Mouth To Mouth Lyrics

Lyric discussion by Crack Hitler 

Cover art for Mouth To Mouth lyrics by Faith No More

Ive always thought this was about how religion is nothing more than a carnival (Hence roddys keyboards) and how it has only survived via word of mouth (Just keep on passing it mouth to mouth to mouth..).

The the bit about dressing up the dead man could refer to people making more of him than he actually was.. The bit about Water and Wine I gather to be a placebo effect.

I think theres something in your Carnival remark: The musical notes played are indeed middle eastern but the actual keyboard sound is Carnival organ of the sort Mr Bungle used a lot