Crash Course In Brain Surgery Lyrics
The words are cutting deep inside my brain
Oh they're burning, quickly turning
Knife of words is driving me insane
Insane
Yeah, yeah
Please show me how to neutralize the knife
Show to me in surgery
The art of fighting words to conquer life
Conquer life
Yeah, yeah
Ooh baby, get out of my soul
Driven from my heady mouth and brain
Crash course in brain surgery
Has stopped the bloody knife of love again
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Budgie is one of the greatest rock/metal bands of all time. The consistency of their classic material is nearly unsurpassed and they have more awesome songs than one can count. Their complete lack of recognition is a travesty, pretty much. It's true that Metallica butchered most of the songs they covered...Mercyful Fate, Diamond Head, and Budgie. Their Breadfan sucks compared to the original.
I think this song is about social inability and a rocky love relationship, things going wrong, being compared with brain surgery. So basically his feelings are like having his brain knifed up...pretty gritty metaphors in this one.
'The art of finding words to conquer life' - is something he wishes he possessed, because without this art he is under the 'knife'.
a perfect description of my extremely rocky relationship and my complete lack of social ability!
a perfect description of my extremely rocky relationship and my complete lack of social ability!
the writer is fighting with his girlfriendand she has the upper hand and "the words are cutting deep inside" his "brain" or really getting to him. perhaps the raven he speaks of is his darker side asking him for help to find the words to knock this bitch off his back so he can breathe for a munite or mabe end the arguement all togather. "ooh baby i can rock and roll ooh baby get out of my soul" implys he was sucessfull in his efferts to repell her verbal assult. in the last verse he says "now the wicked lance i fear" he may have won this time but knows he is heavily out gunned and is not looking forward to the next encounter.
freakin' A - I was just listening to a budgie mix when i had to take a call from my ex. Back to budgie after and this came on - up the volume - perfect! I feel better now..
freakin' A - I was just listening to a budgie mix when i had to take a call from my ex. Back to budgie after and this came on - up the volume - perfect! I feel better now..
The song, which Burke Shelley thought, idealistically, that "this might be a cure for a lot of the world's problems, including my own," speaks of the power held in words. Simply put, our words have a power to them that can either help or hurt the world, like brain surgery for a patient. Much like words, brain surgery might help save or do nothing to help someone.
This and Breadfan, are covered by Metallica on their album Garage Inc. They cover many more songs on that album, like Stone Cold Crazy and Turn The Page.
D\By covered do you mean butchered, It's a disgrace to Budgie.
D\By covered do you mean butchered, It's a disgrace to Budgie.
I totally agree with you, I was just trying to tell the facts :)
Yeah, it's good to see budgie fans out there, good on you for spreading the word.
Thanks. Budgie are definitely one of those sadly forgotten hard rock bands from the 70s.
Yep. I only got to know them because Metallica covered some of their songs, but I am surprised that so few people actually know the band...