Grease Paint And Monkey Brains Lyrics

Death is on the Midway
Gambling with souls
Roulette on the wire
Ace is in the hole
I sink beneath the feeling
Moon is in my hands
A crooked wheel of Twenty-One
I just don't understand - NO!
Laugh - Yeah - Drown and Laugh
Your life is over

If God is the dealer
why do we never win?
A bloody mix of silk and mud
that starts all over again
NO - Laugh - Yeah -
Drown and Laugh -
Your life is over!!
Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!

Clowns - they scare
The children
Roll around the
The ring - The
Animals they
Wanna kill
Anyone - Anything
Laugh - Yeah
Drown and
Laugh -
Your life is over!!
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Cover art for Grease Paint And Monkey Brains lyrics by White Zombie

Welcome to the circus from HELL. Very creepy and very good.

Cover art for Grease Paint And Monkey Brains lyrics by White Zombie

this song is the most hardcore metal ive ever heard.

You could check out megadeth, Slayer, Dethklok Anthrax, and Cannibal Corpse for some really really hevay shit.

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Cover art for Grease Paint And Monkey Brains lyrics by White Zombie

I believe this song is how grotesquely fragile our mortal lives are. It's like a slot machine; everythings left to probability and chance, but in the end it's all gonna go back into casino. And the fact that a midway is notorious for sapping your money out of your pocket via a rigged game (life robbing you blind.)

Cover art for Grease Paint And Monkey Brains lyrics by White Zombie

I actually kind of prefer the remix of this song on the supersexy swingin' sounds compilation. It sounds really really cool. Yeah Hanay, I think you're right with your meaning of this song. but no matter what the meaning of this song is, it's got an awesome psychadelic kick to it; I disagree with this being the most hardcore metal I've ever heard though...that would go to the up and coming band Zuckuss I believe. Star-Wars Themed Porno-Grind :D

Cover art for Grease Paint And Monkey Brains lyrics by White Zombie

The line, "There's a lot of people who are running now. I could run. It's right to run," is from George Romero's Dawn of the Dead.

Cover art for Grease Paint And Monkey Brains lyrics by White Zombie

Just knowing that his parents worked in a carnival when he was a kid and he witnessed a family friend getting hit in the face with a hammer when a riot broke out at the carnival...I feel like this song is referencing that a little with the imagery.