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Pen Cap Chew

Status
Nirvana Song


Song Author
Kurt Cobain


Writing Period
1987


Recording Session(s)
May 6, 1987 KAOS Radio, The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA (Out Of Order/Toy Train Crash Backside Bone Beefcake)

January 3, 1988 Bedroom, Crover Residence, Aberdeen, WA

January 23, 1988 Reciprocal Recording, Seattle, WA


Notes
The Ted Ed Fred Demo version of this song has a faded ending because they ran out of tape.


 
Availability


Alternate/Working Titles
None Documented


Common Mislabels
None Documented


Mislabels in the Bootography
Pen Cop Chew
Pen Cup Chew
Rise


Lyrics
Transcribed from official lyric sheets available at emplive.com by Chris Lawrence, and sequenced to best reflect the vocals on the 1988.01.23 demo. In instances where the sung lyrics clearly do not match the written lyrics, an approximation has been made and these unofficial lyrics are detailed in capital letters.

Features additional unrecorded chorus featured only on live versions.

PEN CAP CHEW

OoOo lesser god, OoOo I...
OoOo lesser god, OoOo I...
OoOo lesser god, OoOo I...
OoOo, OoOo...

You get you get you get, you get to me
Holy is the time it's such an easy way to go
You get you get you get, you get to me
Hide the struggle in the skin under a fingernail

OoOo lesser god, OoOo I...
OoOo lesser god, OoOo I...
OoOo lesser god, OoOo I...
OoOo lesser god, OoOo you're lonely

Waste your time by saving worthless gullibles
Kill a politician and then wear his clothes
This decade is the age of rehashing
Protest and then go to jail for trespassing
To me it's home.. go... home... go...

2nd chorus:

Can you see the reason for thy entrope?
Is there something wrong with society?
Has your conscience got to you for accidents?
Is this why unknowingly you eat your pens?




Transcribed from official lyric sheet in Journals (pg. 53) by DN member bambi


oh lesser God, oh loathe me.
oh lesser God, your lonely.
oh lesser God, oh bone me.
oh lesser God, oh oh.

you get, you get, you get, you get to me,
holy is the time it's such an easy way to go.

you get, you get, you get, you get to be,
hide the struggle in the skin under your finger nail.

oh lesser God, oh loathe me, oh lesser God, oh lonely.
oh lesser God, oh loathe me, oh lesser Dog, oh lonely.

Waste your time by saving worthless Gullables,
Kill a politixian and then wear his clothes.
this decade is the age of Re-Hashing
protest and then go to jail for tresspassing.
go home (4x's)

can you see the reason for my entrope
is there something wrong without society
Has your concience got to you for building
Trends - is that u noticing you eat your pens?
go home (8x's)

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