melvins lyrics

[teeth of lions]

does anybody know how to translate the written melvins lyrics?  i always thought he mixed them up a bit, like that Mad Gab game, and i recently saw an old interview where he implied that he does just that because he doesn't have faith in the lyrics by themselves.  i've figured some out, but others seem impossibly dense.  you can tell they're written wrong, though.  if anyone can help, it would be the bomb

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[cooter]

can you explain the Mad Gab game in detail. is it some kinda crazy ass pig latin or what?

[idiotboy]

i wood be very interested to see an example of wot u mean -
the method of translation etc.

[cranky messiah]

well, the interview said "as long as you get the vowels right..."

for example, the lyrics to boris say "see boris has a whale, see through my isles."
but i'm pretty sure he really says "see boris has a way of seeing through my eyes"  and where it says "he touches an affection", i think he really says infection.  things like that. but you know how he messes with his words.  those are just two examples off the top of my head.  i could be wrong, though...

[cranky messiah]

sorry, i forgot to explain mad gab.  i found an example of it.

"ask rude arrive her" would be the sentence, and the answer would be "a screwdriver"  it's just phonetically similar phrases, and you have to guess the real phrase

[Heroin]

Cool game.
I agree with that whales and isles shit.

[Heroin]

Also, in Boris, I think when he says "master mime" he really means "mastermind".

[cooter]

BORIS:
I'd like to take, I'd like to feel wanted
Take 'em up and take 'em down
I'd like to make a lot of, Generate the one eyed males
Build 'em up and let 'em fall
Just lay 'em on and leave the lily tight
Take 'em up and take 'em down
Generate, lay 'em flat like monkey eyed man
Leave 'em built right?
Stand 'em, tie 'em down
It's like sin
Boris likes a lot of little pigs to kick
Makes every single weapon he could ever feed
Boris feed
Let friend stone friend stone lie
Let's make, let's feel wanted
Take 'em up and take 'em down
My shake, mines monkey metal
Boris knows and Boris likes it all
It's like sin
It's a killer, she's a killer maker
It reaches in and takes from a value mind, and not awake, still live
20 bulls have the back and see the lions
I got a small, got what they call a lack
A lack of half-way cut bullets on my arm
I say I can't but I really mean I won't
In their arm, or maybe up a nole
I see it all
See Boris has a whale, see through my isles
He touches an affection, a master mime
Nebulae to me my arms and legs and spine
He's got you palled
I'm sinking, told you wait, like a straight armed druid
Let 'em room

Deciphered by: Midian314159@aol.com

ANYBODY GOT ANY MORE TRANSLATIONS?

[cranky messiah]

definite:
value mind =back of your mind
has a whale, see through my isles=has a way of seeing through my eyes
maybe:
friend stone =friend stoned? or friends don't?
take em up= take enough
bullets on my arm=but it's on my own

i don't know. it's hard to tell. i think this song is about drugs, though. heroin, in particular, methinks. could be totally wrong

and i think night goat's about coke (teeth grind, clean my nose, etc)

i could just be projecting, though

[turnacuss]

Interesting thread.... does anyone have a song besides boris?

[klump]

hog leg? YOUR BLESSENED (?) honey bucket??

[Leroy]

I gave up trying to decipher the lyrics a while ago.  I just think of it as Buzzo using his voice as an instrument.

[klump]

kurt coabin said once that buzz had told him that the lyrics were equally important...hmmm,with the melvins i dont really care the small fragments i CAN decypher are killer lyrics and i think his spacing of words and "oral sounds" are pure genius

                                   

[Anonymous]

Manipulate to me my arms and legs and spine.

[Anonymous]

The only Melvins song I know the words to is "Gluey Porch Treatments":

You!
You learned how to cry
And I don't think you're sorry
You need a little smack of reality
And I'm gonna' be
Sick

Now you take the test
I ask you "Do you like it?"
I've tasted better boards on a gluey porch
And I laugh

(Something, something, something)
...really low

Good lyrics, too!