Lyrics Mike Doughty

Mike Doughty

Vegetable

I was alone

Skipping along

Killing the song

Making it long gone

I was alone

Breaking it off

Making it soft

Trudging the road home

Sear it like a vegetable

Scarf it like a vegetable

Nosh it like a vegetable

Dip it like a vegetable

Fry it like a vegetable

Boil it like a vegetable

I was a chump

Making the jump

Chilling the bump

Driving the speedboat

I was a chump

Swallow a lump

Kid I smote

Picking an eighth note

Steam it like a vegetable

Green like a vegetable

Braise it like a vegetable

Cook it like a vegetable

Bake it like a vegetable

Burn it like a vegetable

Out of the black, skipping the track

Taking it back, I make a bid for the middle

Rough wrought like a cosmonaut

I got shunned for the refund

You're restless in your best dress

I'm depressed at your swank address

Live in the machinery

Salt sea of the hex you be

Hell-bound, surround the compound

Make the words swell in a villanelle

Ah, well, you got the dweller, dispeller

Tremble when you disassemble

Scrawl a rough map on the foolscap

Mr. Weinstein, drinking the strychnine

That's why I compel you to swim the wishing well

Steam it like a vegetable

Green like a vegetable

Burn it like a vegetable

Dirty like a vegetable

Make it like a vegetable

Fix it like a vegetable

Burn it like a vegetable

Dip it like a vegetable

Nosh it like a vegetable

That's right