Mercury Rev - Frittering Lyrics






I've seen you eat away
Slow as a glacier makes its way down to the Rhine
I've seen you chisel away
Slow as a glacier makes its way down to the Rhine

And you wonder why I leave so soon
How I get so high sink to the bottom of your room

I've seen you fritter away
Slow as a glacier makes its way down to the Rhine
I've seen you whittle away
Slow as a glacier makes its way down to the spine

And you wonder why I leave so soon
How I get so high sink to the bottom of your room

I wonder why I stay
Slow as a glacier makes its way down to the Rhine
I've seen you eat away
Slow as a glacier makes its way down to the Rhine
I wonder what to do
Slow as a glacier takes to move on through the world

And you wonder why I leave so soon
How I get so high sink to the bottom of your room

And you wonder why I leave so soon
How I get so high sink to the bottom of your room

I've seen you chisel away
Hammer in place always in time
I've seen you chisel away
Slow as a glacier makes its way down to the Rhine

And you wonder why I leave so soon
How I get so high sink to the bottom of your room





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  1. i.... ....

    This song is life itself

  2. D.... B....

    This reminds me a bit of Devin Townsend's work with Ocean Machine.

  3. P.... O....

    A masterpiece..
    Dark and gloomy at first but get ready to take off to bliss heaven

  4. A.... V....

    Finally I can feel the eternity!! Great song!

  5. c.... l....

    If as a musician I ever get to support you I'd not be as I am now x

  6. c.... l....

    Just beautiful music

  7. T.... L....

    near u u u u u u u u u

  8. ].... m....

    Discovered this album because it was playing between the shows of - I think - Beck and Sonic Youth in Paris in 95..

  9. A.... K....

    It is physically impossible to listen to this loud enough

  10. T.... B....

    Grasshopper

  11. T.... f....

    24 years ago, one evening, I drank cannabis wine and took mushrooms with some amazing people in Last of the summer Wine country and heard this brand new. ( the album wasn't new at the time). Wow!!! , a long time ago though and lots of rain drops in the river since then 😪, but it still moves my heart and brings a smile to my soul...😊

  12. L.... L....

    🤣I was one obnoxious little bastard!

  13. E.... L....

    просто охуенно

  14. E.... C....

    17, trippin ay night on mushrooms with a friend under a motorway underpass, the graffiti was some kind of coded language - I understood it in that moment free from time in the everlasting present - couldn't bring its meaning back with me. One fucking day.

  15. t.... ....

    Honestly, the first time I heard this (when it came out), I'd done a tab, (which was my last time). I ended up curled up to this album on one of those saucer chairs, at a friend's house, and my life truly changed. I went into and back out of the womb. It's everything.

  16. J.... G....

    The album is a masterpiece. They've never managed to top it. From the screechy, insane distortion of 'Syringe Mouth' to the trippy astral journey of 'Sweet Odysee of a Cancer Cell to the Center of Yer Heart' to the doomy, gothic 'Blue & Black'. And if Side 1 wasn't enough, you have the sublime 'Frittering' on Side 2, followed by the incredible, psychedelic, drawn out 'Very Sleepy Rivers', with David Baker at his shamanistic, hypnotic best.
    The band became far less interesting after the departure of Baker. He gave them that insane, dark edge.

  17. t.... ....

    https://m.soundcloud.com/debbienancy

  18. A.... K....

    What headphones were invented for

  19. S.... ....

    Isn't this nice?

  20. A.... L....

    FuckingMasterpiece

  21. F.... L....

    Who is on vocals on this song?

    F.... L....

    Jonathan Donahue

  22. A.... F....

    beautiful

  23. T.... ....

    when the oxytocin dealer throws in a lil extra

    T.... ....

    Makes childbirth real easy

  24. J.... F....

    Probably the best song ever.

  25. M.... P....

    Classe A!!!

  26. T.... D....

    slow as a glacier makes its way down to the Rhine...

  27. s.... ....

    goes to my playlist "music to die to"

  28. ].... m....

    My highschool years..

  29. r.... s....

    Pink Floydish

  30. c.... p....

    I made the number round (400th like), but it should be much more!

  31. s.... k....

    And still such a great band loved 'The Light In You' album from last year. One of my fav tracks this

  32. D.... M....

    25 years after hearing this song for the first time, it still sounds amazing. Wow, time flies by!

    D.... M....

    Like yesterday isn't it? Everything seems like yesterday

  33. j.... ....

    I don't listen to this song so much as inhale it.

  34. T.... D....

    Sometimes this is the only fucking song that matters...

    T.... D....

    like now

    T.... D....

    Thank you, Tyler, for finding the perfect description otherwise lost to me.

    T.... D....

    @Jupiter Soup im joining you in thanking tyler

    T.... D....

    ​@Scout World I didn't think it was possible to love this track any more than I did but Tylers words somehow multiplied my adoration for it. That's never happened before.

    T.... D....

    привет от русских кайфожоров

  35. C.... H....

    One of the most accurate album covers

    C.... H....

    One of the most accurate Youtube comments

    C.... H....

    You guys are spot on! 😉😍

  36. S.... J....

    who is the woman on the cover

    S.... J....

    patricia highsmith

    S.... J....

    why her....?....

    S.... J....

    Sparky Jo Ripley

    S.... J....

    I am back again.....every winter I listen to this..peace

  37. c.... ....

    psych pop at its greatest ))

  38. G.... u....

    Are You Ready? I don't want to wonder.. but. really, I do. This is art. I don't know what that is.

  39. A.... C....

    che gruppo!!!!

  40. i.... ....

    At their very best, Mercury Rev is like a stoned My Bloody Valentine that has been taking a cocktail of LSD, mescaline, marijuana and salvia at once.

  41. M.... S....

    amazing

  42. r.... s....

    bliss...this brings back the most powerful memories of a tumultuous time in my young life..when all possibilities seemed open...

    r.... s....

    +ruby scooby they opened up again...the possibilities, i mean. this time they really mean it.

    r.... s....

    I could have made that comment. As a teenager in a broken home amid a world of drugs, crime and poverty discovering Mercury Rev was like discovering a gate to a new dimension, a beautiful world somewhere out there.

  43. C.... Y....

    oh surprise no ban no block no lock anymore? thats nice thx youtube to let me bleed with 'frittering' like 20 years ago

  44. n.... g....

    does anyone know all the lyrics please, never could quite figure them out

    n.... g....

    +neil godfrey Highy mighny a cham a peng, Chinghiyminghypang gnany nyangacham

    n.... g....

    I've seen you eat away
    Slow as a glacier makes its way down to the Rhine
    I've seen you chisel away
    Slow as a glacier makes its way down to the Rhine
    And you wonder why I leave so soon
    How I get so high sink to the bottom of your room
    I've seen you fritter away
    Slow as a glacier makes its way down to the Rhine
    I've seen you whittle away
    Slow as a glacier makes its way down to the spine
    And you wonder why I leave so soon
    How I get so high sink to the bottom of your room
    I wonder why I stay
    Slow as a glacier makes its way down to the Rhine
    I've seen you eat away
    Slow as a glacier makes its way down to the Rhine
    I wonder what to do
    Slow as a glacier takes to move on through the world
    And you wonder why I leave so soon
    How I get so high sink to the bottom of your room
    And you wonder why I leave so soon
    How I get so high sink to the bottom of your room
    I've seen you chisel away
    Hammer in place always in time
    I've seen you chisel away
    Slow as a glacier makes its way down to the Rhine
    And you wonder why I leave so soon
    How I get so high sink to the bottom of your room

  45. s.... m....

    This is something else

  46. D.... ....

    Absolutely amazing....

  47. G.... B....

    awesome

  48. l.... ....

    I find your comment strangely intruiging

  49. S.... ....

    Of course its subjective you douche. Would you prefer a boring intellectually snobby rant on why I think this is their best album? Nup, sounds like your job.

  50. S.... D....

    Elmhurst College dorms Schick Hall always playing 1992.....

  51. v.... ....

    I used to listen to this album all the time when I first started smoking weed. Love it!

  52. 4.... (....

    i fucking love you.. not you i'm talking to the song guys

  53. E.... A....

    Wonderful. This music takes me away..

  54. m.... ....

    greatest song ever - but also the most boring video ever!! I shall have to make one.I will.

  55. S.... ....

    This is their best album by far.

  56. M.... T....

    And the most amazing part of this record is and I quote " some guys that were trying to figure out how to play music and make it different" " we didn't know anything"

    M.... T....

    Did they still have to rub it on your faces that they weren't even trying? It makes me feel insignificant as a human being.

  57. M.... T....

    "Slow as a glacier takes to move on through the world" This is a measure of time I cannot fathom and a beautiful lyric.

  58. M.... ....

    This makes me 'so high I sink to the bottom of the moon'

  59. s.... ....

    I saw a review of this album in NME and immediately went out and bought it on yellow vinyl and was blow away by the wall of sound . its a truly epic album

  60. T.... D....

    The greatest song ever written I think:) makes me feel young again...

  61. n.... ....

    A room rumbling tune.

  62. p.... ....

    My favorite song from YERSELF IS STEAM. A masterpiece.

  63. s.... ....

    Epic album, its a wave of sound

  64. c.... ....

    beautiful song
    le calme avant la tempête

  65. c.... ....

    beautiful song

  66. O.... M....

    beautiful

  67. p.... ....

    Simply fucking awesome. Heaven.

  68. t.... ....

    thx so much for posting this!<3