This is a sequel to 2001's "Reckless Abandon", and features the band looking back on their clumsy youth fondly.
I have no fingertips
They were burned away from too many stove trips
Can't find no fingernails
I ate them off cause I was hungry as hell
Can't read, can't clear my mind
So here I go I've got to get into this lifetime
I think I'm gonna build a fence
To keep inside what little sense
The sense of taste
The sense of smell
The sense to sit here and feel like hell
To feel like hell
The sun, the moon, the stars
Is that what you're thinking that you are
As I'll disintegrate over time
If I expect my body to try and keep up with my mind
Today everything's mine
Today everything's mine
Today everything's mine
(That was fine)
They were burned away from too many stove trips
Can't find no fingernails
I ate them off cause I was hungry as hell
Can't read, can't clear my mind
So here I go I've got to get into this lifetime
I think I'm gonna build a fence
To keep inside what little sense
The sense of taste
The sense of smell
The sense to sit here and feel like hell
To feel like hell
The sun, the moon, the stars
Is that what you're thinking that you are
As I'll disintegrate over time
If I expect my body to try and keep up with my mind
Today everything's mine
Today everything's mine
Today everything's mine
(That was fine)
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Hell Lyrics as written by Christopher Thorn Brad Smith
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i once had a friend who would make fun of my rodent like apperance. he fell off a cliff some time ago screaming "hell haf no fury like a rodent scorned" they where picking bits of that mother fuckers carcass for 3 weeks and i now believe he is nestled painfully in some cramp crevace of hell. his day of redemption had come. i have since forgiven my friend for his evil devil worshipping and have devoted my life to the lord, however if i were to see another individual as scummy as my friend i would smot them along the mountain side with a bible in one hand and crucifix in the other.
Love the sinner, hate the sin, my friend.<br /> <br /> Christianity is not about smotting people along the mountain side. It is about forgiveness and love.
This song sounds to me like it was probably written about drug addiction. It sounds especially like a bad drug comdown inspired this song. Just the fact that he said "I have no fingertips...They were burned away from too many stove trips" is a reference to crack.
yeah, defintely. I can vouch for amphetamine come downs, and this songs is pretty much along those lines. The last stanza is AWESOME. For so many hours, you think you're the sky, but over time, you just disintegrate, expecting your body, which hasn't slept in days, to keep up with your tweaked-out mind. Good stuff.
mikus-fikus... HUH?? Anyway... Very very catchy song which is a bit disturbing considering what it is about! They sure had a way of turning something terrible into a catchy little tune you can't stop singing huh? So, whiffet i agree with you 100%. I've been there myself. The "I have no fingertips..stove trips" made me think of burning and blistering your fingertips on glass tubes that are still hot from the last go... And no fingernails.. well.. you're mind is not at all hungry but your body wants to eat, plus you're wired for sound so you just eat your fingernails to the nub until they almost bleed!! I agree about the disentegrate part too. It's like you just get to the point when you look back and you haven't slept in six days, your eyes are all bloodshot, and your speech is slurring. But your brain is still RACING. I don't miss that life, and I can tell by the lyrics of this song (which was one of the last that Shannon got the chance to write) that Shannon was tired of the game as well. He just couldn't get out by himself. Makes you want to scream at everyone around him to HELP HIM. Screw the Soup tour, do it later. He could've come out with so much more!!! :( RIP hoon. :(
mikus-fikus... HUH?? Anyway... Very very catchy song which is a bit disturbing considering what it is about! They sure had a way of turning something terrible into a catchy little tune you can't stop singing huh? So, whiffet i agree with you 100%. I've been there myself. The "I have no fingertips..stove trips" made me think of burning and blistering your fingertips on glass tubes that are still hot from the last go... And no fingernails.. well.. you're mind is not at all hungry but your body wants to eat, plus you're wired for sound so you just eat your fingernails to the nub until they almost bleed!! I agree about the disentegrate part too. It's like you just get to the point when you look back and you haven't slept in six days, your eyes are all bloodshot, and your speech is slurring. But your brain is still RACING. I don't miss that life, and I can tell by the lyrics of this song (which was one of the last that Shannon got the chance to write) that Shannon was tired of the game as well. He just couldn't get out by himself. Makes you want to scream at everyone around him to HELP HIM. Screw the Soup tour, do it later. He could've come out with so much more!!! :( RIP hoon. :(
Whaat? When you make tortillas on an open stove fire, you have to quickly turn them so you don't burn your fingers. Not saying that is what he was intending to mean in this song, but there are other possiblilities and isn't difinitiely about drugs. Not every song is about drugs and even if the artist is intentionally describing such a situation, the listener can take the song to mean anything and that is what art is so please be more creative.
Instead of being a worthless crack addict, he could simply be a worthless book addict. Afterall, he does say, "can't read, can't clear my mind" meaning he possibly wasted an entire day reading and contemplating such matters like "the sun, the moon, the stars" and how his body will "disentigrate over time" and eventually become them. Yes, he wasted the day away, "today everythings mine" and his body sits while his mind is everywhere. <br /> <br /> Hey, don't fork with me, do you not see the humor? Geez!