Same ideas expressed in Fitter, Happier are expressed in this song. We're told to strive for some sort of ideal life, which includes getting a good job, being kind to everyone, finding a partner, getting married, having a couple kids, living in a quiet neighborhood in a nice big house, etc. But in Fitter, Happier the narrator(?) realizes that it's incredibly robotic to live this life. People are being used by those in power "like a pig in a cage on antibiotics"--being pacified with things like new phones and cool gadgets and houses while being sucked dry. On No Surprises, the narrator is realizing how this life is killing him slowly. In the video, his helmet is slowly filling up with water, drowning him. But he's so complacent with it. This is a good summary of the song. This boring, "perfect" life foisted upon us by some higher powers (not spiritual, but political, economic, etc. politicians and businessmen, perhaps) is not the way to live. But there is seemingly no way out but death. He'd rather die peacefully right now than live in this cage. While our lives are often shielded, we're in our own protective bubbles, or protective helmets like the one Thom wears, if we look a little harder we can see all the corruption, lies, manipulation, etc. that is going on in the world, often run by huge yet nearly invisible organizations, corporations, and 'leaders'. It's a very hopeless song because it reflects real life.
I don't want your herpes two
I don't want your herpes two
And if you give me your herpes two
Bitch, I'm gonna kill you
She went to the store to buy some slurpers
Two weeks later she came home with herpes
I just do no more than spank her
On her twat she's got a herpes chancre
She hangs out with a colony of whores
Now she's hosting a colony of scores
I'm gonna give this bitch slaps
She has sores on her piss flaps
One thing that is very certain
she's got sores on her beef curtain
The sores are spreading down her legs
They look like some scrambled eggs
she's got pus running down to her knees
You know she's packed another disease
She thinks every sex nookle is handy
The sores are doing a yanky-doodle-dandy
I don't want your herpes two
(I don't want it either!)
Bitch you belong in a zoo
And if you give me your herpes two
Slut, I'm gonna kill you
She now has herpes, she's got hte most
I don't want your herpes two
Bitch, you belong in a zoo
If you give me herpes two
Swear I'm gonna kill you
For all the sleazy guys she's grossed
She is now the local herpes host
I don't want to get no disease
she's packing the herpes
Herpes two, slut, you belong in the zoo
And if you give me herpes two
I'm gonna kill you
The smell is getting very sour
The infection is growing by the hour
And I don't want no funky disease
Like your junkie disease
I don't want your herpes two
I'm gonna have to kill you
And if you give me your herpes two
I?ll cut you with a pair of rusty scissors too
I don't want your herpes two
And if you give me your herpes two
Bitch, I'm gonna kill you
She went to the store to buy some slurpers
Two weeks later she came home with herpes
I just do no more than spank her
On her twat she's got a herpes chancre
She hangs out with a colony of whores
Now she's hosting a colony of scores
I'm gonna give this bitch slaps
She has sores on her piss flaps
One thing that is very certain
she's got sores on her beef curtain
The sores are spreading down her legs
They look like some scrambled eggs
she's got pus running down to her knees
You know she's packed another disease
She thinks every sex nookle is handy
The sores are doing a yanky-doodle-dandy
I don't want your herpes two
(I don't want it either!)
Bitch you belong in a zoo
And if you give me your herpes two
Slut, I'm gonna kill you
She now has herpes, she's got hte most
I don't want your herpes two
Bitch, you belong in a zoo
If you give me herpes two
Swear I'm gonna kill you
For all the sleazy guys she's grossed
She is now the local herpes host
I don't want to get no disease
she's packing the herpes
Herpes two, slut, you belong in the zoo
And if you give me herpes two
I'm gonna kill you
The smell is getting very sour
The infection is growing by the hour
And I don't want no funky disease
Like your junkie disease
I don't want your herpes two
I'm gonna have to kill you
And if you give me your herpes two
I?ll cut you with a pair of rusty scissors too
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Herpes Two Lyrics as written by Eldon Hoke Ed Dankey
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