Mealworm Song

from Dick Lobe Plays the Hits by Dick Lobe

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well i woke up this morning
the clock was striking four (oh yeah?)
yes i woke up this morning
the clock was striking four (that early, huh?)

a draft in my room
a mealworm at my door (not again)

well i got out of bed
i slammed the door closed (i don’t blame you, dick)
i got out of bed
and slammed that door closed (those insects is trouble)

but the mealworm crept in my blankets
and it soon went up my nose (happened to my wife once)

he engineered my dreams
right there as i slept (tossing and turning all night long)
he engineered my dreams
right there as i slept (visions of cockroaches and metempsychosis)

when i woke up the room was spinning
mealworms in my cells (you got fever dreams in your brainhole?)

i could taste colors
and i didn’t know why (turning green)
i could taste my colors
and i didn’t know why (a cold sweat)

lumps under my skin
beetle’s head grow behind my eyes (you don’t look so good)

walked to the doctor’s
stumbled in the wrong door (goin’ blind)
i walked to the doctor
stumbled in the wrong door (deaf too)

he gave me an enema
then gave me one more (nuff to make you cry)

my eyeballs started bleeding
the blood was full of bugs (that’s a shame)
my nose started bleeding
my blood was full of bugs (this is so sad)

haven’t left the house for a week
shot full of tranquil drugs (tranquil drugs, huh?)

i got some insecticide
and cellophane too (insecticide?)
i got me some insecticide
sprayed it on cellophane too (cellophane?)

i’ll wrap it around my head
and die with the mealworm blues (die with the mealworm blues)

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from Dick Lobe Plays the Hits, released June 6, 2011

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