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This here song is about John W Smoke Junior
It's about bein' in love and lovin' the love that's hatin' the love that loves and the love and the hateless love that revolves around the loveless hate that's the hateless love and the love that's lovin' the love and the hate that's hatin' the love, it's lovin' the hate
It's about John W Smoke's mom, it's with his mom
it's about his mom it's about his mom it's about lovin his mom
and bein' without his mom and lovin' the hate that's hatin' the love
and his mom and all the time they're there
Hatin' the hate that's lovin' the hate it's love it's the loveless hate
And it goes somethin' about like this
John E Smoke, oh John E Smoke
John Smoke, oh John E Smoke
Whaoh John E Smoke, John E John E John E John
John, John Smoke
John E Smoke
Here we go
John, John was a little crippled midget lesbian boy
but he stood ten foot tall with a knife
Pretty soon a mole had appeared on John's left leg
and rope-like it extended out 469 different miles
and verily verily it was 69 different nuns
speaking simultaneously to John in 69 different languages
And then it evolved itself and it was the legless dog that become
a cyclone out of John's father's forehead
And there is was like a Twinkie with a halo storm in it
and it revolved down into the sky and talked to John
like he was a little puppy himself
And John said that I am not the magma, I am not the crust
and I shall evolve and the rain it come down and it washed on John
And he said that I will be a cigarette butt before it's all done with
And they said "No, you are the flame itself and you shall burn pure
in the South American sky where the blood dogs worship the stairway."
John E Smoke, oh John E Smoke
oh John Smoke, ooo OW!
John E Smoke, oh John E Smoke
oh oh John E Smoke
oh John E John E John E John E John E John E John E John E John E
John E John E Jooooooooooooooooo
And so brainlessly leglessly hairlessly the foil-tipped condom itself
had revealed to John that the QE-2 luxury liner had extended out of John's left side
And so it had preached to him Mars is just sram backwards
and upwardly they did evolve
Downward they fell like a thin sheet of waste product that had come up in John's body
His body was no longer the tribe vehicle to express himself
And he could not be the dog and the dog's eyes which had blood comin' out like they were
ropes around John's leg and pulled him up, like he was a canoe and and he flew
on the live essence of himself, to South America where he was in love.
It's about bein' in love and lovin' the love that's hatin' the love that loves and the love and the hateless love that revolves around the loveless hate that's the hateless love and the love that's lovin' the love and the hate that's hatin' the love, it's lovin' the hate
it's about his mom it's about his mom it's about lovin his mom
and bein' without his mom and lovin' the hate that's hatin' the love
and his mom and all the time they're there
Hatin' the hate that's lovin' the hate it's love it's the loveless hate
And it goes somethin' about like this
John Smoke, oh John E Smoke
Whaoh John E Smoke, John E John E John E John
John, John Smoke
John E Smoke
Here we go
but he stood ten foot tall with a knife
Pretty soon a mole had appeared on John's left leg
and rope-like it extended out 469 different miles
and verily verily it was 69 different nuns
speaking simultaneously to John in 69 different languages
And then it evolved itself and it was the legless dog that become
a cyclone out of John's father's forehead
And there is was like a Twinkie with a halo storm in it
and it revolved down into the sky and talked to John
like he was a little puppy himself
And John said that I am not the magma, I am not the crust
and I shall evolve and the rain it come down and it washed on John
And he said that I will be a cigarette butt before it's all done with
And they said "No, you are the flame itself and you shall burn pure
in the South American sky where the blood dogs worship the stairway."
oh John Smoke, ooo OW!
John E Smoke, oh John E Smoke
oh oh John E Smoke
oh John E John E John E John E John E John E John E John E John E
John E John E Jooooooooooooooooo
had revealed to John that the QE-2 luxury liner had extended out of John's left side
And so it had preached to him Mars is just sram backwards
and upwardly they did evolve
Downward they fell like a thin sheet of waste product that had come up in John's body
His body was no longer the tribe vehicle to express himself
And he could not be the dog and the dog's eyes which had blood comin' out like they were
ropes around John's leg and pulled him up, like he was a canoe and and he flew
on the live essence of himself, to South America where he was in love.
Song Info
Submitted by
richd-3 On May 03, 2004
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I believe that this is a story of a boy, who thought he was bad in every way, and when he actually had a real imperfection, people respected him more and thought he should roll with the cool people. He told them he was nothing good, but went anyway, thinking that something might make him better, but inside, he knew he would be nothing. So with nothing to work with, he found that the bigshots lived well except they beat the crap out of him, and right before the leader killed him, he could sense rage seeping out of him, and then they just got rid of him.
This shows why you shouldn't beat down on yourself to much or focus on your failure.
I like the way the music sounds so serious but the lyrics are totally goofed up.
I thinkthis song was made to "trip" people out. Live versions were better than the Hairway to Steven version (just my opinion). Double Live version is the best I've heard (free download on MP3 section of the surfers' official site).
John wants to be a cigarette and this is what happens.
A brilliant song, maybe the funniest song ever written. The way the guitar is played, Gibby's preaching tone, the random applause of the fictive audience, the rumbling double drums, gotta love it!
Ok, these lyrics are not accurate but the point to this song is adlibbing on drugs. This is a Psychedelic story for the ages! It changes every time played live, but remains the same…a total visual trip out when listened to on headphones high. I believe this was one of the songs they wrote during those famous acid trips they took in the caverns. If you’re a true Butthole Surfer fan, you know what I am talking about. Awesome song!
A song about a country western boy, i think some farmer camper having lived to long with his mother, turned into psychopat, and ended up as an inmate. Some parody on television interviews, who has Johney ?.. Johney was a ... Parody on western country music as well, its not a feel good song but its a turned bad song, the kid became evil. He became the cancer of his own. Its not a clear view its full of smoke and an intentionally vague life.
I\'m shocked no one has posted the meaning of this random group of words. You haven\'t heard this song if you haven\'t heard it live. There really is zero concrete meaning to this one.
I should note that it does sort of brush with Dogma a bit.
I guess they're making fun of those country singers who always tell those boring stories onstage between songs.
Btw, the lyrics posted above contain many mistakes. Better transcriptions can be found elsewhere.
then cough it up.
then cough it up.