Without My Tonsils

Without My Tonsils
Song
Artist	Lemon Demon
Written by	Neil Cicierega
Appears on	Live From The Haunted Candle Shop
Sung by	Neil Cicierega
Duration	4:07
Genre	Rock
Language	English
Links:	MP3

Without My Tonsils is the fourteenth track on Live From The Haunted Candle Shop.

Lyrics

Without my hands
Without my nose
Without my fangs
Without my clothes
Without my nervous system
Without my brain
Without my tonsils
I’m not the same

Without my brand of humor
Um…
Without my so-so fashion sense
Without my love for all things funky
Without my lack of pretense

Without my repetitive behavior
Without my repetitive behavior
Without my occasional deviation
Without my repetitive behavior

Without my hands
Without my nose
Without my fangs
Without my clothes
Without my nervous system
Without my brain
Without my tonsils
I’m not the same as I was just a moment ago
Better to stick to the things you know
Doesn’t it suck when it all changes
Doesn’t it feel like you’ve been vanquished

First you have hands, and then you don’t
First you have a nose, and then you don’t
First you have fangs, and then you don’t
First you have clothes, and then you don’t
And then you don’t
And then you wake up
You shower and you brush your teeth
You have a bowl of Special K, ‘cause it’s a Special Day
But it’s just the same as any other day
The only difference is you have no soul
And no fangs, and no brain, and no chains, and apparently no say

Dear God, why is it raining outside?
Dear God, why is everything glowing oddly?
Dear God, I think I’m in a loophole
Dear God, what do you suggest I do?

I want to do the opposite of what I did before I knew I wanted to
I want to do the opposite of what I did before I knew I wanted to
I want to do the opposite of what I did before I knew I wanted to
I want to do the opposite of what I did before I knew I wanted to
I want to be myself, as long as being myself is popular among my peers
I want to be myself, as long as being myself is popular among my peers
I want to do the opposite of what I did before I knew I wanted to
I want to do the opposite of what I did before I knew I wanted to
B… A… whatever it is whatever it is whatever it is whatever it is
Whatever it is whatever it is whatever it is whatever it is
(Whatever it is)

Please excuse the following half-assed segue.
Without my hands
Without my nose
Without my fangs
Without my clothes
Without my nervous system
Without my brain
Without my tonsils
I’m not the same

Disappointing ending
Disappointing ending
Disappointing ending
Disappointing ending
Disappointing ending  

Trivia

• This song is a bit of an excercise in changing meters. One beat is subtracted from the time signature in each section, starting in 7/4 and eventually ending in 4/4.
• The lyrics “B… A…” (as in “Be a whatever it is”) are in fact sung in the keys of B and A.