These Filthy Hands

By Mushroomhead

On Superbuick

Released on September 13, 1996

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[Intro]

"It can be anybody

It can look like anything at all

Anyone at all... You can never tell

Regular people... They look like human beings"


[Verse 1: Jeffrey "Nothing" Hatrix]

Haphazardly, tumbling hard

Fall right down, laugh out loud

All in the scheme of things

We're all looking up, growing tall

[Verse 2: Jason "J. Mann" Popson & Jeffrey "Nothing" Hatrix]

It's like pulling one hair - You are what you are to me

With wet fingers - In my eyes, you're a star

Petroleum jelly - You're something I'll never be

And watch the rain dance - You're something...

Something I'm frightened of - I've got to get clean

[Refrain: Jason "J. Mann" Popson]

The rain will cleanse me

And I've got to wash these filthy hands


[Verse 3: Jeffrey "Nothing" Hatrix]

Because it's all just a futile plan

That'd mean I'd have to believe again

It's like a career to breathe

Oh, an existence I can't conceive

Emotionless as in slug

In my imagined oblivion

[Verse 4: Jeffrey "Nothing" Hatrix & Jason "J. Mann" Popson]

You would swear - It's as much fun

That I could - As poking at a nerve

Walk and talk - No one wants to fail

But I doubt you will ever - But no one wants to work

Ever prove enough - Vocabulary test is graded on a curve

Smartest kid is stupid, word is never heard

I doubt you'll ever prove enough - I've got to get clean

[Refrain: Jason "J. Mann" Popson & Jeffrey "Nothing" Hatrix]

The rain will cleanse me

I doubt you'll ever prove enough

And I've got to wash these filthy hands

I doubt you'll ever prove it

[Chorus: Jason "J. Mann" Popson]

All these thoughts and feelings are for naught

Unappealing, so you expect them to dull and fade

Still they remain

All these thoughts and feelings are for naught

Unappealing, so you expect them to dull and fade

Still they remain

[Bridge: Jason "J. Mann" Popson]

Caught! Waiting for the rain

Time devours life...

With my soul as the defendant

Don't catch me if I fall, I may have jumped

You never know

You don't know me at all...

At all

[Chorus: Jason "J. Mann" Popson]

All these thoughts and feelings are for naught

Unappealing, so you expect them to dull and fade

Still they remain

All these thoughts and feelings are for naught

Unappealing, so you expect them to dull and fade

Still they remain


[Verse 3: Jeffrey "Nothing" Hatrix]

Because it's all just a futile plan

That'd mean I'd have to believe again

It's like a career to breathe

Oh, an existence I can't conceive

Emotionless as in slug

In my imagined oblivion

[Verse 5: Jeffrey "Nothing" Hatrix & Jason "J. Mann" Popson]

You would swear - Try pulling one hair

That I could

Walk and talk - With wet fingers

But I doubt you will ever

Ever prove enough - Petroleum jelly

And watch the rains dance

I doubt you'll ever prove it

[Chorus: Jason "J. Mann" Popson]

All these thoughts and feelings are for naught

Unappealing, so you expect them to dull and fade

Still they remain

All these thoughts and feelings are for naught

Unappealing, so you expect them to dull and fade

Still they remain

[Outro: Jason "J. Mann" Popson]

Caught! Waiting for the rain

Time devours life!

Waiting for the rain

Devours!