GLASSJAW LYRICS
Worship And Tribute (2002)

1. Tip Your Bartender
2. Mu Empire
3. Cosmopolitan Bloodloss
4. Ape Dos Mil
5. Pink Roses
6. Must've Run All Day
7. Stuck Pig
8. Radio Cambodia
9. The Gillette Cavalcade Of Sports
10. Trailer Park Jesus
11. Two Tabs Of Mescaline
12. Convectuoso
13. The Number No Good Things Could Come Of


1. Tip Your Bartender

Hit it once more
For our men in uniform, with a price upon their heads.
This is a war! Sober up.
But call it what you want,
The color changes up in the sun.
Not throwing stones at you anymore.
Your name's in lights and I don't wonder
Anymore. anymore...

All my X's live with hexes.
This is why I hang
Myself with jealousy upon a fencepost half mast.
Fashion: war between
The guilty and the guilty and the guilty and the guilty
And the teen.
Not throwing stones at you anymore.
Your name's in lights and I don't wonder
Anymore... anymore

Oh yeah, I would like to..
Like to Die like mice do.
I'm crying in the beer of a drunk man.
Crying.
Not throwing stones at you anymore.
Your name's in lights and I don't wonder
Anymore.

Oh yeah, I would like to..
Like to die, like fucking mice do.
I'm crying in the beer of a drunk man.
Crying....
Buy it.
Load it.
Shoot it.


2. Mu Empire

Mr. Shiver I'm glad you sent a line.
Euphoria's endearing.
But it's cold,
We might as well retire.
To the drawer where all used things resign.

Mr. shiver, in the river,
You were sold.
You were told.
I do, I do.
If we make it over the mountain.

Dressed in leather, red ball and vault attire;
The most ironic place to be is easy...
Between my finger and the blade, right before I let the used resign.

Mr. shiver, in the river,
You were sold.
You were told.
I do, I do.
If we make it over the mountain.

You might lose the one you choose.
You might lose who won you times ten.


3. Cosmopolitan Bloodloss

Many days,
Many phases down the line.
When people whisper it makes her nervous.
It's you from the airport addressing most littlest.
In several days I just might prove worth it.

After all, After all,
Should they let you decide?

Anyway, in a way...
Walk the wire, walk the line.
When people whisper it makes her nervous.
It's you from the airport addressing most littlest.
Several days too late to unearth it.

So after all, After all,
Should they let you decide?

We are the most impassioned ugly people.


4. Ape Dos Mil

Yeah, it's over
You can bet in mid-october,
I will still be ranting 'bout early may.
Yeah he's a winner,
He's a goddamn sinner.
While he dines I'm on the wrong side of the day.
And I said, "I don't understand why I'm fumbling after"
You're the reason I cannot forget this season
Or the letter when you first referred to it.

It's all calypso.
But it's not easy to know.
You walk around with your shoulders down frowning,
But it's not easy to know.

It's over.
You can bet when mid-october end's I'll still be ranting 'bout most early may.
Yeah, he's a winner.
He's a goddamn sinner.
While he dines I'm on the wrong side of the day.
And I said, "I don't understand why I'm fumbling after"
Yeah, you're the reason I cannot forget this season,
Or the lesson how an ape shall not kill ape.

And I said,
It's all calypso.
But it's not easy to know.
You walk around with your shoulders down frowning,
But it's not easy to know.
It's just a tango.
But it's not easy, you know.
I walk around with my horns out now,
But it's not easy to know.

I'm..
I'm going under.

You can't trust a man who's a governor
Ape can't trust man.
You can't trust a man with a gun at all.
Ape can't trust me.
You can't trust me

How can you heal?
If you don't ease back the blame.
Knowing you're right, won't you heal?


5. Pink Roses

You like to carry my heart
In a bag thats broken.
You're asking when do I stop?
When the bottle's empty.
Blacker than my father's soul,
Drunk enough to raise us all.

Pink roses.

Nomad:
Drowning rat.
Black.
Black.
So black you can't even grasp the fact.
Blacker than a beggar's soul,
Rich enough to save us all.

Pink roses.

Lead with your need as god descends.
Cold in the ground.
What gets me this down?
The smell of magnesium,
The smile of a clown.

I want to drink you, scare you, f*ck you and film you.


6. Must've Run All Day

If it takes you
I don't want to.
If it makes you scared
In the bare, anyway.

If it makes you, I don't want to..
See your face when you feel
Not alive.

If you're lying in bed with the pride of a lion
Are you there?
If you're shrewd enough to be underlined
You are there.

A world premier.

If it makes you
If it takes you, I don't want to.
If it's the last thing you do...

Plagiarize.
And where's my Sandinista?


7. Stuck Pig

Lay down in this latrine in nailbomb,
In the city of Molotov,
In the province of gun,
In a whole off the highway
In the land of two suns.

Sometimes I get pissed
When
My blow goes like a quickie in the snow

But I'm sure I'll go down inside.
I chew the thorn when midnight gets too long
On the feet of a dragon.
Alone in the sun for sticking it in too long.
The seed of a bastard.

Some night's the wind pipe's covered in dope.
I pray it be covered in a rope.

Me, me, me.
Grief, grief, grief.
Beat the heat.

Grunt fuck.
Grin fuck.
Push her in the snow fuck.
The dope fiend splashes gash like a nailbomb.


8. Radio Cambodia

I'm not impressed,
I guess I'm not impressed.
With which dialect, which dialect marches best,
And who reaches heaven in what order
When our kids are baptized in mortar.

It's a shame that our messiahs move their pawns from different mountains
And we're left to dance these bodies 'round the fountain.
If a leader preaches worship to the sheep within the valley,
Who'll be riding in a tank that says "just married"?

We found that ultimately you can make it snow in the summer.

Contrary to what you believe
We oscillate and vary speed.
The food in jail is sulphury.
How do inuits spell relief?

Summer's trudging closer and a flurry of white as well.
It's the heart of nuclear winter and I'm scared as hell.


9. The Gillette Cavalcade Of Sports

I wish, I wish, I wish, I wish
A round and a bout..
Down the line I'm heir
To throne nowhere.

I wish, I wish, I wish, I wish
A mountain of doubt down the line I'm heir
To throne nowhere.
I'm scared.

Cause,

Here's where the train ride ends.
Screaming, "is this your decision?"
We were the best of friends,
I'll go nowhere.

This isn't where,
This isn't where I found you

"Life is such a ball I run the world from city hall"
And I own you all.

In this,
In this Holiday Inn..

Well,
Welcome back race fans, it's Cavalcade sport time again.
Here at the jamboree,
Home of the hits.
How you doing Bob?
It's the last stretch
And my heart.. my heart stays in the lead
And we see first, second behind my heart is my mind
Third behind my mind is my body.
Fourth behind my body is my soul
And my heart stays in the lead.
Coming around the stretch..
That was a good one Bob.

No dutch.

"Home is where the heart it is..."
"on the bus!"


10. Trailer Park Jesus

Put the needle to the record,
And hit me with your style,
Soon enough I'll,
Learn to unload to unload my mouth.
Can you feel it's getting blacker,
The vibe up in this place
When I displaced,
What made me turn my face.

I can't wait.

I jumped ship to a burning sow
Had a ball.
Atom bomb.

It was quite a dirty habit,
When the last thing I do,
Has a swine slewn,
Down martyr avenue.
Am I driftwood or hosana?
A knee-deep in disease.
I'm the body
Laid anonymously
On the beach girl
On the beach.

I jumped ship to a burning sow
Had a ball.
Atom bomb.
Killed a shark.
Atom bomb..

Denial is a river in Egypt.
Division is a reunion in the south.
Soon enough I'll learn to...
Denial is a river in Egypt
Allusive as the communion in my mouth.
Soon enough I'll learn to...

I jumped ship to a burning sow
Had a ball.
Atom bomb.
Atom bomb..

Tell the one
About the man who dug
Holes so deep
He lost sight of his word.


11. Two Tabs Of Mescaline

I smell the sound of a growing gash
With pop sensibilities.
KQED
"It's a tune that equals you."
I feel
Hallelujah
I fail,
Bulemia;
I'm frail.
Salting the back of a snail.

And...
This is worship and this is tribute
Crumbling, ripping and failing.
Knowing you fit in...
And, and,
You fit in!

Feeding time,
An old friend of mine
At the leper zoo.
Que sera?
Erotic hurrah
It's cool.
Be cool, girl.

And...
Am I worshipping or am I tributing?
Crumbling, ripping and failing.
My turkish prison is knowing I fit in.
And, and,
I fit in!

Feeding time,
An old friend of mine
At the leper zoo, yeah.
Que sera?
Erotic hurrah
With no rescue.
It's cool.
Be cool, girl.

Sailor scent.


12. Convectuoso

[hidden track]

I am caligula
Glutton of gluttons
Man over woman.
Man of all women
The whore of all man.
And I'm not ashamed to admit
It's not enough to say that I love all of you.
And I'm aroused at your lying.
We are ok
In a misguided sadist way.
We are ok.
We are ok
In a disabled veteran way.
We are ok.
She could not ever begin to imagine
The terrible engine mind.
It haunts her mind.
Family of five.
The engine mind.
I dine with wolves again.
I travel with thieves again...
And what did I teach you?


13. The Number No Good Things Could Come Of

[b-side track]

Now let me introject about this little peace we have
And all the months passed dragging through the mud,
Dragging through the mud,
Dragging down.
Helps me comment on virginity.
Help me find the price of humility.
As a matter of fact you owe me some
As a matter of fact you owe me.
And I guess,
And I guess,
And I confess,
I sometimes think I'm God,
Do I exist just to work for you?
Cancer is the proof
We will be going nowhere soon
You're the reason why
I'm always asking of you twice
Cancer is the proof
We will be going nowhere soon
You're the reason why
They're always doubting of us twice.