These lyrics are wrong, and so the meaning is lost.
From what I've gathered (I won't deny it's tough to understand) the real lyrics go as follows:
Ahh, the Lord is a monkey
Thanksgiving's comin on the Fourth of July
In the form of a girl with a needle in her eye
Well she come from out west on a nickel worth of gas
She's got her mind on her money and her dope up her ass
Outside of Phoenix had a gimme, broke down
Burned her crack and bought a rig, she was outta that town
Ohh
Well she was a Hare Krishna in the (Ashram Bare?)
She was sellin “Good as God,” had her funky ass hair
She put food in my mouth and she threw me in the bed
Where she cut off my balls and she sewed em to my head
Now she's headin back east in a '67 caddy
Got her mind on her money and her dope for her daddy
Uh
Well I met her on the street where she beat me like a fool
Then she got me accepted to an Ivy League school
Well I real did good but it's kickin my ass
I lost 38 pounds and my eye turned to glass
Well she's lookin pretty good first week of July
She's got her dope up her ass and a needle in her eye.
Thanksgiving's comin on the Fourth of July
In the form of a girl with a needle in her eye
Well she came from out west on a nickel worth of gas
Got her mind on her money and her dope up her ass
It's about meeting a drug dealing girl who got him hooked on something new. Hence, Thanksgiving in the middle of summer.
She's got the best stuff, and she's smuggling it (up her ass) across the country, west to east. The internet always disappoints on Butthole Surfer lyrics.
i give you kudos for attempting to put these lyrics together! FYI the line she you have as 'she was selling Good as God had her funky assed hair' should read:
i give you kudos for attempting to put these lyrics together! FYI the line she you have as 'she was selling Good as God had her funky assed hair' should read:
'she was selling Gil Scott, had his funky ass hair'
'she was selling Gil Scott, had his funky ass hair'
Gil Scott Heron was a poet/political activist/musician in the 60s and 70s that was big on the Black Power movement and had a famous poem/song called "the revolution will not be televised"...
Gil Scott Heron was a poet/political activist/musician in the 60s and 70s that was big on the Black Power movement and had a famous poem/song called "the revolution will not be televised"...
These lyrics are wrong, and so the meaning is lost.
From what I've gathered (I won't deny it's tough to understand) the real lyrics go as follows:
Ahh, the Lord is a monkey
Thanksgiving's comin on the Fourth of July In the form of a girl with a needle in her eye Well she come from out west on a nickel worth of gas She's got her mind on her money and her dope up her ass Outside of Phoenix had a gimme, broke down Burned her crack and bought a rig, she was outta that town
Ohh
Well she was a Hare Krishna in the (Ashram Bare?) She was sellin “Good as God,” had her funky ass hair She put food in my mouth and she threw me in the bed Where she cut off my balls and she sewed em to my head Now she's headin back east in a '67 caddy Got her mind on her money and her dope for her daddy
Uh
Well I met her on the street where she beat me like a fool Then she got me accepted to an Ivy League school Well I real did good but it's kickin my ass I lost 38 pounds and my eye turned to glass Well she's lookin pretty good first week of July She's got her dope up her ass and a needle in her eye.
Thanksgiving's comin on the Fourth of July In the form of a girl with a needle in her eye Well she came from out west on a nickel worth of gas Got her mind on her money and her dope up her ass
It's about meeting a drug dealing girl who got him hooked on something new. Hence, Thanksgiving in the middle of summer.
She's got the best stuff, and she's smuggling it (up her ass) across the country, west to east. The internet always disappoints on Butthole Surfer lyrics.
i give you kudos for attempting to put these lyrics together! FYI the line she you have as 'she was selling Good as God had her funky assed hair' should read:
i give you kudos for attempting to put these lyrics together! FYI the line she you have as 'she was selling Good as God had her funky assed hair' should read:
'she was selling Gil Scott, had his funky ass hair'
'she was selling Gil Scott, had his funky ass hair'
Gil Scott Heron was a poet/political activist/musician in the 60s and 70s that was big on the Black Power movement and had a famous poem/song called "the revolution will not be televised"...
Gil Scott Heron was a poet/political activist/musician in the 60s and 70s that was big on the Black Power movement and had a famous poem/song called "the revolution will not be televised"...