddly

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!

I got my diddly spayed (x3)
I got my diddly

If you're wondering, it's gaining monthly
Fiberglass insulated, 
Disguised as cotton candy,
Spawning downstream, El Rancho Ovulate
Feeling can't help me romp
Bill just fuck me, take me anal
Billy'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 dingaling spayed
I got my liberty 
I got my diddly spayed (x2)

... 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 diddly spayed

I got diddly spayed (x5)
I got diddly

Downer

Portray sincerity
Act out of loyalty
Defending your country
Wish away the pain
Hand out lobotomies
To save little families
Surrealistic fantasy
Bland boring plain

Hold me down in restitution
Living out your date with fusion
Is the whole fleece shun in master?
Don't feel guilty, master writing

Somebody said that they're not much like I am, I know I can
Make enough of the words for you to go along and sing your song

Slippery pessimist hypocrite master
Conservative communist apocalyptic bastard
Thank you dear God for putting me on this Earth
I feel very privileged in debt for my thirst!

Hold me down in restitution
Living out your date with fusion
Is the whole fleece shun in master?
Don't feel guilty, master writing

Somebody said that they're not much like I am, I know I can
Make enough of the words for you to go along and sing your song

Mexican Seafood

Oh, itchy flakes, it isn't through me
Till the jaw's in flames, it's entertaining
True, the fungus mold is my attraction
Oh, it's only a disinfection

Only hurts a night, until I pee (Alt: Only hurts when I, hurts when I pee)
Only hurts a night, until I sleep (Alt: Only hurts when I, hurts when I see)

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 (Alt: Only hurts when I, hurts when I pee)
Only hurts a night, until I sleep (Alt: Only hurts when I, hurts when I see)

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.
Mmmmm ...

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

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

At night, wishful goddess
At night, wish the hardest
At night, disco goddess
At night, we'll go ... gaaahhh!

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 ene ...

Wishful goddess, at night
Wish the hardest, at night
Wishful goddess, at night
Wishful gaaahhh

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 ene!

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 !!

(Interesting erotic noises)

Aero Zeppelin

What's the season of love if you can't have everything
What's the reason of love if you can lose everything
What's the meaning of love, it's a crime if anything
What's the meaning of love, it's a crime, it's a crime

How can a culture can forget it's plan of yesterday
And you swear it's not a trend, doesn't matter anyway
There's no need to talk to friends, nothing new is everyday
You could shit upon the stairs, you'll be friends

You'll be friends (x3)

All the kids will eat it up, if it's packaged properly
Should it subteley irritate, keep it movin' equally
All I know is just the fact, where the world is 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
All I know is just the facts, where the world is nowadays
An idea is what we lack, doesn't matter anyway

Hey ... (x7)

Aero Zeppelin (slightly different interpretation)

What's the season of love if you can't have anything
What's the reason of love if you can lose everything
What's the meaning in a crumb, it's a crime if anything
Where's the meaning of love, it's a crime, it's a crime

How a culture can forget it's plan of yesterday
And you swear it's not a trend, doesn't matter anyway
There's no need to talk to friends, nothing new is everyday
You could shit upon the stairs, you'll be friends

You'll be friends (x3)

All the kids will eat it up, if it's packaged properly
Still the son will immitate, keep it fallin' equally
Now they know it's just a fact, we're a problem nowadays
An idea is what we lack, doesn't matter anyways

All the kids will eat it up, if it's packaged properly
Still the son will imitate, keep it fallin' equally
Now they know just the facts, where the world is nowadays
An idea is what we lack, doesn't matter anyways

Hey ... (x7)

Lyrics courtesy of Kevin Morris. Different interpretations possible.

Big Long Now

It's not cold enough
Please put this side up
She is moving through (Alt: She is moon grey)
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?

Endless climb
I am blind
Why can't I leave? (Alt: Why can't I hear?)
Color blind
Speaking a phrase
Instantly grown
I am blind
Waiting in line

It's not cold enough
Please put this side up
She is moving through (Alt: She is moon grey)
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?

Endless climb
I am blind
Why can't I leave? (Alt: Why can't I hear?)
Color blind
Speaking a phrase
Instantly grown
I am blind
Why am I sure?

Aneurysm

Come on over and do the twist
Over-do it and have a fit
Love you so much it makes me sick
Come on over and do the twist

Beat me outta me - Beat it! beat it! (x7) (Alt: Beat thee outta me - Beat it! beat it!)
Beat me outta me

Come on over and do the twist
Over-do it and have a fit
Love you so much it makes me sick
Come on over and shoot the shit

Beat me outta me - Beat it! beat it! (x7) (Alt: Beat thee outta me - Beat it! beat it!)
Beat me outta me

She keeps it pumpin' straight to my heart (x8)

 

In Utero Lyrics
Serve the servants
Scentless Apprentice
Heart-Shaped Box
Rape me
Francis farmer will have her revenge on Seattle
Dumb
Very Ape
Milk it
Pennyroyal Tea
Radio friendly unit shifter
Tourette's
All Apologies
Gallons of rubbing alcohol flow through the strip


Serve the Servants

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 (x4)

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 (x4)

That legendary divorce is such a bore

Serve the servants - Oh no (x7)

That legendary divorce is such a bore

Scentless Apprentice

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 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

Go away - get away, get a-way

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

Go away - get away, get away, get away, get away, get away, get a-way

Heart-Shaped Box

She eyes me like a pisces when I am weak
I've been locked inside your Heart-Shaped box for weeks
I've been drawn into your magnet tar pit trap
I wish I could eat your cancer when you turn back (Alt: ... when you turn black)

Hey! Wait!
I've got a new complaint
Forever in debt to your priceless advice
Hey! Wait! (Alt: Hate! Haight!)
I've got a new complaint
Forever in debt to your priceless advice
Hey! Wait!
I've got a new complaint
Forever in debt to your priceless advice
Your advice

Meat-eating orchids forgive no one just yet
Cut myself on 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

Hey! Wait!
I've got a new complaint
Forever in debt to your priceless advice
Hey! Wait!
I've got a new complaint
Forever in debt to your priceless advice
Hey! Wait!
I've got a new complaint
Forever in debt to your priceless advice
Your advice

She eyes me like a pisces when I am weak
I've been locked inside your Heart-Shaped box for weeks
I've been drawn into your magnet tar pit trap
I wish I could eat your cancer when you turn back (Alt: ... when you turn black)

Hey! Wait!
I've got a new complaint
Forever in debt to your priceless advice
Hey! Wait!
I've got a new complaint
Forever in debt to your priceless advice
Hey! Wait!
I've got a new complaint
Forever in debt to your priceless advice

Your advice (x3)

Rape Me

Rape me 
Rape me my friend
Rape me 
Rape me again

I'm not the only one (x4)

Hate me
Do it and do it again
Waste me
Rape me my friend

I'm not the only one (x4)

My favorite inside source
I'll kiss your open sores
Appreciate your concern
You'll always stink and burn

Rape me 
Rape me my friend
Rape me 
Rape me again

I'm not the only one (x4)

Rape me! (x9)

Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge On Seattle

It's so relieving
To know that you're leaving as soon as you get paid
It's so relaxing 
To hear that you're asking wherever you get your way
It's so soothing
To know that you'll sue me, this is starting to sound the same

I miss the comfort in being sad (x3)

In her false witness, we hope you're still with us,
To see if they float or drown
Our favorite patient, 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

I miss the comfort in being sad (x3)

It's so relieving
To know that you're leaving as soon as you get paid
It's so relaxing 
To know that you're asking wherever you get your way
It's so soothing
To know that you'll sue me, this is starting to sound the same

I miss the comfort in being sad (x3)

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 (x3)

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 have a hangover 

Have a hangover (x3)

Skin the sun
Fall asleep
Wish away
The soul is cheap
Lesson learned
Wish me luck
Soothe the burn
Wake me up

I'm not like them
But I can pretend
The sun is gone
But I have a light
My day is done
But I'm having fun
I think I'm dumb
Maybe just happy

Think I'm just happy (x3)

I think I'm dumb (x12)

Very Ape

I am buried up to my neck in
Contradictionary flies
I take pride as the king 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

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

(x2)
Out of the ground
Into the sky
Out of the sky
Into the dirt

Milk It

I am my own parasite
I don't need a host to live
We feed off of each other
We can share our endorphins

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

I own my own pet virus
I get to pet and name her
Her milk is my shit
My shit it is her milk

Test meat!
Doll steak!

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

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 every birthday
Your scent is still here in my place of recovery!

Pennyroyal Tea

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 eternally

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

Sit and drink Pennyroyal Tea
Distill the life that's inside of me
Sit and drink Pennyroyal Tea
I'm anemic royalty

Radio Friendly Unit Shifter

- Hmmmmmm ... I just wanna know ... do you like me? - [This is whispered in the beginning]

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

What is wrong with me (x3)

I'm gonna do with what you think
If you ever think at all
Bi-polar opposites attract
All of a sudden my water broke

I love you for what I am not
I do not want what I have got
A blanket acne'ed with ciggarette burns
Second-rate third degree burns 

What is wrong with me (x2)
What do I think of me ?

Hate, hate your enemies
Save, save your friends
Find, find your place
Speak, speak the truth

What is wrong with me (x3)
What do I think of me ?

Use just once and destroy
Invasion of our piracy
Afterbirth of a nation
Starve without your skeleton key

(x2)
What is wrong with me (x3)
What do I think of me ?

tourette's

- Moderate Rock!

Mayday every day, in my heart.
Could've had a heart attack, in my heart.
We don't know anything, in my heart. 
We all want something fair, in my heart. 
Hey! 
Hey! 
Heyyyyyyy! (x3) 

Out of town, out of sight, is my heart. 
Queen of lies, everyday, in my heart.
My heart, one more on the phone, my heart.
One more at the phone, at my heart
Hey! 
Hey! 
Heyyyyyyyyyyy! (x2)

Mean heart, cold heart, cold heart, cold heart
Cold heart, cold heart, cold heart, cold heart!

Uhhhhhhh!

Other interpretations possible.

All Apologies

What else should I be
All apologies
What else could 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 feel 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 freezeburn
Choking on the ashes of her enemy

In the sun
In the sun I feel as one
In the sun
In the sun
Married, Maried, Maried!
Buried!
Yeah yeah yeah yeah 

All in all is all we are (x20)

Gallons Of Rubbing Alcohol Flow Through The Strip

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 meal a day, a meal, I say
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, but 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

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 ... !
- Girls with trouble
It should be GIC, geeks with charvels
No, GWC, fuck man this is a waste of time ...

{laughs} 

One more solo?   Yeahhhhhhhhh!  Yeaaaahhhhh!

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.


Unplugged in NY Lyrics
About a girl
Come as you are
Jesus doesn't want me for a sunbeam / Jesus don't want me for a sunbeam
The man who sold the world
Pennyroyal Tea
Dumb
Polly
On a plain
Something in the way
Plateau
Oh me
Lake of fire
All apologies
Where did you sleep last night


About a Girl

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

I'll take advantage while
You hang me out to dry
But I can't see you every night
Free
I do

I'm standing in your line
I do ... hope you have the time
I do ... pick a number too
I do ... keep a date with you

I'll take advantage while
You hang me out to dry
But I can't see you every night
Free
I do

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

I'll take advantage while
You hang me out to dry
But I can't see you every night (x2)
Free
I do ... (x4)

Come As You Are

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 yours, don't be late. 
Take a rest, as a friend, as an old memoria 
Memoria (x3) 

Come dowsed in mud, soaked in bleach 
As I want you to be 
As a trend, as a friend, as an old memoria 
Memoria (x3) 

And I swear that I don't have a gun 
No I don't have a gun (x2) 

Memoria (x4) 

And I swear that I don't have a gun 
No I don't have a gun (x5)

Memoria

Jesus Doesn't Want Me For A Sunbeam / Jesus Don't Want Me For A Sunbeam

Jesus, don't want me for a sunbeam
Sunbeams are never made like me (Alt: Sunbeams are laughing at 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 me

Jesus, don't want me for a sunbeam
Sunbeams are never made like me (Alt: Sunbeams are laughing at me)

Don't expect me to cry,
For all the reasons you had to die
Don't ever ask your love of me

(x2)
Don't expect me to cry
Don't expect me to lie
Don't expect me to die for me

Jesus, don't want me for a sunbeam
Sunbeams are never made like me (Alt: Sunbeams are laughing at 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
Don't expect me to cry
Don't expect me to lie
Don't expect me to die for me

Originally by The Vaselines. Correct title should be "Jesus Don't Want Me For a Sunbeam".
An incorrect title, using "Doesn't", is printed on the MTV Unplugged CD and covers. Though,
I think the Vaselines used the title "Jesus wants me for a sunbeam" ... hmm.

The Man Who Sold The World

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 a surprise
I spoke into his eyes
I thought you died alone
A long long time ago

Oh no, not me
We never lost control
You're face to face
With The Man Who Sold The World

I laughed and shook his hand
And made my way back home
I searched for form and land (Alt: I searched for foreign land)
For years and years I roamed
I gazed a gazeless stare 
At all the millions here (Alt 1: We walked a million years)
(Alt 2: With multimillionaires)
(Alt 3: We walked a million hills)
I must have died alone (Alt: I must have died along)
A long, long time ago

(x2)
Who knows? 
Not me
We never lost control
You're face to face
With the Man who Sold the World

Originally by David Bowie

The Man Who Sold The World (David Bowie version)

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 his hand, and made my way back home
I searched for form and land, for years and years I roamed
I gazed a gazeless 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

Courtesy of the official David Bowie site, and Elise.

Pennyroyal Tea

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 eternally
I'm so tired I can't sleep
I'm anemic royalty
I'm a liar and a thief
I'm anemic royalty

I'm on warm milk and laxatives
Cherry-flavored antacids

Sit and drink Pennyroyal Tea
Distill the life that's inside of me
I'm anemic royalty (x2)

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 (x3)

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 have a hangover ... 
Have a hangover (x3)

Skin the sun
Fall asleep
Wish away
The soul is cheap
Lesson learned
Wish me luck
Soothe the burn
Wake me up

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

Think I'm just happy (x4)
I think I'm dumb (x12)

Polly

Polly wants a cracker 
I think I should get off 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 cut 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 cut 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 

It isn't me 
We have some seed 
Let me clip 
Your dirty wings 
Let me take a ride 
Don't cut 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 cut yourself 
I want some help 
To help myself 

Polly said 

Polly says her back hurts 
She's just as bored as me 
She caught me off my guard 
It amazes me, the will of instinct 

It isn't me 
We have some seed 
Let me clip 
Your dirty wings 
Let me take a ride 
Don't cut 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 cut yourself 
I want some help 
To help myself 

On A Plain

I'll start this off without any words 
I got so high that I scratched 'till 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 love myself better than you 
I know it's wrong so what should I do? 
I'm on a plain 
I can't complain 
I'm on a plain 

My brother died every night 
It's safe to say, don't quote me on that 

I love myself better than you 
I know it's wrong so what should I do? 

The black sheep got blackmailed again 
Forgot to put on the zip code 

I love myself better than you 
I know it's wrong so what should I do? 

I'm on a plain 
I can't complain 
I'm on a plain 

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 

I love myself better than you 
I know it's wrong so what should I do? 

And one more special message to go 
And then I'm done, then I can go home 

I love myself better than you 
I know it's wrong so what should I do? 

(x3)
I'm on a plain 
I can't complain 

Something In The Way

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 
It's okay to eat fish 
'Cause they don't have any feelings 

(x2)
Something in the way, mmm 
Something in the way, yeah, mmm 

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 
It's okay to eat fish 
'Cause they dont't have any feelings 

(x4) 
Something in the way, mmm 
Something in the way, yeah, mmm 

Plateau

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 was fun

There's 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

Well the many hands began to scan around for the next plateau
Some said it was in Greenland and some say Mexico
Others decided it was nowhere except for where they stood
But those were all just guesses, wouldn't help you if they could

Originally by the Meat Puppets

Oh, Me

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
Sprinkled with emotion
Invented at your birth?

I can't see the end of me
My whole expanse I cannot see
I formulate infinity
Stored deep inside me

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
Sprinkled with emotion
Invented at your birth?

I can't see the end of me
My whole expanse I cannot see

(x2)
I formulate infinity
Stored deep inside me

Originally by the Meat Puppets

Lake Of Fire

Where do bad folks go when they die?
They don't go to heaven where the angels fly
They go 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

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

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 try to make them their own

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

Originally by the Meat Puppets

All Apologies

What else should I be
All apologies
What else should I say
Everyone is gay
What else should I write
I don't have the right
What else should I be
All apologies

In the sun
In the sun I feel as one
In the sun
In the sun
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 freezeburn
Choking on the ashes of her enemy

In the sun
In the sun I feel as one
In the sun
In the sun

(x2)
Married
Buried

Yeah, yeah yeah yeah

(x13)
All in all is all we are (All alone is all we all are?)

Where Did You Sleep Last Night? 

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

In the pines, in the pines
Where the sun don't ever shine
I would shiver the whole night through

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

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

In the pines, in the pines
Where the sun don't ever shine
I would shiver the whole night through

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

In the pines, in the pines
Where the sun don't ever shine
I would shiver the whole night through

 

From The Muddy Banks of the Wishkah Lyrics
Intro
School
Drain You
Aneurysm
Smells Like Teen Spirit
Been A Son
Lithium
Sliver
Spank Thru
Scentless Apprentice
Heart-Shaped Box
Milk It
Negative Creep
Polly
Breed
tourette's
Blew


Intro

Kurt Screaming ...

From the 12/03/89 London, UK show.

School

(x4)
Won't you believe it
It's just my luck

(x3)
No recess

(x4)
Won't you believe it
It's just my luck

(x3)
No recess

(x8)
You're in that school again

(x7)
No recess

Drain You

One baby to another says - 
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 
I like you 

With eyes so dialated, 
I've become 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 

Chew your meat for you 
Pass it back and forth 
In a passionate kiss 
From my mouth to yours 
I like you

One baby to another says -
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 
Sloppy lips to lips 
You're my vitamins 
I'm like you 

Aneurysm

Come on over and do the twist
Overdo it and have a fit
Love you so much it makes me sick
Come on over and do the twist

Beat me outta me (x8)

Come on over and do the twist
Overdo it and have a fit
Love you so much it makes me sick
Come on over and shoot the shit

Beat me outta me (x8)

She keeps it pumpin' straight to my heart (x8)

Smells Like Teen Spirit

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? (x3) 
Hello, hello, hello! 

With the lights out, it's less dangerous 
Here we are now, entertain us 
I feel stupid and contagious 
Here we are now, entertain us 
A mulatto 
An albino 
A mosquito 
My libido 
Yay!
Hey (x2) 

I'm worse at what I do best 
And for this gift I feel blessed 
Our little tribe has always been 
And always will until the end 

Hello, hello, hello, how low? (x3) 
Hello, hello, hello! 

With the lights out, it's less dangerous 
Here we are now, entertain us 
I feel stupid and contagious 
Here we are now, entertain us 
A mulatto 
An albino 
A mosquito 
My Libido 
Yay! 
Hey (x2)

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? (x3) 
Hello, hello, hello! 

With the lights out, it's less dangerous 
Here we are now, entertain us 
I feel stupid and contagious 
Here we are now, entertain us 
A mulatto 
An albino 
A mosquito 
My libido 

A denial !! (x9)

Been a son

- One, Two, Three, Four!

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 - been a son
She should have - been a son
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
She should have had another chance

(x2)
She should have - been a son
She should have - been a son
She should have - been a son
She should have - 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 - been a son
She should have - been a son
She should have - been a son

Lithium

I'm so happy 'cause 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 (x6) 

I'm so happy 'cause today 
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 (x6) 

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 love you - I'm not gonna crack 
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 killed you - I'm not gonna crack 

I'm so happy 'cause 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 (x6) 
Yeah!

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 miss you - I'm not gonna crack 
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 killed you - I'm not gonna crack 

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

Grandma take me home (x7)
Wanna be alone

Had to eat my dinner there
Mashed potatos and stuff like that
I couldn't chew my meats too good

Never take me home (x7)
Wanna be alone

She said, well, don't you start your crying
Go outside and ride your bike
Thats what I did, I killed my toad

Never take me home (x7)
Wanna be alone

After dinner, I had ice cream
I fell asleep, and watched TV
I woke up in my mother's arms (Alt: I woke up ill in my mother's arms)

Never take me home (x14)
I wanna be alone

Spank Thru

This song is for the lovers out there (Alt: The summer was melting)
And all the lights on the trees
All the flowers have gingivitis
And the birds fly happily

We're together once again my love
I need you back, oh baby baby

I can't explain just why we lost it from the start
Living without you girl, you only break my heart ... Yeah!

I can feel it, I can hold it, I can pin it, shape it, mold it, 
I can cut it, I can taste it, spank it
Beat it while you ... Ah, wait here

I've been looking for days now (Alt: I've been looking for day glow)
Always hearing the same ol'
City boy won't you spank thru?
I can make you do things you won't think you ever could (Alt: I can make it do things you never think it ever do)

I can feel it, I can hold it, pin it, shape it, mold it, 
We can cut it, We can taste it, spank it
Beat it 'till you ... Ah, wait here

I've been looking for days now (Alt: I've been looking for day glow)
Always hearing the same ol'
City boy won't you spank thru?
I can make you do things you won't think you ever could (Alt: I can make it do things you never think it ever do)

I've been looking for days now
Always hearing the same ol'
City boy won't you spank thru?
I can make you do things you won't think you ever could 
You won't think you ever could 

Scentless Apprentice

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 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

Go away - get away, get a-way

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

Go away - get away, get away, get away, get away, get away, get away, get a-way

Heart-Shaped Box

She eyes me like a pisces when I am weak
I've been locked inside your Heart-Shaped box for a week
I've been 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 complaint
Forever in debt to your priceless advice
Hey! Wait!
I've got a new complaint
Forever in debt to your priceless advice
Hey! Wait!
I've got a new complaint
Forever in debt to your priceless advice
Your advice

Meat-eating orchids forgive no one just yet
Cut myself on 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

Hey! Wait!
I've got a new complaint
Forever in debt to your priceless advice
Hey! Wait!
I've got a new complaint
Forever in debt to your priceless advice
Hey! Wait!
I've got a new complaint
Forever in debt to your priceless advice
Your advice

She eyes me like a pisces when I am weak
I've been locked inside your Heart-Shaped box for weeks
I've been 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 complaint
Forever in debt to your priceless advice
Hey! Wait!
I've got a new complaint
Forever in debt to your priceless advice
Hey! Wait!
I've got a new complaint
Forever in debt to your priceless advice

Your advice (x3)

Milk It

I am my own parasite
I don't need a host to live
We feed off of each other
We can share our endorphins

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

I own my own pet virus
I get to pet and name her
Her milk is my shit
My shit it 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

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 every birthday
Your scent is still here in my place of recovery!

Negative Creep

This is out of our reach
Out of our reach (x2)
And it's gone

This is getting to be 
Getting to be (x2)
A drone

Negative creep (x3)
And I'm stoned!

Negative creep (x3)
And I'm ...

Daddy's little girl ain't a girl no more (x4)

Out of our reach (x3)
And it's gone

Getting to be (x3)
A drone

Negative creep (x3)
And I'm stoned!

Negative creep (x3)
And I'm ... 

Daddy's little girl ain't a girl no more (x4)

Daddy's little girl ain't a girl no more (x8)

Polly

Polly wants a cracker 
I think I should get off 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 cut yourself
I want some help
To please myself
I've got some rope
You have been told
I promise you
I have been true
Let me take a ride 
Don't cut yourself 
I want some help 
To please myself 

Polly wants a cracker 
Maybe she would like some food 
She asks me to untie her 
A chase would be nice for a few 

It isn't me 
We have some seed 
Let me clip 
Your dirty wings 
Let me take a ride 
Don't cut yourself 
I want some help 
To please myself 
I've got some rope 
You have been told 
I promise you 
I have been true 
Let me take a ride 
Don't cut yourself 
I want some help 
To please myself 

Polly said 

Polly says her back hurts 
She's just as bored as me 
She caught me off my guard 
It amazes me, the will of instinct 

It isn't me 
We have some seed 
Let me clip 
Your dirty wings 
Let me take a ride 
Don't cut yourself 
I want some help 
To please myself 
I've got some rope 
You have been told 
I promise you 
I have been true 
Want me take a ride 
Don't cut yourself 
I want some help 
To please myself 

Breed

I don't care (x2)
Care, care, care, care if I'm old 
I don't mind (x3)
Mind, mind, don't have a mind 
Get away (x2) 
Away, away, away, away from your home 
I don't mind (x2)
Mind, mind, mind ...

Even if you have 
Even if you need 
I don't even care
We could have a tree
We could plant a house
We could build a tree
I don't even care 
We could have a tree
She said (x8)

Get away (x2) 
Away, away,  away from your home 
I don't mind (x3)
Mind, mind, don't have a mind 
Get away (x2) 
Away, away, away, away from your home 
I don't mind (x2)
Mind, mind, mind ...

Even if you have 
Even if you need 
I don't even care
We could have a tree
We could plant a house
We could build a tree
I don't even care 
We could build a tree
She said (x8)

Even if you have 
Even if you need 

I don't even care
We could have a tree
We could plant a house
We could build a tree
I don't even care 
We could have all three
She said (x12)

Other interpretations possible.

tourette's - The Eagle Has Landed

- Hey bootleggers!
  So, this is a new song and we don't really feel like .. 
  actually going through the trouble of putting it out ourselves, so ...
- This song is called "The Eagle haas Landed" !
  Yeah, and its for all of you bootleggers to go ahead and go ! 

Try to find something fast, in my eyes
Oh no, that's ok, phone home
Everthing tastes the same, in my eyes
Every day, every taste, in my eyes

Hey! (x3)

Every time it's in his chin, in my eyes
Everything Tennesees, phone home
Bring it down, at the town, in my eyes
Bring it in, set it's in, in my eyes

Hey! (x3)

Try it's sound, something found, it ain't us
Round down, at the town, go home
Round down, something in, mean us
Every taste, something fake, gross

Hey! (x3)

Take ...
Mean heart ...
Mean hearts ...(x3)

Here is an alternate version of the lyrics to this song.

Down down such a fast, in my eyes 
Won't ever let you down, flown home 
Granted to your sense of sound, oh my eyes 
You and me it contains, my heart 
  
Hey! (x3)

Go dark sound check, my eyes 
Everything teddy sees, is all wrong 
Burnin' down half the town, and my house 
Entertaining suicide, well my heart 

Hey! (x3)
  
Jonestown such a frown, see yours 
Riddle meal left the town, or go home 
Rarin' round such a day, for me uh .. 
Hitch a train to Santa Fe, or go horse  
  
Hey! (x3)
  
Take ...
Mean horse ...
Mean horse ...(x3)

Other interpretations possible.

Blew

- Thank you for your patience!

If you wouldn't mind I would like to blew
If you wouldn't care I would like to blew
If you wouldn't mind I would like to leave
If you wouldn't care I would like to breathe

Is there another reason for your stain
Could you believe who we knew was stress or strain?
Here is another word that rhymes with shame

If you wouldn't mind I would like to blew
If you wouldn't care I would like to blew
If you wouldn't mind I would like to leave
If you wouldn't care I would like to breathe

(x2)
Is there another reason for your stain
Could you believe who we knew was stress or strain?
Here is another word that rhymes with shame

(x8)
You could do anything
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