Man Man – The Ballad of Butter Beans

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  General Comment:I def agree with the Faust angle. Interestingly, on the album cover there is a fat boxer staring in the mirror in one of the rooms. This guy looks just like Butterbean, a popular if gimmicky boxer from the 90s.

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  General Comment:Bird's nest and grave dust.

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  General Comment:sorry about that posting twice. but i think it has a lot of similarities to "The tragedy of Faust" by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. in lamen's terms, guy makes a pact with the devil, he gets faust everything he wants in exchange for his soul, faust wants to back out because he meets a girl whom he falls in love with but she hates that he's followed by mephistopheles (satan). he wants no more of the pact. but he's taken down to hell anyway after things with the girl goes wrong. go read it for yourself, because i'm sure i left some stuff out.

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  General Comment:after listening to this on full blast a few times, i think i got the lyrics down pat without all the weird unicode bs. he says his stuff pretty clear in this, except the background singers make it kinda hard to hear the last line of every verse. here:
  
  
  Butter beans, I'm gonna get you
  I'm gonna stick you, I'm gonna take you down
  And then romp, I'm goin' to hell,
  You're riding shotgun.
  
  Butter beans, I'm gonna get you, I'm gonna get you, I'm gonna get you
  
  Butter beans, I know she wants you
  Bet you'll make a lovely headdress
  Or a double breasted suit of skin
  
  Butter beans, I'm gonna get you, I'm gonna get you, I'm gonna get you
  
  Butter beans, you best stay sharp
  'Cause I'm gonna free that black blood from that black heart
  I'm gonna fry I'm gonna fry with a smile on my face
  
  Butter beans, I'm gonna get you, I'm gonna get you, I'm gonna get you
  
  You think you're so slick
  I've seen her lipstick 'cross your dillsnick
  You think you're so slick
  I've seen her lipstick 'cross your dillsnick
  
  Butter beans, you go and try and hide
  In the swamp grass I got swamp eyes
  And I'll track you down like a bloodhound
  It's your time to die
  
  Butter beans I'm gonna get you, I'm gonna get you, I'm gonna get you
  
  Butter beans, you've gotten so fat
  I can barely carry your weight across my tiny back
  Taught me singing, in the end when I see you, say Amen
  
  Butter beans, I'm gonna get you, I'm gonna get you, I'm gonna get you
  
  Real thick black magic
  can't stop the tragedy from happening
  Pigs feet and snake piss,
  crow tongue and cat face
  Horse tail and bone bits
  Bird's nest and graveyards
  All of it won't keep the tragedy from happening
  So run!

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  General Comment:after listening to this on full blast a few times, i think i got the lyrics down pat without all the weird unicode bs. he says his stuff pretty clear in this, except the background singers make it kinda hard to hear the last line of every verse. here:
  
  
  Butter beans, I'm gonna get you
  I'm gonna stick you, I'm gonna take you down
  And then romp, I'm goin' to hell,
  You're riding shotgun.
  
  Butter beans, I'm gonna get you, I'm gonna get you, I'm gonna get you
  
  Butter beans, I know she wants you
  Bet you'll make a lovely headdress
  Or a double breasted suit of skin
  
  Butter beans, I'm gonna get you, I'm gonna get you, I'm gonna get you
  
  Butter beans, you best stay sharp
  'Cause I'm gonna free that black blood from that black heart
  I'm gonna fry I'm gonna fry with a smile on my face
  
  Butter beans, I'm gonna get you, I'm gonna get you, I'm gonna get you
  
  You think you're so slick
  I've seen her lipstick 'cross your dillsnick
  You think you're so slick
  I've seen her lipstick 'cross your dillsnick
  
  Butter beans, you go and try and hide
  In the swamp grass I got swamp eyes
  And I'll track you down like a bloodhound
  It's your time to die
  
  Butter beans I'm gonna get you, I'm gonna get you, I'm gonna get you
  
  Butter beans, you've gotten so fat
  I can barely carry your weight across my tiny back
  Taught me singing, in the end when I see you, say Amen
  
  Butter beans, I'm gonna get you, I'm gonna get you, I'm gonna get you
  
  Real thick black magic
  can't stop the tragedy from happening
  Pigs feet and snake piss,
  crow tongue and cat face
  Horse tail and bone bits
  Bird's nest and graveyards
  All of it won't keep the tragedy from happening
  So run!

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  General Comment:"[till you romp down I'm goin to hell you ride as shine
  ride you gone]"
  should be (i think)
  [till you romp down I'm goin to hell you're ridin' shotgun]
  
  Also,
  "Cause I'm gonna freeze out life blood [from that black heart]"
  should definitely be
  "Cause I'm gonna free that black blood from that black heart"

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  General Comment:I think these lyrics, this transcript is a little iffy, but it's a tough song. Before I criticise, I'm making a mental note to try to make my own. I love this song, and I love it.
  
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  General Comment:On one part it's '' you think your so slick I seen the lipstick cross your dillsnick '' He said it in an interview before.

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  General Comment:there's a lot of onomatopoeia in this song .
  
  what i get from it is that, possibly, butter beans sold his soul to satan (who is speaking), and satan has come to collect his due. butter beans tries to run, and doesn't want to leave his life ("...butter beans, i know she wants you..."), but satan reminds him that what he has isn't real, because satan got it for him, in exchange for his soul ("...you’ll make a lovely headdress or
  a double breasted suit...").
  
  then, butter beans attempts to hide out, and to counter satan's dark magic with some sort of spell.
  
  i've been reading a lot of harry potter lately, though, so, i guess bear that in mind.

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  General Comment:i'm pretty sure it's "you're riding shot gun"
  and "double-breasted suit of skin"
  "i can barely carry your weight across my tiny back

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