Marigold

Album: (Heart-Shaped Box Single)

Time: ?:??

He's there in case I wandered off
He's scared because I 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

Mexican Seafood

Album: Incesticide

Time: 1:52

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           
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            
Only hurts a night, until I sleep         

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.

Milk It

Album: In Utero

Time: 3:52

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 won 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

Molly's Lips

Album: Incesticide, Hormoaning EP

Time: 1:51

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
Kiss kiss
Molly's lips
Kiss kiss
Molly's lips
Kiss kiss

The Money Will Roll Right In

Album: ?

Time: ?:??

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

Mr. Moustache
 
Album: Bleach
Time: 3:24

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 give it cleaning
Yes I eat cow - I am not proud.

Is he in an easychair?
--Poop as hard as a rock.
I don't like you anyway
--Seal it in a box

I'm new                 [Now you]

I'm who?
I'm you




MV (a.k.a MV)
 
Album: All Apologies Single
Time: ?

She had a moist vagina
I've been tickling the circumfrence
I've been sucking the walls of her anus

Marijuana 

I prefered her to any other

Marijuana




Negative Creep
 
Album: Bleach
Time: 2:56

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

Daddy's little girl ain't a girl no more

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

Fuck! Yeah! Drone! Stoned!



Oh, Me
 
Album: Unplugged In NY
Time: ?:??

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

Originally by the Meat Puppets


Oh, the Guilt
 
Album: 7" single on Touch and Go Records [w/ "Puss" by Jesus Lizard]
Time: 3:23
 

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 afford to sit

She likes to be
She's into guilt
Guilt

She likes to think
she likes to drink
She seems too weak, she takes 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

She likes the sand
she likes to stand
She likes to sit
she likes to go
Go 

She likes to be 
She likes to go
Go 



On A Plain
 
Album: Nevermind
Time: 3:14

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




On the Mountain (a.k.a. You Got No Right)
 
Album: 
Time: 

I would never bother you
I would never promise to
I would never bother you
I would never promise to
If I say that word again
I would move away from here 
You won't be afraid of fear
You won't be afraid of fear
You won't be afraid of fear
I am walking in the piss
Always knew it would come to this
Things have never been so swell
And I have never felt so well
You know you're right
You know you're right
You know you're right

Whistle and I'll come inside
I no longer have to hide
Let's talk about someone else
She just wants to love herself
She moves away from here
She just wants to love herself
I won't move from here
You won't be afraid of fear
I won't move from here
You won't be afraid of fear
I am walking in the piss
Always knew it would come to this
Things have never been so swell
And I have never been so well
You know you're right
You know you're right
You know you're right
Maybe you're right...



Opinion
 
Album: ?
Time: 1:34

Congratulations you have won
It's a years subscription of bad puns.
And it makes your story our concern
And you set it up for returns

My opinions. Hmm. Huh. (4x)

And there seems to be a problem here.
Your state of emotion seems to clear.
You rise and fall like wall street stock
And they had an affect on our happy talk.

Our opinions. Hmm. Huh. (2x)
My opinions. Hmm. Huh. (2x)

Congratulations you have won
It's a years subscription of bad puns.
And it makes your story our concern
And you set it up for returns

Our opinions. Hmm. Huh.
Your opinions. Hmm. Huh. (3x)
My opinions. Hmm. Huh.



Paper Cuts
 
Album: Bleach
Time: 4:06

When I'm feeling tired
She pushed food through the door
And I crawl towards the crack of light
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
Nirvana

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 in my way
They come with a flash of light
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



Pay To Play
 
Album: DGC Rarities Vol. 1
Time: 3:16

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 

Give 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

I don't know why I
Pay
Pay to play 



Pen Cap Chew 
 
Album: 
Time: 

Ummm, lies again (it hurts again?)
Ummm, mine x3
Ummm, mmmm
 
You get (kill?), you get, you get, you get to me
All the years of tyrants such an easy way to go
You get, you get, you get, you get to me
Time to struggle and the scaling of fingernails
 
Ummm, lies again
Ummm, mine x3
Ummm, mmmm, You're lonely
 
Waste your time by saying he was gullible (sp?)
Give up all additions in there where it's cold
Push that gate, it is the age of red eye shame
Protest swine, go to jail, the travesty
 
Two minutes slow...slow...slow...oh
 
lyrics transcribed by Mike Farmer <(mfarmer@mail.coin.missouri.edu)


Pennyroyal Tea
 
Album: In Utero
Time: 3:36

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




Plateau
 
Album: Unplugged
Time: ?

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


Originally by The Meat Puppets



Polly
 
Album: Nevermind, Incesticide [as "(New Wave) Polly"]
Time: 2:57

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



Radio Friendly Unit Shifter
 
Album: In Utero
Time: 4:49

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 degree 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



Rape Me
 
Album: In Utero
Time: 2:49

Rape me, my friend
Rape me again

I'm not the only one 

Hate me
Do it and do it again.

Waste me
Taste me, my friend.

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



Raunchola
 
Album: Outcesticide III
Time: ??

If it's a hard, cold beat
You can go dance every night
You won't get it shown
It won't be missing the spice
You won't know that it hit ya
??????????????????????????????
Nothing'll make you win
Even the law won't fight
Yeah!

Looking to make your winning
Even if it makes you look nice
You (I?) got a sound that's nice
Watching (making?) the days go by
You can't go to the day lord's house
We don't have no doubt
We go to too many cocktails
Pimples in way..
??????????????????????????????



From: Mike Farmer (mfarmer@mail.coin.missouri.edu)


Return of the Rat
 
Album: Eight/Fourteen Songs for Greg Sage and the Wipers (Tribute Compilation)
Time: 3:05

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!

You better confess
You had better confess
You start to confess and see them through it
You better confess


Cover of a song by Greg Sage and the Wipers

Raunchola
 
Album: Outcesticide III
Time: ??

If it's a hard, cold beat
You can go dance every night
You won't get it shown
It won't be missing the spice
You won't know that it hit ya
??????????????????????????????
Nothing'll make you win
Even the law won't fight
Yeah!

Looking to make your winning
Even if it makes you look nice
You (I?) got a sound that's nice
Watching (making?) the days go by
You can't go to the day lord's house
We don't have no doubt
We go to too many cocktails
Pimples in way..
??????????????????????????????



From: Mike Farmer (mfarmer@mail.coin.missouri.edu)



Sappy
 
Album: ?
Time: ?



And if you say your prayers
You will make God happy
And if you do what's true
You will make me happy
I'll keep you in a jar
And you will seem happy
I'll give you breathing holes
You will think you're happy, now

You're in a laundry room 
You're in a laundry room 
You're in a laundry room 

And if you save yourself
You will make him happy
He'll bring you fine rewards
Then you will feel happy
I'll keep you in my room
I'm sure you'll be happy
And if you save your soul
You will think you're happy now

You're in a laundry room
You're in a laundry room 
You're in a laundry room 
You're in a laundry room 



Scentless Apprentice
 
Album: In Utero
Time: 3:47

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



School
 
Album: Bleach
Time: 2:42

Won't you believe it
It's just my luck

No recess

You're in high school again


Scoff
 
Album: Bleach
Time: 4:10

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... 



Serve the Servants
 
Album: In Utero
Time: 3:34

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



Sifting
 
Album: Bleach
Time: 5:22

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        [Sun felt numb]   
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 church
Wouldn't it be fun?
Wet your bed
Wouldn't it be fun?
Cold in gold            [Cold in coals]
Wouldn't it be fun?



Sliver
 
Album: Incesticide
Time: 2:12

Mom and dad went to a show
they dropped me off at Grandpa Joe's
I kicked and screamed, said please, oh no

        Grandma take me home
        I wanna be alone

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

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

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

        Grandma take me home
        I wanna be alone



Smells Like Teen Spirit
 
Album: Nevermind
Time: 5:01

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
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




Something In The Way
 
Album: Nevermind
Time: 3:48

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



Son of A Gun
 
Album: Incesticide, Hormoaning EP
Time: 2:47

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

Originally by The Vaselines


Spank Thru
 
Album: Sub-Pop-200 Compilation
Time: 2:47

This song is for lovers out there
And the little lights in the trees
And 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'll only break my heart...

I can feel it I can hold it I can rub it I can shape it 
I can mold it I can cut it I can taste it I can spank it
Beat it Masterbate it

I 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



Spectre
 
Album: 1989 Barnyard Demos
Time: ??

To hope is admittance
Feed before beginning
Double-sided cynics
Reflected images                       
Don't be so selfish
Leaving the image                  
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                  
All the styles of heresy              
Finally he appeared unexpectedly
Looking for company



Stain
 
Album: Incesticide
Time: 2:37

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



Stay Away
 
Album: Nevermind
Time: 3:32

Monkey see, monkey do
I don't know why I'd rather be dead 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



Swap Meet
 
Album: Bleach
Time: 3:03

They lead a lifetime that is comfortable
They travel far to keep their stomachs full
They make their living off of arts and crafts
They 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 heart
--Keeps her photographs close to her heart
--Keeps the bitterness close to the heart



Talk To Me
 
Album: 1989 Barnyard Demos
Time: 2:58

Shake it down easy, shake it down sleazy, come on
Shake it down easy, shake yourself, Suzy, come on

Don't let me detain you
Try to ride along
Don't you lie, knowing
I am not sad
I am not silly
I am not chippin'
I am not chippin' away

Talk to me
In your own language, please
In your own
Talk to me
In your own language please

Shake it down easy, make it sound seamy, doll man
Make it sound now, make it full house, sad man

Leader of the band
Makes a mental hell
I won't weather it well
Well I never
Saw it with my arm
Paint it with my heart
Paint it with my eyes and make it right

Lay down easy, lay it down seamy, sad man
Lay down easy, lay it down seamy, sad man

You don't want to hear this
Nothin' but a whore
I will play the leader
With pain
Now you know I'm needy
Lay them down easy
Lay them down easy

Talk to me
In your own language please




Territorial Pissings
 
Album: Nevermind
Time: 2:23

"Come on people now, smile on your brother, 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 there 
Gotta find a way - a better way -
I had better wait

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

"Just because you're paranoid
Doesn't mean they're not after you."




The Man Who Sold The World
 
Album: Unplugged
Time: ?

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


Originally by David Bowie



Token Eastern Song    (also known as Happy Hour)
 
Album: 1989 Barnyard Demos
Time: ??

I can read, I can write
I can breathe, proven fact
Bless my greed, greased unfold
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

If you want, to belong
And you miss, the extremes
The extremes, acted out
Practicing
Perfecting
Pressuring
Unto to me

I will wade, in the fire
To explain, your asylum
Idle times, analyzing
We'll compare, all our sightings, come on

I speak, to hear, my voice



tourette's
 
Album: In Utero
Time: 1:33
Suggested Lyrics

"...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!




Turnaround
 
Album: Incesticide, Hormoaning EP
Time: 2:17

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

Take a step outside the country
And 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 lots

Take a step outside the planet
Turn around and around
Take a look at where you are
It's pretty scary

Originally by Devo


Verse Chorus Verse [also called "Everything and Nothing"]
 
Album: No Alternative benefit compilation (uncredited track 19)
Time: 3:18

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
And you'll think you're happy now

You're in a laundry room
You're in a laundry room
The clue that came to you, oh

And if you guard 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

You're in a laundry room
You're in a laundry room
The clue that came to you, oh

You're in a laundry room
You're in a laundry room
The clue that came to you, oh

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 the shit
Then you'll think you're happy now

You're in a laundry room
You're in a laundry room
You're in a laundry room
The clue that came to you, oh




Very Ape
 
Album: In Utero
Time: 1:55

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




 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

Traditional Folk Song


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