A History of Bad Men Lyrics

Lyric discussion by j113949856 

Cover art for A History of Bad Men lyrics by Melvins

Careful, this is a psychadelic song, so each lyric is very much loaded with contemplations about the universe itself. \r\n\r\n-------\r\nWake up, you never looked so glum\r\nTell me how do you know they can\'t hear us coming\r\nIt\'s easy for me, I got a head start running away\r\nKeep up for your disease spread quick so\r\nHow did you learn to be sick so\r\nCunning\r\nIt\'s easy to sing, but you just keep on humming along\r\nDid you hear that?\r\nI got a real bad feeling\r\nHow many more do you suppose they\'re keeping?\r\nDon\'t make a sound they\'re not dead, just sleeping.\r\n------\r\n\r\nWake up, it\'s a new day, a new dollar. The same old same old. And it\'s depressing.\r\n\r\nHow do you know that others don\'t know how you\'re feeling? Why should they care?\r\n\r\nIt\'s easy for me to flee social obligations, because I saw it early. But I\'m still a failure.\r\n\r\nMisery loves company, your disease spreads quick.\r\n\r\nHow did you learn to be sick, so cunning? Or rather, how did you learn to be so cunning... was it because you\'re just sick in the head?\r\n\r\nIt\'s easy to succeed and do more if you only just realize it, but instead you just keep fulfilling the minimal responsibilities that come with life, or your job, or whatever it happens to be.\r\n\r\nDid you hear that? Do you see into your future? Do you have a bad feeling?\r\n\r\nHow many more misfortunes do you suppose the mischievous elements of fate are keeping? \r\n\r\nDon\'t jinx yourself. The people who noticed you before and tried to encourage you aren\'t dead. They\'re just \'sleeping\'. If you prove yourself, they will wake up again, and engage you again. But you have to be careful, because they want something from you, and you have to have a clear enough head to recognize whether or not you should give it to them.\r\n\r\n-----\r\nDire dire dire. . .It\'s fleeting\r\nDire dire dire. . .It\'s fleeting\r\nDire dire dire. . .It\'s fleeting\r\nDire dire dire. . .It\'s fleeting\r\nDire dire dire. . .It\'s fleeting\r\nDire dire dire. . .It\'s fleeting\r\nDire dire dire. . .It\'s fleeting\r\n-----\r\n\r\nCareful with your emotions, or you may turn evil. It\'s fleeting. So is reality itself.\r\n\r\n-----\r\n\r\n

@j113949856 I tried reading through your interpretation but the formatting makes it all but impossible.

@j113949856 That\'s because I wrote with spaces and new lines, but the website formatting got rid of that - apparently replacing it with literal \'/n\' and \'/r\'. I guess there\'s something wrong with it, oh well. Must be a dying site?

@j113949856 That\'s because I wrote with spaces and new lines, but the website formatting got rid of that - apparently replacing it with literal \'/n\' and \'/r\'. I guess there\'s something wrong with it, oh well. Must be a dying site?