Metaphysical Graffiti

Dead Milkmen Metaphysical Graffiti Lyrics
1.Beige Sunshine

Cheese is the one thing that's
Indestructable
How much of your Blue Cross
Is deductable?
Open your eyes to a wicked
Surprise
You'll lose your mind if you
Just step inside
They say even Bambi was
Corruptible
The flu's coming, yes are you
Susceptible?
If only traces of lead were
Detectable
Open your brain to a new kind of pain
Just step inside and we'll all
Go insane
Please put your thoughts
Inside a receptacle
You are not one of us
Your pipes are leaking
You are an ocelot
What are you seeking? Baboons
They say say are quite interesting
Ships without rudders aren't wort commanding
Open your skull to a world that is dull
You'll find it all when you shop at the mall
People like you are not worth reprimanding
I think you need some help
I think you're way off course
Maybe you need a little breather
You should get down off your horse
Look up into the sky
Try to catch your racing thoughts
Before they burn up in the sun
Take a walk
Sit in your walking chair and breathe...
Welcome to your head
Tripping on Wonder Bread
Peer into the edge of time
See the endless light
Realize there is no time
There is only light
Feel the heat of the moment
Feel the heat of the now
Feel the heat of the beige sunshine
In the back of your mind, and breathe...


2.Dollar Signs In Her Eyes

She's been tripping over the flowers in her garden
The weeds are growing high
She dropped her laundry off at school
And hung her children on the clothesline to dry
She's throwing trash in her simming pool
She's pouring chlorine on her lawn
You might think she needs a pair of glasses
But, no, my friend you're wrong
She cannot see the beauty in a tree
Or in the life that it supplies
This should not strike you as a mystery
For she has dollar signs in her eyes
She's crashing her car in an intersection
She did not see the light
She's walking round and round in a shopping mall
As if she had no sight
Dreams are only clouds
That form and dissipate
The sky is a highway for metal birds
And land is real estate
She does not understand her world depends
Upon a history of lies
She walks right by all her old high school friends
For she has dollar signs in her eyes


3.Epic Tales Of Adventure

There's an old lady who washes her clothes
In the same laundromat as me
She told me of her son
And some shoes that hurt his feet
Mean little nails rose up in a bunch
And plunged into his soles
Filling his dirty socks with tiny bloody holes.
There's an old man who says that he came
>From the same town as my dad
He told me of his house and why it smelled so bad
Small furry creatures had crawled in the spaces
In between the walls
They died and they decayed
And I guess that's really all
Dead little creatures mean the end of the world
There was a man who told me a story about a conspiracy
He told me how it started
And what it meant to me
Doctors and lawyers and bankers and priests are
Controlled by UFO's
It's doctors and lawyers and the end of the world
Small furry creatures mean the end of the world
It's creatures and shoes and the end of the world
There's an old lady who washes her clothes
In the same laundromat as me
She told me of her son and some shoes


4.I Tripped Over The Ottoman

They calal me Robert Petry and I live in New Rochelle
With my wife Laura and son Richie but now
My life's a living hell cause
CHORUS
I tripped over the ottoman
One too many times
I tripped over the ottoman
Until I lost my MIIIIIIIIIIND
I was head writer for Alan Brady
Maybe you've seen his show
It's now funny and it makes my ears bleed
This week's guest star isn't Danny Thomas
Our special guest star is Death!
Once I laughed at Buddy's jokes but
Now my life's a living hell, 'cause...
CHORUS
Marey Amsterdam can make a sane man crazy
Morey Amsterdam can make a nice guy kill
Morey Amsterdam can make a sane man crazy
Morey Amsterdam can make a nice guy kill
What did you bring me Daddy?
What did you bring me Daddy?
What did you bring me Daddy?
WELL, I BROUGHT YOU DEATH!


5.Little Man In My Head

There's a little man in my head
And he's drunk all of the time
He sits there on a bench
Holding a monkey wrench
Sometimes he beats it up against my mind
There's a little man in my head
I don't think he likes it there
I do bad things but it's his fault
And he knows he can't get caught
That little man he just don't play fair
There's a little man in my head
And he must have lived in someone else's head before
'Cause I was born in '63
And he's only been there since '74
There's a little man in my head
And I don't think he understands me
We've got no common ground
On which to work around
He gets so bored when I watch TV
There's a little man in my head
And I don't think that he'll ever die
When he takes crontrol he really takes his toll
It's enough to make a grown man cry
There's a little man in my head
And I wish he'd find another home
There's a little man in my head
And now I'll never be alone


6.Now Everybody's Me

Everybody hates Edie Brickell
All my favorite shows are on TV
All the restaurants serve my favorite food
'Cause now everybody's me
Now my apartment's really crowded
'Cause I live there and I'm everybody
Everybody's sleeping with my girl
But, hey, everybody's me
CHORUS
Now everybody's me
Now everybody's me
Now everybody's me
Now everybody's me
Everybody's watching 'Married with Children'
Everybody's into beastiality
The stores stopped selling Amstel Light
'Cause now everybody's me
Everybody loves Charles Manson
Everybody wants to set him free
Everybody's on the parole board
'Cause now everybody's me
CHORUS
I had to put an end to war
It didn't make a lot of sense to shoot at myself
No moe Christians, Jews, Muslims or Amway
Salesmen
Just a whole planet of TV addicts
They had to lower all the basketball nets
'Cause everybody's only 5 foot 3
And everybody likes to dress like a monkey
'Cause now everybody's me


7.Part 3

I saw you naked and you were chasing a pig
So I led the police to your house and showed 'em where to dig
You thought you could live in peace
But I saw you naked and I called the police
I saw you naked and I saw the terrible things you did
I saw you naked and you know it made me sick,
I saw you naked you were camping with scouts
I know they earned some merit badges when the lights went out
How could you touch those children?
I saw you naked and you were holding a trout!


8.The Big Sleazy

It's a long way to Anchorage
But that's where I7ll go with you
We'll travel so far, dear
To escape that morning zoo
I hate MMR I hate YSP
I do not like the Grateful Dead
So just don't talk to me
I hate MMR I hate YSP
You know that classic rock
Does not interest me
People are getting angry
Maybe just they should
Cause some of us can still remember
Back when XPN was good
Peeling's woo woo woo peelings
I hate what they done to XPN
Those folk Nazis ruined my favorite station
I hate what they done to XPN
If you hear it now it's just a pale immitation
Well it's brunch with the Beatles
A tribute to Billy Joel
Four hours of Doobie Brothers
And they call that rock and roll


9.Bleach Boys

'Bleach Boys'
by The Dead Milkmen
from Beelzebubba
(c) 1988
I've got some buddies and we all drink bleach
you know we practice what we preach
We're not a drunken bunch of frat boys drunk on beer
or a stoned bunch of hippies with no careers
I wanna drink bleach with a Georgia Peach

My pals and I all drink Clorox
or eat Snowy right out of the box
Teenage suicide rate shot high and we
understand the reason why
Bleach does more than whiten socks

Don't you wanna hang out with the bleach boys baby
in a land where ministers murder golf pros?
Don't you wanna drink some bleach tonight?

Maybe there'll be a party at the beach
We'll bitch about life and chug-a-lug bleach
No ones getting high and no one's getting drunk
we got a case off bleach stashed in the trunk.
I wanna die with clorox within reach.

I'm very proud of the respect I've earned
and my voice is very deep 'cause my throat got burned.
Bleach keeps you young so I've been told
'cause no one who drinks it lives to be old
Drink it with a chaser is the first thing I learned.
Don't you wanna hang out with the bleach boys baby
in a land where midgets run for mayor?
Don't you wanna drink some bleach tonight?

I had 26 friends in the beginning
but now it seems our numbers are thinning
Some people drive fast others love to bet
still others snort coke in a private jet.
But drinking bleach is my way of winning.

(Bad guitar solo)

I'm so bored I'm drinking bleach (x472)