Same ideas expressed in Fitter, Happier are expressed in this song. We're told to strive for some sort of ideal life, which includes getting a good job, being kind to everyone, finding a partner, getting married, having a couple kids, living in a quiet neighborhood in a nice big house, etc. But in Fitter, Happier the narrator(?) realizes that it's incredibly robotic to live this life. People are being used by those in power "like a pig in a cage on antibiotics"--being pacified with things like new phones and cool gadgets and houses while being sucked dry. On No Surprises, the narrator is realizing how this life is killing him slowly. In the video, his helmet is slowly filling up with water, drowning him. But he's so complacent with it. This is a good summary of the song. This boring, "perfect" life foisted upon us by some higher powers (not spiritual, but political, economic, etc. politicians and businessmen, perhaps) is not the way to live. But there is seemingly no way out but death. He'd rather die peacefully right now than live in this cage. While our lives are often shielded, we're in our own protective bubbles, or protective helmets like the one Thom wears, if we look a little harder we can see all the corruption, lies, manipulation, etc. that is going on in the world, often run by huge yet nearly invisible organizations, corporations, and 'leaders'. It's a very hopeless song because it reflects real life.
In every neighborhood you got your house that’s supposedly haunted
Well in our neighborhood there’s the Hell House
And right now nobody can believe it
But there’s a sign out front of hell house
That says…
FOR SALE
(Monoxide)
They tell me you can see the chalk lines
In the middle of the living room
A sure sign that somebody musta died there
I think they said it was a bride and a groom
And I guess they both died tryin to run for the stairs
I don’t care shoot me a price
I wanna move in quick
I wanna sleep with the bodies while the blood still drips
Call me crazy but it’s just what I want
I really hope that shit happened and it’s not just a fraud
(Shaggy)
Into the kitchen
This kitchen floors full of cracked tiles and rat traps
When the sink goes on the drips will make your head crack
And those cupboard doors smackin open and closed
A priest came to do a blessin but he got hosed
Pedophile
And that’s just the beginning
Cos other shelves are stacked with plates
That be spinnin on em
And I heard the drawers open and knives get to flinging
The folks that stayed here got seventeen in em
Did you hear it?
Hell house for sale
Did you hear the hell house for sale
With the spirits
Hell house for sale
Did you hear the hell house for sale
Did you hear it
How much they want?
How much they want?
How much they want?
How much they want?
With the spirits
Hell house for sale
Did you hear the hell house for sale
(Blaze)
Into the bedroom
They say they found his wife’s body mangled on the bed
With six inch wounds in the back of her head
Her kids were there too both hanging in the closet
With one extension cord and their blood still on it
Thinking about the blood it was the most they ever saw
Ont their clothes and on the floor and on their sheets and on the walls
Noone could be prepared for the last fatal findings
Underneath the bed more mutilated grindings
(ABK)
In the house there’s a stairway leading to the attic
People say that there was a room where this witch did magic
On the 12th day of every month you could hear a yell
Like the curse on the neighborhood was sending her to hell
I was so interested I had to know more
Stole a ladder and I climbed through a window on the second floor
Straight to the attic cold chills with no surprise
Stood a girl named Amy and a witch giving evil eyes
Did you hear it?
Hell house for sale
Did you hear the hell house for sale
With the spirits
Hell house for sale
Did you hear the hell house for sale
Did you hear it
How much they want?
How much they want?
How much they want?
How much they want?
With the spirits
Hell house for sale
Did you hear the hell house for sale
(Madrox)
They say that in the basement's where it all went down
They cemented the walls and repainted the ground
To hide the blood stains and pentograms that were there before
They put a chain and padlock on the cellar door
But this is hell house aint no chains or paint stopping the shit that lurks
And lives inside the dirt
In the cracks of the framework
Don’t say it’s a tall tale,
that’s why they call it hell house and its always for sale
(Violent J)
I hear the backyard is a cemetary of bodies
And if it rains hard enough you see the top of they noggins
They got trees that they hung bodies from
It’s frightening
some nights I hear a gurgle a gasp and ropes tightening
There’s always vultures circling in the sky
And the sun never shines house covered in vines
And the smell coming outta that yard would choke a pig
I skateboard back and forth smoking a jiv
Did you hear it?
Hell house for sale
Did you hear the hell house for sale
With the spirits
Hell house for sale
Did you hear the hell house for sale
Did you hear it
How much they want?
How much they want?
How much they want?
How much they want?
With the spirits
Hell house for sale
Did you hear the hell house for sale
Did you hear it?
Hell house for sale
Did you hear the hell house for sale
With the spirits
Hell house for sale
Did you hear the hell house for sale
Did you hear it
I just wonder how much you want for that mutherfucker man cos that house is the shit!
With the spirits
Hell house for sale
Did you hear the hell house for sale
Well in our neighborhood there’s the Hell House
And right now nobody can believe it
But there’s a sign out front of hell house
That says…
FOR SALE
(Monoxide)
They tell me you can see the chalk lines
In the middle of the living room
A sure sign that somebody musta died there
I think they said it was a bride and a groom
And I guess they both died tryin to run for the stairs
I don’t care shoot me a price
I wanna move in quick
I wanna sleep with the bodies while the blood still drips
Call me crazy but it’s just what I want
I really hope that shit happened and it’s not just a fraud
(Shaggy)
Into the kitchen
This kitchen floors full of cracked tiles and rat traps
When the sink goes on the drips will make your head crack
And those cupboard doors smackin open and closed
A priest came to do a blessin but he got hosed
Pedophile
And that’s just the beginning
Cos other shelves are stacked with plates
That be spinnin on em
And I heard the drawers open and knives get to flinging
The folks that stayed here got seventeen in em
Did you hear it?
Hell house for sale
Did you hear the hell house for sale
With the spirits
Hell house for sale
Did you hear the hell house for sale
Did you hear it
How much they want?
How much they want?
How much they want?
How much they want?
With the spirits
Hell house for sale
Did you hear the hell house for sale
(Blaze)
Into the bedroom
They say they found his wife’s body mangled on the bed
With six inch wounds in the back of her head
Her kids were there too both hanging in the closet
With one extension cord and their blood still on it
Thinking about the blood it was the most they ever saw
Ont their clothes and on the floor and on their sheets and on the walls
Noone could be prepared for the last fatal findings
Underneath the bed more mutilated grindings
(ABK)
In the house there’s a stairway leading to the attic
People say that there was a room where this witch did magic
On the 12th day of every month you could hear a yell
Like the curse on the neighborhood was sending her to hell
I was so interested I had to know more
Stole a ladder and I climbed through a window on the second floor
Straight to the attic cold chills with no surprise
Stood a girl named Amy and a witch giving evil eyes
Did you hear it?
Hell house for sale
Did you hear the hell house for sale
With the spirits
Hell house for sale
Did you hear the hell house for sale
Did you hear it
How much they want?
How much they want?
How much they want?
How much they want?
With the spirits
Hell house for sale
Did you hear the hell house for sale
(Madrox)
They say that in the basement's where it all went down
They cemented the walls and repainted the ground
To hide the blood stains and pentograms that were there before
They put a chain and padlock on the cellar door
But this is hell house aint no chains or paint stopping the shit that lurks
And lives inside the dirt
In the cracks of the framework
Don’t say it’s a tall tale,
that’s why they call it hell house and its always for sale
(Violent J)
I hear the backyard is a cemetary of bodies
And if it rains hard enough you see the top of they noggins
They got trees that they hung bodies from
It’s frightening
some nights I hear a gurgle a gasp and ropes tightening
There’s always vultures circling in the sky
And the sun never shines house covered in vines
And the smell coming outta that yard would choke a pig
I skateboard back and forth smoking a jiv
Did you hear it?
Hell house for sale
Did you hear the hell house for sale
With the spirits
Hell house for sale
Did you hear the hell house for sale
Did you hear it
How much they want?
How much they want?
How much they want?
How much they want?
With the spirits
Hell house for sale
Did you hear the hell house for sale
Did you hear it?
Hell house for sale
Did you hear the hell house for sale
With the spirits
Hell house for sale
Did you hear the hell house for sale
Did you hear it
I just wonder how much you want for that mutherfucker man cos that house is the shit!
With the spirits
Hell house for sale
Did you hear the hell house for sale
Lyrics submitted by MyAntiDrugIsSuicide
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hahaha LOL. Anybody realize that the house in Scary Movie 2 was CALLED Hell House. We heard this song before we EVER seen the movie. Then when we did, my brother and busted out laughing when we seen it say 'Hell House'. That's when I said to him, "Hell House for sale, did you hear the Hell House for sale?" while I pointed at the TV screen.