Mutiny in Heaven

The way this was written was driving me nuts!

Well I jumped and fled this fucking heap on doctored wings My flailing pinions with splints and rags and crutches (Damn things nearly hardly flap) Canker upon canker upon one million tiny punctures That look like That look like Long thin red ribbons draped across the arms of a little mortal girl (Like a ground plan of Hell) Curse these smarting strings These fucking ruptures Enough! Enough is enough! If this is Heaven i'm bailing out If this is Heaven i'm bailing out If this is Heaven i'm bailing out

I can't tolerate this ol tin-tub So full of trash and rats Felt one crawl across my soul For a second there, I thought I was back down in the ghetto Rats in Paradise Rats in Paradise I'm bailin out There's a mutiny in Heaven

I was born... And Lord shaking, even then was dumped into some icy font like some great stinky unclean From slum-chuch to slum-church I spilt my heart to some fat cunt behind a screen Evil poppin eye pressed up to the opening He'd slide shut the little perforated hatch at night my body blushed To the whistle of the birch With a little practice I soon learned to use in on myself Punishment? Reward! Punishment?

Well, I tied on perched on my bed I was sticking a needle in my arm I tied off Fucking wings burst out my back Like i was cutting teeth I took off

Rats in Paradise Rats in Paradise There's a mutiny in Heaven

Oh Lord, I get down on my knees I get down on my knees and start to pray

Wrapped in my mongrel wings I nearly freeze In the howling wind and driving rain All the trash blowing round and round From slum-heaven into town I take my tiny pain and rolling back my sleeve Roll and roll and roll and roll I yank the drip out of my vein

Utopiate I'm bailing out Utopiate If this is Heaven i'm bailing out

My threadbare soul teams with vermin and louse Thought come like a plague to the head in God's house

Rat's in paradise Rats in paradise Mutiny in Heaven Mutiny in heaven If this is heaven I'm bailing out

Heroin addication and one of the greatest songs about it

Most fucked up drug song ever. I love it.

Calling this a drug song is limited and overlooks the main themes of \'Mutiny in Heaven\'. The song\'s central message is the way that the idea of original sin in the Catholic Church makes children internalise guilt and ultimately self-loathing. The narrator rebels against the manipulation and control of the Church by becoming a drug user, fulfilling his Luciferian role of the song\'s title. If this is Heaven, then he\'s bailing out.

Makes Lou Reed sound like a pussy! Put this next to Heroin - both great drug songs, but this is far & away better & more real. He sees himself as Lucifer being cast out of Heaven - too many wonderful lines to pick from - "fucken wings burst out mah back (like ah was cuttin teeth)"! And that voice! The shrieks! UTOPIATE! Just amazing.

it drives me nuts too. what is the point in writing the lyrics down with emphasis on his pronunciation and aussie accent, lmfao, it just makes it harder to read.

Fucking wings burst out my back Like i was cutting teeth

ah yes... we've all been there.

the reason the lyrics were written in dialectic was because the person who wrote it had obviously read nick cave's book: "and the ass saw the angel" which is every bit as cool as a cave album and written entirely in this way - you get used to it pretty quickly and is a great read unless you have problems with reading irvine welsh, or overly florid language in which case it may be too much for a few people to bear).