Mutilated Lips

"Mutilated Lips"
"Mutilated Lips"
Promotional single by Ween
from the album The Mollusk
B-side	"Ocean Man"
Released	June 24, 1997
Recorded	1995
Genre	Neo-psychedelia; psychedelic folk; art rock; alternative rock;
Length	3:49
Label	Elektra
Songwriters	Dean Ween; Gene Ween;
Producer	Andrew Weiss
Ween singles chronology

"Mutilated Lips" is a song by American rock band Ween. It was released as the lead single from their sixth studio album, The Mollusk (1997), on June 24, 1997.

Composition

The song lyrics refer to being under the influence of psychedelic drugs¹. The song's inclusion of acoustic guitar, bongos, synths, and keyboards was said to give the song a "psych-folk trippiness".² The lyrics also make reference to the Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie I. Given the extremity of this lyrical non-sequitur, this reference may be an evolved distortion of the Salassia mollusk.

In other media

The lyrics "Mutilated lips give a kiss on the wrist of the worm like tips of tentacles expanding" were directly referenced in the novel The Procession of Mollusks (2009) by Eric E. Olson.³ The girl from "Mutilated Lips" was also a character in the novel.³

Track listing

"Mutilated Lips" – 3:49
"Ocean Man" – 2:07¹

References

"Six Appeal Music » 2011 » July". sixappealmusic.com. Retrieved 2015-01-03.
Shteamer, H. (2011). Ween's Chocolate and Cheese. Bloomsbury Academic. p. 27. ISBN 9780826431172. Retrieved 2015-01-03.
Olson, Eric E. (2008-01-01). The Procession of Mollusks. Astrophil Press. ISBN 9780982225219.

[sixappealmusic-1] "Six Appeal Music » 2011 » July". sixappealmusic.com. Retrieved 2015-01-03.

[google-2] Shteamer, H. (2011). Ween's Chocolate and Cheese. Bloomsbury Academic. p. 27. ISBN 9780826431172. Retrieved 2015-01-03.

[Olson-3] Olson, Eric E. (2008-01-01). The Procession of Mollusks. Astrophil Press. ISBN 9780982225219.

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