BROWN REASON TO LIVE

The Butthole Surder's first full-length album.

Release date: 1983. (Exact date unknown.)
Re-release date: 8 October 1986.

LP Alternative Tentacles Virus 32 12" black vinyl with no band name on cover
LP Alternative Tentacles Virus 32 12" black vinyl with band name on cover
LP Alternative Tentacles Virus 32 12" brown vinyl with band name on cover

 

1 The Shah Sleeps In Lee Harvey's Grave ~2:09
2 Hey ~2:05
3 Something ~4:37
4 Bar-B-Q Pope ~3:34
5 Wichita Cathedral ~2:22
6 Suicide ~1:21
7 The Revenge Of Anus Presley ~2:22

This album is also known as "Pee Pee The Sailor" because the original pressings didn't have a title on them & Side 1's sticker says "Pee Pee the Sailor" which says to play at "69 RPM". Even the spine has no other information other than band's name, label and part number.

Butthole Surfers:
(It's unknown who performed which instruments on this album.)

Record at LOCATION UNKNOWN, DATE UNKNOWN
Produced by UNKNOWN
Recording engineer: UNKNOWN
Cover design: UNKNOWN
Back cover design: UNKNOWN

THE SHAH SLEEPS IN LEE HARVEY'S GRAVE

Music: UNKNOWN
Lyrics: UNKNOWN
Vocals: Gibby Haynes (?)

Albums:
Brown Reason To Live
Cottage Cheese From the Lips of Death

There's a time to fuck and a time to crave
But the Shah sleeps in Lee Harvey's grave

There's a time to shit and there's a time for God
That last shit I took was pretty fuckin' odd

There's a time for drugs and there's a time to be sane
But Jimi Hendrix makes love to Marylin's remains

There's a time to live and a time to die
I smoke Elvis Presley's toenails when I wanna get high

There's a time to fuck and a time to crave
But the Shah sleeps in Lee Harvey's grave

Don't look back at me! I see you tremblin'! You look like shit! I am the ultimate god! God is second to me! I am number one, motherfucker! Don't even look back! Don't even look upon me with your naked eyes!

Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! Shut up!

HEY

Music: UNKNOWN
Lyrics: UNKNOWN
Vocals: Gibby Haynes (?)

Albums:
Brown Reason To Live

Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!

Well I don't know what you can say
But even if you could, you wouldn't anyway
Let's go to hell.

Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!

Now I'm in love not with he or she
It's burning hate why don't they see
Get your hands off me

Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!

I'm burning now like a falling dove
'Cause I'm not fit to fall in love
Love?

Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!

A broken wrist was swinging on
A lover's kiss then I am gone

Something

Music: UNKNOWN
Lyrics: UNKNOWN
Vocals: Gibby Haynes (?)

Albums:
Brown Reason To Live

Something she said to me last night
Something she said to me
A saw the sunrise on the top o' my daddy's grave
And I ate some cheese and rice today

Something she said to me last night
Something she said to me
She's been talkin', talkin' behind my back
This time she's gonna bleed

You talkin' to me?
You talkin' to me?
You talkin' to me?
You talkin' to me?
You talkin' to me?
You talkin' to me?
You talkin' to me?

Something she said to me last night
Something she said to me
A saw the sunrise on the top o' my daddy's grave
And I ate some cheese and rice today

Something she said to me last night
Something she said to me
She's been talkin', talkin' behind my back
This time she's gonna bleed

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

Something she said to me last night
Something she said to me
'Cause when I kick her in the teeth she was out the door
I just know she'll be back for more

Bar-B-Q Pope

Music: UNKNOWN
Lyrics: UNKNOWN
Vocals: Gibby Haynes (?)

Albums:
Brown Reason To Live

I, calypso

Yay! Yay! Yaaaay!
Yay! Yay! Yaaaay!

I shot the bar-b-q man
I shot the bar-b-q
They shot the Pope
They shot his ass
He's holdin' out
That where it's at

Yay! Yay! Yaaaay!
Yay! Yay! Yaaaay!

I went behind my van last night (?)
I woke up sad (?)
They shot the Pope
They shot the Pope's ass
They shot the Pope and I feel good.

Yay! Yay! Yaaaay!
Yay! Yay! Yaaaay!

I, calypso
I feel you
And I wonder why
You exist
And I try to cry
I, calypso
again and again
I, calypso
I got you under my bin, that's why
I, calypso
I, calypso
I, calypso
I, calypso

Wichita Cathedral

Music: UNKNOWN
Lyrics: UNKNOWN
Vocals: Gibby Haynes (?)

Albums:
Brown Reason To Live

Whaaaah!

Wiped-out wasted Wichita
Watch out where I am
Last time I's in Wichita
I did not give a damn

Wiped-out wasted Wichita
Cathedral from withold
Last time I'm in Wichita
My God, I did not know

Wiped-out wasted Wichita
My backside is a scab
Last time I'm in Wichita
The best I ever had

Wiped-out indians on my mind
Were found in ????
Last time I's in Wichita
My God, I ????????

Whaaaah!

Wiped indians on my mind
These deeds I cannot say

Last time I got wasted there
I had to walk away

????????
????????

Last time I got crumbled up
The crow he lost his craw

Wiped out wasted Wichita
Cathedrals on my mind
Last time I got wasted there
My poor dog just went blind

Suicide

Music: UNKNOWN
Lyrics: UNKNOWN
Vocals: Gibby Haynes (?)

Albums:
Brown Reason To Live

I got a stiff upper lip beause I'm half-dead!
The walls of my life are crumbling around me!
I'm running and I can't hide
And I just might try suicide!

(I can't understand any of the rest of the lyrics.)

Revenge of Anus Presley

Music: UNKNOWN
Lyrics: UNKNOWN
Vocals: Gibby Haynes (?)

Albums:
Brown Reason To Live

Your pain makes me hungry! I'm hungry for pain! Your death is mine motherfucker! Don't even try to escape! Because you're mine! You are all mine! You're all in my thoughts! I will peel you like a potato! I will take out your brains and throw them to my dogs! Oh shit, you're gonna die! I'm gonna peel off your toenails like they were... cupcakes! Like they were... twinkies! You're dead, motherfucker! My life is nothing but to kill you! Revenge is Mine! My words make you wanna scream like a dead dog dying from anger-- and pain-- of a dead dog! Uhhhhhh... We're gonna kick some ass tonite, motherfucker! Life! Life is mine! I take you with me! I take you, I crumble you up, I wad you into a little ball! ??? picks it's teeth with your head! And still ??? ! Life! Life is mine! Yup! Revenge is mine! My war jacks off when it sees your revenge! My war is not alone! It's the only war! Anytime you get your ass down here, kick my ass, no problem! My life is better! Don't fuck with me whatsoever! Yup! Revenge is mine! I take it and I leave it! But this one, motherfucker, is mine! And you're gettin' it! You're the one that's gonna pay this time, buddy! No prob!

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