Mike Doughty

Vegetable

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Vegetable Lyrics

I was alone
Skipping along
Killing the song
Making it long gone

I was alone
Breaking it off
Making it soft
Trudging the road home

Sear it like a vegetable.
Scarf it like a vegetable.
Nosh it like a vegetable.

I was a chump
Making the jump
Chilling the bump
Driving the speedboat

I was a chump
Swallow a lump
Kid I smote
Picking an eighth note

Steam it like a vegetable.
Green it like a vegetable.
Braise it like a vegetable.

Out of the black. Skipping the track.
Taking it back, I make a bid for the middle
Rough wrought like a cosmonaut
I got shunned for the refund
You're restless in your best dress
I'm depressed at your swank address
Live in the machinery
Salt sea of the hex you be
Hell-bound, surround the compound
Make the words swell in a villanelle
Ah, well; you got the dweller, dispeller
Tremble when you disassemble
Scrawl a rough map on the foolscap
Mr. Weinstein, drinking the strychnine
That's why--I compel--you to swim in the wishing well

Dirty like a vegetable.
Make it like a vegetable.
Fix it like a vegetable.

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beau99 On Sep 14, 2011

Looking at the World From the Bottom of a Well

I was alone
Skipping along
Killing the song
Making it long gone

I was alone
Breaking it off
Making it soft
Trudging the road home

Sear it like a vegetable.
Scarf it like a vegetable.
Nosh it like a vegetable.

I was a chump
Making the jump
Chilling the bump
Driving the speedboat

I was a chump
Swallow a lump
Kid I smote
Picking an eighth note

Steam it like a vegetable.
Green it like a vegetable.
Braise it like a vegetable.

Dirty like a vegetable.
Make it like a vegetable.
Fix it like a vegetable.

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beau99

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2011-09-14 20:19:50

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