H-ELENORE
Of all the people I’ve known / This one, you, you really hit home / Half a dozen of one thing / And a decade of another / You tried to change the time / when you stole it from your mother / I’d put my hat on my head if I had one / Lord knows what he’s got in store / Everything is shaped by a cross / And you’d do as easy as the next one / better open my eyes now / Everything at the door
best keep my eyes closed / I want to see the lights of Elenore / Of all the people left unknown / You taught me how to be alone / Elenore Moth-god, daughter of the hot-rod / Light like liquid moss covers up / The gray hard rock
lyrics by Curt Kirkwood (C)(P) 1981 Meat Puppets Music(BMI)
DOLPHIN FIELD
I want to watch the sun / Burn the backs of my eyes out / While my heart plays a tune / I want to roll on the ground / Eat shit off the ground like a pig / If I could be oriented / I would be happy
This is not all / There is much more on the floor / Than there is on the table / Like pins and half-tendons / Leaked like glue from a tube / A random search reveals / Worms at the base of my spine / But my eyes have yet to decay / I’ve been left here / With my torso and my eyes / To keep a watch on the place / Where glass birds keep a watch / On the big yellow ovaries
lyrics by Curt Kirkwood (C)(P) 1985 Meat Puppets Music(BMI)
BIG HOUSE
This house is so damn big that we all hide forever inside
We do it daily but the beneficial remains unrealized
This is the big house
nobody ever leaves
The whole thing vibrates slightly
I can feel that you’re afraid
Frightened is a state of mind
States of mind are harmful
They make you think that think that things are about to become undone
lyrics by Curt Kirkwood (C)(P) 1985 Meat Puppets Music(BMI)
TEENAGER(S)
We will compare / We will be king / Gonna be all tongues / We with our us / You with your tongues / Gonna make it to the time / On is us / Is very us / Don’t down with my number; take it / Don’t you wash with my down / The top is very us
lyrics by Derrick Bostrom (C)(P) 1982 Meat Puppets Music(BMI)
nice thanks man i’ve always wondered what the hell you guys were saying.
Left by :o on February 2nd, 2006
Hi: New listener to Meat Puppets. Very curious about any interpreted meanings of the lyrics to “Backwater”. Any confirmed notions or random ideas?
Left by scott r on February 7th, 2006
Meat Puppets lyrics defy interpretation.
Left by Derrick Bostrom on February 7th, 2006
I have looked everywhere and can’t find lyrics to “I quit”. Do you have those anywhere?
Left by Jimmie on February 21st, 2006
Sorry; that was after my time.
Left by Derrick Bostrom on February 22nd, 2006
Could you post the lyrics to “in a car” or “foreign lawns” those are the only songs i cant find the words for.
Left by steven on March 9th, 2006
Your guess is as good as mine on those. I don’t have copies of them any more.
Left by Derrick Bostrom on March 9th, 2006
Derrick… I need a drummer…you still play??? If so gimme a shout!
Left by Eugenius on March 20th, 2006
If you were the actual Eugenius — Eugene Kelly of the Vaselines — my wife wouldn’t NOT let me play with you. But mercifully, I’m retired from rock.
Left by Derrick Bostrom on March 20th, 2006
great lyrics to teenager(s), very ‘i am the walrus’…
Left by dharma bum on April 3rd, 2006
jimmie th lyrics you want are in the liner notes to the cd.
and thoes are some good lyrics there derrick.. how come you never really wrote lyrics after the first cd?
Left by charlie on April 29th, 2006
We found a better groove with the second album. My satirical style didn’t fit as well with the psychedelic desert punk style that Curt worked out.
Left by Derrick Bostrom on April 29th, 2006
oh well ok. just wondering cus i thoughtthat your humor and lyrics were great. but thanks for the answer.
Left by charlie on April 30th, 2006
Any chance you could post the lyrics to “What To Do” from one of the bonus Meat Puppet II songs?
Left by Brett on September 6th, 2006
http://www.google.com/search?hs=ySi&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&q=%22what+to+do%22+%2B+lyrics+%2B+rolling+stone&btnG=Search
Left by Derrick Bostrom on September 6th, 2006
Hi Derrick,
do you know the exact lyrics of In A Car?
how are you?
thanx for this blog.
Andrea
Left by Andrea on September 10th, 2008
I’ll have to dig those up one of these days.
Left by Derrick Bostrom on September 10th, 2008
It’s seems the lyrics of ‘big house’ aren’t complete. Granted, the vocal delivery is fairly unintelligible, but the verse after the solo doesn’t seem to be a repeat of the first. I would really like the lyrics, this is my favourite song.
Left by Morten Johansen on December 7th, 2008
hi, i was wondering if you know the lyrics to i’m not here because i heard a live version that seemed to have singing. i couldn’t understand all the words but it seemed like it had to something to do with reading a book.
btw, did you/the rest of the meat puppets listen to talking heads or the velvets?
Left by Lucy on January 8th, 2009
There’s no telling what those lyrics were. “You read the book/you want me gone/you hope I’ll go/and not stay long” or something along those lines. I don’t remember any more.
And to be sure, we listened to all the groups.
Left by Derrick Bostrom on January 8th, 2009
Looking for lyrics for In A Car, this is what I think the lyrics are..maybe they will help you remember
He said, you don’t even know
He just said you fell on your head
Through and out the doorway
I know, you were in a car crash
Oh my goodness, no
I saw him, out this door
Car is blown, and out of order
Now, all I can see
I’m in the middle, Someone’s dead
Oh No! Get out now
Someone’s dead
No, mercy, turn around
(Solo)
??????
How? How? How? You Don’t Even know!
Left by Gabe Galvez on August 23rd, 2009