From: gmd@socrates.umd.edu (Gina Mai Denn)
Subject: Re: Frontal Lobotomy -- recording, artist name, and lyric wanted
Keywords: frontal lobotomy, bottle in front of me
Organization: University of Maryland University College
Distribution: usa
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1992 00:15:31 GMT

m_reymond@zeus.dev.macsch.com (Mike Reymond) writes:

>This is my first posting in r.m.d. Please let me know if it should be 
>somewhere else.

>I'm looking for a recording of a very funny song with the lyric:

>"I'd rather have a bottle in front of me,
> than a frontal lobotomy..."

>If you know the name of the artist and/or the lyrics please post them
>or email me.

>Thanx.

>Mike Reymond
>MacNeal-Schwendler Corp., Los Angeles, CA, USA
>m_reymond@macsch.com
>(213) 259-4926

everyone has been saying it is existential blues but please! are y'all

real dementites or not? everyone knows that line was included in the 
t-bone tune, but it is the title of an entire song which goes like
this:

(funny child's voice) Daddy, what's a frontal lobotomy?
(music kicks in, daddy's voice) Well son, you know how the pressures
in life can cause people to do crazy things.  And if a person does too
many crazy things, then that person is crazy.  Sometimes you can do 
things to keep from going crazy, like drinkin', or havin' sex, but 
if the craziness goes too far, sometimes the only thing left to do is
to cut out that part of the brain that makes you crazy.  That kind
of brain surgery is called a frontal lobotomy.  Maybe this song
will help you understand what i mean.....

(singing) Jimmy and i are brothers, we went down different paths.

Jimmy always listened to our mother, and me i never liked to take a 
bath...

As we grew and tumbled through adulthood, the pressure caused
emotional drain...

And now i'm slowly dying in the bottle, and Jimmy has to live with
half a brain!

(chorus) Yes, me i have a bottle in front of me, and Jimmy has a 
frontal lobotomy, just different ways to kill the pain the same...
 
But i'd rather have a bottle in front of me, than have to have a 
frontal lobotomy, i might be drunk but at least i'm not insane.

Jimmy let his troubles drive him crazy, he never tried to drown them 
in a drink...

I know that drinkin' makes my thinkin' hazy, but at least i still have
brains enough to think...

Jimmy's got a brain that isn't stable, he doesn't have the sense to 
say his name...

I'm sorry that his doctor was unable to remove the proper portion of
his brain...

(chorus)

Funny how the world works...People can be real jerks...
Some prefer the tension over booze..

Either way it end the same...Hard to beat the livin' game...
Might as well enjoy it while you lose...

When i need a drink i start to shiver, and Jimmy always viewed it
with concern

But i'd rather have cirrhosis of the liver than an intellect thats
second to a fern...

I wonder if ol' Jimmys gonna hear it when i tell him that his logic
wasn't sound...

They'll dose him up on lots of evil sprits when they take him to the
psyciatric grounds..

(chorus)

I might be drunk but at least i'm not insaaaaaaaaaneee!

(the end)

someone else said this is by Dr. Rock.

have fun!

The Mad Maidenn..............................!
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