Gut Feeling/(Slap Your Mammy) Lyrics
Makes me want to clear my throat
There's a message to your movements
That really gets my goat
I looked for sniffy linings, but you're
Rotten to the core
I've had just about all I can take, you know
I can't take it no more!
Got a gut feeling, feeling
On your ability to torment
Then you took your tongs of love
And stripped away my garment
I looked for sniffy linings, but you're
Rotten to the core
I've had just about all I can take, you know
I can't take it no more!
Got a gut feeling, feeling
Slap your pappy down again
[x4]
Slap your pappy down again!
(Oh move it up and down now)
Slap your mammy down
Slap your pappy down again
(Oh move it all around now)
[x2]
come on people, it is SNIFFY linings
this is a great song, bought the album when it first came out and loved every bit of it
this song is about falling for a hot girl that is evil and having her mess you up to where it drives you nuts in the deep of your gut no matter how much you try to see any goodness in her, yet you keep on having sex with her anyways
It's about how he can taste another man (or woman) on her... That's why he wants to clear his throat. He has a gut feeling she's cheating on him. He knows she's tormenting him and he wants to dump her, but her "tongs" (tongue?) have stripped away his will. I think in the end he just winds up having anger-sex with her.
I think this song is about stalking and then (sudden change to slap your mammy) raping a girl. Its just done in the very dry DEVO way in which things of high emotions are said in the simplest terms possible.
Neonsolid, that, or someone beating/raping their spouse after they get a "gut feeling" that they're cheating?
It really should be "silver linings," since that verse is all cliches, but you know that wacky Devo, sniffy it is.
It does sound a bit like mark's singing of "sniffy linings" but it's surely it's "I looked for SILVER linings, but you're rotten to the core" .... ahhh much better.
Awesome song...I heard this off "The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou"..very odd movie, but great soundtrack.
come on, someone else has gotta like this song....
I heard it from the Dogtown and Z-Boys documentary. And damnit, it's great.
I think this DEVO song is very underrated. My favorite on the Q&A album. The melody, the lyrics... Perfect.