Middle Class Rut (MC Rut)

Cornbread

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[Sean sings:]
Maybe I'm a cornbread straight motherfucker
Maybe I'm a worn out featherless hen
Maybe I'm a cornbread straight motherfucker
Maybe I'm a worn out featherless hen

Or maybe I'm just picking seed from the wrong one and

[Both sing:]
I'm a cornbread
Can I meet you?
Can I meet you?
Can I meet you?
I'm a cornbread
Can I meet you?
Can I meet you?
Can I meet you?
No?

[Sean sings:]
La dada da da-da da
(Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh)
La dada da da-da da
(Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh)

Maybe I'm a one horse town motherfucker
Maybe I'm used up worn out man
Maybe I'm a one horse town motherfucker
Maybe I'm used up worn out man

Or maybe I'm just barking up the wrong tree and

[Both sing:]
I'm a cornbread
Can I meet you?
Can I meet you?
Can I meet you?
I'm a cornbread
Can I meet you?
Can I meet you?
Can I meet you?
I'm a cornbread
Can I meet you?
Can I meet you?
Can I meet you?
I'm a cornbread
Can I meet you?
Can I meet you?
Can I meet you?

[Sean sings:]
You spend all your life
Dicking at, dicking away at the wrong life
You're a traitor!
(Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh)
You're a traitor!
(Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh)

You spend all your time
Dicking at, dicking away at the wrong life
You're a traitor!
(Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh)
You're a traitor!
(Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh)

[Both sing:]
Maybe I'm a spineless
weak-kneed
yellow bellied he she

Maybe I'm an undercover deadbeat
Suffering cold feet

Maybe I'm a spineless
weak-kneed
yellow bellied he she

Maybe I'm an undercover deadbeat
Suffering cold feet

Or maybe I'm just shooting with the wrong gun and

[Both sing:]
I'm a cornbread
Can I meet you?
Can I meet you?
Can I meet you?
I'm a cornbread
Can I meet you?
Can I meet you?
Can I meet you?

I'm a cornbread
Can I meet you?
Can I meet you?
Can I meet you?
I'm a cornbread
Can I meet you?
Can I meet you?
Can I meet you?

I'm a cornbread
Can I meet you?
Can I meet you?
Can I meet you?

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bweiss5421 On Jan 24, 2011

[Sean sings:]
Maybe I'm a cornbread straight motherfucker
Maybe I'm a worn out featherless hen
Maybe I'm a cornbread straight motherfucker
Maybe I'm a worn out featherless hen

Or maybe I'm just picking seed from the wrong one and

[Both sing:]
I'm a cornbread
Can I meet you?
Can I meet you?
Can I meet you?
I'm a cornbread
Can I meet you?
Can I meet you?
Can I meet you?
No?

[Sean sings:]
La dada da da-da da
(Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh)
La dada da da-da da
(Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh)

Maybe I'm a one horse town motherfucker
Maybe I'm used up worn out man
Maybe I'm a one horse town motherfucker
Maybe I'm used up worn out man

Or maybe I'm just barking up the wrong tree and

[Sean sings:]
You spend all your life
Dicking at, dicking away at the wrong life
You're a traitor!
(Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh)
You're a traitor!
(Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh)

You spend all your time
Dicking at, dicking away at the wrong life
You're a traitor!
(Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh)
You're a traitor!
(Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh)

[Both sing:]
Maybe I'm a spineless
weak-kneed
yellow bellied he she

Maybe I'm an undercover deadbeat
Suffering cold feet

Maybe I'm a spineless
weak-kneed
yellow bellied he she

Maybe I'm an undercover deadbeat
Suffering cold feet

Or maybe I'm just shooting with the wrong gun and

[Both sing:]
I'm a cornbread
Can I meet you?
Can I meet you?
Can I meet you?
I'm a cornbread
Can I meet you?
Can I meet you?
Can I meet you?

I'm a cornbread
Can I meet you?
Can I meet you?
Can I meet you?
I'm a cornbread
Can I meet you?
Can I meet you?
Can I meet you?

I'm a cornbread
Can I meet you?
Can I meet you?
Can I meet you?

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2011-01-24 00:48:51

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by TinDefacto

15y ago

What the hell is this supposed to mean?

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by paris2you 13y ago

Then, your a TRAITOR!. hahha!

by dmahny88

15y ago

I don't know, but it suites the end of the album ridiculously well. I will say that "hand" should instead be "featherless hen"

This entire album speaks mainly to keep battling against strife and I believe this song would work into that idea. This song in particular reminds me of Flea from the RHCP singing his lil diddy "Pea" off of One Hot Minute. I really like how blunt they are when they sing it. So what is a corn-bred/cornbread? I would say a redneck hick that don't give a sh#t!

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by ProfW

15y ago

Weirdest song lyrics I've ever heard, but epic at the same time. <3 this band.

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by Michiganman800

12y ago

I think this is about an argument/verbal fight with someone close ( a wife/ gf, a parent) who is either very angry with him or looks down on him. This other person is the one leveling all the insults (cornbread straight MFer, worn out featherless hen, one horse town MFer, used up worn out man, spinless yellow bellied he she, undercover deadbeat). He is expressing doubt ( either verbally or to himself) about any hope of reconciliation at the end of each verse ("Or maybe I'm just[:] picking seed from the wrong one, barking up the wrong tree, shooting with the wrong gun"). The bridge ( "you spend all your time dicking at . . . the wrong life/ you're a traitor!") is him lashing out in retaliation to the insults. He manages to recompose himself and get back to his main question "Can I meet you?" The final answer is of course "No." This leads us to conclude that his suspicions that he was " barking up the wrong tree" are correct.

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by urbanoutlaw858

4y ago

Pretty sure this one is about a dude conflicted about leaving Midwest small town culture for something else.\n\nThe lyrics are definitely weird but it makes sense if you reread them again with that mindset.

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