Everything Hurtz

Lyrics

(1)

Come to me
Come unto me
All ye that labor
You that are heavy laden (2)
Cos everything hurts

And everything hurts

I've been pursuing the fuel too long
Got a big fat pain in my chest bone
Got a un-a-antique pocketbook
Got a big fat no-no in my chequebook
And everything hurts
And everything hurts

I got the disease tinnitus (3)
I'm speakin' like I've got Tourrette's (4)
And everything hurts 
And everything hurts 
And everything hurts 

I'm born 
I'm born

I'm dressed like a road beacon
On my way to Valhalla breakfast  (5)
And everything hurts
Can't you see the witches by my side
Following me through all my life
And everything hurts
I was born 
I was born
I was born (6)

Just born
Come to me all ye that labor and are heavy laden
I'm a dip dip dip dip dippy man
All my limbs are disconnected
And everything hurts
And everything hurts 

I've been pursuing the fuel too long
Got a big fat pain in my chest bone
And everything hurts
And everything hurts 
Everything hurts
I'm a dippa dippa dippa dippa doody man
Cos everything hurts
I got a big fat slug on my knee bone
And the back of my flange in my septum
And everything hurts
And everything hurts 

Everything hurts

(7)

Lyrics

1. Martin:

Typewritten comments about the song found on the Code: Selfish album sleeve: "HANGOVERS from it involve chicken/people/reptile hybrids crossing your bedroom." If the ailments in the song do involve hangover symptoms, then the "fuel" mentioned in it is obviously a synonym for alcohol. ("Bill Is Dead" also seems to involve a hangover in the lyrics, by the way.)

^

2. Matthew 11:28 (King James): "Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest."  

^

3. Tinnitus is a condition that is characterized by ringing and pain in the ears. 

Zack:

Putting a "z" at the end of "hurt" may also be a play on the term hertz which is the unit by which sound frequencies are measured.

^

4. Tourette's Syndrome is an inherited neurological disorder which presents in the form of difficult to control vocal tics.

^

5. Dan fills in the details about Valhalla breakfasts:

Valhalla, of course, is the Hall of Heroes/Champions of Norse myth. Warriors destined to be killed in battle (or half of them, anyway) were selected by the Valkyries, the handmaidens of Odin (there are 7 or 9 or 12 of them, depending on the version of the myth), and carried off to Valhalla. The afterlife in Valhalla seemed to consist in the einherjar (the chosen warriors) feasting (waited upon by the Valkyries) and fighting (in preparation for Ragnarök). Every morning they have breakfast, go off to battle, and so on in a never-ending cycle.

So since Valhalla breakfast is a thing, the "witches by my side" could be interpreted as the Valkyries carrying off the "I" of the song (this could be intended metaphorically, but may be literal). Though frankly I wouldn't want a Valkyrie to hear me call her that.

^

 

6. John Rearden suggests this is an "ironic allusion" to Patrick Hernandez's 1978 disco hit "born to be alive" and points out, with justification, that bits of this sound a bit like that...

Dan mentions Mushroom by Can: "I was born/And I was dead".

^

7. An inspiration for some of the lyrics may be the Kinks' "Where Did The Spring Go?" which asks "Why am I cold now?/Why does my skin sag?/Why ain't my back straight?/Why do my feet ache?/Where did my youth go?/Where did my life go?"  

Zack points out "Putting a 'z' at the end of 'hurt' may also be a play on the term hertz which is the unit by which sound frequencies are measured."

^


 

Comments (32)

policetruck
  • 1. policetruck | 04/09/2013
"Im a hip dip dip dip dippy man" is what I hear. This was a b-side to Free Range and, if I'm correct about the lyric, was oddly released one week before Deeply Dippy by Right Said Fred.
policetruck
  • 2. policetruck | 04/09/2013
Just to add that that's the earlier bit, the later part sounds like "I'm a dippy dippy dippy dippy doo dah man"
Mark
  • 3. Mark | 03/07/2014
I agree with policetruck. I hear "I'm a dippy-dippy-dippy-dippy-dooby man" and ISTR that said lyric was featured in the "Code: Selfish: liner notes.
bzfgt
  • 4. bzfgt | 15/07/2014
OK.
bzfgt
  • 5. bzfgt | 15/07/2014
Please check the notes if you get a chance, I'm estranged from my CDs right now.
Mark
  • 6. Mark | 16/07/2014
The liner notes just say 'edit out from "Hippy dippy" to next drum roll'.
Zack
  • 7. Zack | 02/06/2016
Putting a "z" at the end of "hurt" may also be a play on the term hertz which is the unit by which sound frequencies are measured.
Martin
  • 8. Martin | 26/03/2017
Typewritten comments about the song found on the Code: Selfish album sleeve:

"HANGOVERS from it involve chicken/people/reptile hybrids crossing your bedroom."

If the ailments in the song do involve hangover symptoms, then the "fuel" mentioned in it is obviously a synonym for alcohol. ("Bill Is Dead" also seems to involve a hangover in the lyrics, by the way.)
bzfgt
  • 9. bzfgt (link) | 01/04/2017
Martin, is there an antecedent to "it"?
dannyno
  • 10. dannyno | 04/04/2017

I'm dressed like a road beacon
On my way to Valhalla breakfast
And everything hurts
Can't you see the bitches by my side


Valhalla, of course, is the Hall of Heroes/Champions of Norse myth. Warriors destined to be killed in battle (or half of them, anyway) were selected by the Valkyries, the handmaidens of Odin (there are 7 or 9 or 12 of them, depending on the version of the myth), and carried off to Valhalla. The afterlife in Valhalla seemed to consist in the einherjar (the chosen warriors) feasting (waited upon by the Valkyries) and fighting (in preparation for Ragnarök). Every morning they have breakfast, go off to battle, and so on in a never-ending cycle.

So since Valhalla breakfast is a thing, the "bitches by my side" could be interpreted as the Valkyries carrying off the "I" of the song (this could be intended metaphorically, but may be literal). Though frankly I wouldn't want a Valkyrie to hear me call them that.
Martin
  • 11. Martin | 17/04/2017
Reply to comment 9: No.
bzfgt
  • 12. bzfgt (link) | 29/04/2017
It's astounding that I never put a note for Valhalla. Thanks for doing the spade work.
CalClay
  • 13. CalClay | 12/03/2018
I think this song is something to do with the drug ecstasy. After reading renegade there’s a section in which MES discusses taking ecstasy, in which he hallucinated seeing ‘chickens in the road’ and having the ‘worst kinds of hangovers’ from taking it.
bzfgt
  • 14. bzfgt (link) | 21/03/2018
Certainly could be, it would fit with a drug hangover.
John Reardon
  • 15. John Reardon | 06/12/2018
MES's repetition of "I was born… I was born... I was born..." (inaccurately rendered above) is surely an ironic allusion to Patrick Hernandez's 1979 disco hit "Born to Be Alive"), as Everything Hurtz is about the down-side of trying to life to the full. There's an occasional melodic resemblance as well.
dannyno
  • 16. dannyno | 10/12/2018
Could "I was born" be half a quotation from the lyrics to the Can song, Mushroom?

"I was born, and I was dead"
bzfgt
  • 17. bzfgt (link) | 12/01/2019
OK going through the lyrics to this now
bzfgt
  • 18. bzfgt (link) | 12/01/2019
I got a un-a-antique pocket book

Some more little changes I hear, see above
bzfgt
  • 19. bzfgt (link) | 12/01/2019
So far (first chorus) I hear "I'm born," not "I was born"
bzfgt
  • 20. bzfgt (link) | 12/01/2019
"Following me" gone, it's "One of them means to own my life"

Maybe we'll beat Paul Go to the punch with this one...
bzfgt
  • 21. bzfgt (link) | 12/01/2019
OK got some "I was born" now, we just didn't have the repetitions on that one
bzfgt
  • 22. bzfgt (link) | 19/01/2019
16: yeah but it's a little too generic
AMP
  • 23. AMP | 23/11/2019
“Got a big fat pain in my jizz ball”?
AMP
  • 24. AMP | 23/11/2019
....which perhaps puts a different spin on “I got a big fat slug on my knee bone” and lot of the other lyrics invite a similar interpretation...“I was born” etc...
bzfgt
  • 25. bzfgt (link) | 27/11/2019
OK fuck seems like worth mentioning Mushroom tonight.

And I don't know about "jizz ball"
samstardust
  • 26. samstardust | 23/12/2019
It's actually 'Can't you see the witches by my side
Following me through all my life'
bzfgt
  • 27. bzfgt (link) | 30/12/2019
OK damn it I just listened and I hear it just like samstardust says in comment 26 now.
dannyno
  • 28. dannyno | 05/01/2020
I had a listen. And to some live versions. I can hear it as "witches", and it's probably better than "bitches" anyway in the context of the Valkyries.
bzfgt
  • 29. bzfgt (link) | 19/01/2020
Agree, I just thought that as I adjusted your Valkyrie comment
Brendan O'Leary
  • 30. Brendan O'Leary | 08/04/2023
Seems that the whole piece is a meditation on life as pain as the purported solace that religion, whether it be Buddhism (I was born / Everything Hurtz), Christianity (Come to me all ye that labour and are heavy laden) or belief in a Viking afterlife (Valhalla etc). Opium of the masses.
harleyr
  • 31. harleyr | 05/07/2023
>>Come to me
Come unto me

Am I the only one who hears this as..?

Come to me
Come on to me

Always makes me smile when I hear it.
Mark Oliver
  • 32. Mark Oliver | 25/09/2023
The 'Dippa Dippa Dippa Dippa Doody Man' line reminds me of a TV advert waaaaayyyy back in the 60s for a brand of styling gel called 'Dippity-Do'...the name of the product was repeated over and over in a singsong American voice.

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