Lyrics to (In Utero)

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 
That legendary divorce is such a bore

As my bones grew they did hurt 
They hurt really bad 
I tried hard to have a father 
But instead I had a dad

I just want you to know that I 
Don’t hate you anymore 
There is nothing I could say 
That I haven’t thought before

Serve the servants, oh no 
That legendary divorce is such a bore

Scentless Apprentice

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 away 

every wet nurse refused to feed him 
electrolytes smell like semen 
I promise not to sell your perfumed secrets 
there are countless formulas for pressing flowers

I lie in the soll and fertilize mushrooms 
Leaking out gas fumes are made into perfume
You can’t fire me because I quit 
Throw me in the fire and I won’t throw a fit

Heart-Shaped Box

She eyes me like a pisces when I am weak 
I’ve been locked inside your heart-shaped box for a week 
I was drawn into your magnet tar pit trap 
I wish I could eat your cancer when you turn back

Hey 
Wait 
I’ve got a new conplaint 
Forever in debt to your priceless advice 
Hate 
Haight 
I’ve got a new complaint 
Forever in debt to your priceless advice 

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

Meat-eating orchids forgive no one just yet 
Cut myself 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

Rape Me

Rape me 
Rape me my friend 
Rape me 
Rape me again

I’m not the only one

Hate me 
Do it and do it again

Waste me 
Rape me my friend

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

Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge On Seattle

It’s so relieving to know that you’re leaving 
as soon as you get paid 
It’s so relaxing to hear you’re asking 
wherever you get your way 
I’s so soothing to know that you’ll sue me 
This is starting to sound the same 
I miss the comfort in being sad

In her false witness, we hope you’re still with us 
To see if they float or drown 
Our favorite paitent, a display of patience
Disease-covered Puget Sound 
She’ll come back as fire, to burn all the liars
And leave a blanket of ash on the ground
I miss the comfort in being sad

Dumb

I’m not like them 
But I can pretend 
The sun is gone 
But I have a light 
The day is done 
But I’m having fun

I think I’m dumb 
Or maybe just happy 
Think I’m just happy 

My heart is broke 
But I have some glue 
Help me inhale 
And mend it with you 
We’ll float around
And hang out on clouds 
Then we’ll come down 
And have a hangover, have a hangover

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

Very Ape

I am buried up to my neck in 
Contradictionary lies 
I take pride as the kind of illiterature 
I’m very ape and very nice

If you ever need anything please don’t hesitate 
to ask someone else first 
I’m too busy acting like I’m not naive 
I’ve seen it all I was here first

Out of the ground 
Into the sky 
Out of the sky 
Into the dirt

Milk It 

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

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

Doll steak, test meat

Look on the bright side is suicide 
Lost eyesight I’m on your side 
Angel left wing, right wing, broken wing 
Lack of iron and/or sleeping 
Protector of the kennel 
Ecto-plasma 
Ecto-skeletal 
Obituary birthday 
Your scent is still here in my place of recovery

Pennyroyal Tea

I’m on my time with everyone 
I have very bad posture 

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

Give me a Leonard Cohen afterworld 
So I can sigh enternally 
I’m so tired I can’t sleep 
I’m a liar and a thief 

Sit and drink pennyroyal Tea 
I’m anemic royalty 
I’m on warm milk and laxatives 
Cherry-flavored antacids

Radio Friendly Unit Shifter

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 cigarette burns 
Speak at once while taking turns 
Second-rate third defree burns

What is wrong with me 
What is what I need 
What do I think I think

This had nothing to do with what you think 
If you ever think at all 
Bi-polar opposites attract 
All of a sudden my water broke

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

Tourette’s

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!

All Apologies 

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

In the sun 
In the sun I 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 freezerburn 
Choking on the ashes of her enemy 
All in all is all we are

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 mil a day, a mil, 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 
And I haven’t had a date forever…
Ever…ever…forever

Wish I had more…more opportunity 
More chances to remember some things 
So I couldn’t have so much pressure on my… 
On my…on my…um…ah, on my…um…um…head 

We’d have so much more diversity 
And so much more input, so much more creative flow
If we had someone in school, a (GIT)

GIT…geeks…in…town 
Ha…Come on, Dave, think of one 
Dave: inaudible(girls in trouble) 
It should be GIC, geeks with Charvels 
No, GWC

Fuck, man, this is a waste of time 
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