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Hellbound 17 1/2 (Theme From) Lyrics

Questions deserve answers,
answers deserving action.
What am I, of the populi?
I am but a fraction.

Is there heaven, is there hell?
Is that tuna melt that I smell?
Come on.
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In an interview Les explained that the song simply was he and Ler wanting to do a theme for something. So they did this little goof of a ditty. Ironicly they would be asked to do the theme for South Park just after Tim left the group for a few years, or as I like to call them Primus' Shit Years.

Knowing Primus, this story could be true lol. If so they did a good job with it, definitely sounds like it could be the theme for some weird show or movie.

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While tripping on mushrooms at a Primus show in 1996 in Kansas City, I had a revelation of what this song may be about.. We have so many questions about life where we came from .. what it's all about and you realize how small you really are in relation to everything else.. so why worry about silly things when you can enjoy the good things and just be you "Is that a tuna melt that I smell? C'mon!" Just my little take on it..

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Perhaps from some american TV show. I've never heard of it in Britian.

@JAStewart Or here in Australia... ;) Might have to google it some day...

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Tis not a show her British buddy, but I do think this is suppose to be Primus' theme from hell.

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Why? Because the first album they made with him was the Brown Album? If not, please recognize Brain's talent by listening to the live recording of Tommy the Cat found on the album Rhinoplasty. Ain't no psuedo-Mexican like 'im!

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The brown album is one of my favorites, how is the brain albums the "shit years?"

One, this is from Tales from the Punchbowl. Two, I don't know.

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I like how philosophical it starts off, pondering questions that deserve answers and the action taken that follows those answers. Realizing that we are only miniscule fractions of the entire human population. Wondering if there is a heaven or a hell. And then being distracted simply by the possible smell of a tuna melt.