Album: Antipop (1999)

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• Sometimes bored and sometimes lonely
  Pimple faced and rather homely
  He wasn't much for socializin'
  The TV kept a mesmerizin'
  
  In one ear and out the other
  Picked up a trick from his older brother
  Got him a can of sniffin' sauce
  Pinned his mind up on a cross
  
  Lacquer head knows but one desire
  Lacquer head sets his skull on fire
  Lacquer head knows no in betweens
  Huffin' on bags of gasoline
  
  Sniffin' paint since the seventh grade
  She was high on gin and Gatorade
  On turpentine she lost her luck
  Fell in front of a speeding pick-up truck
  
  He was a boy of soft demeanor
  And he loved his carburetor cleaner
  The vapor made a sweet aroma
  He sniffed himself into a coma
  
  Lacquer head feeds his one desire
  Lacquer head sets his brain on fire
  Lacquer head knows no in betweens
  Huffin' on bags of gasoline
  
  Keep on sniffin' till yer brain goes pop Writer/s: BRYAN KEI MANTIA, LES CLAYPOOL, REID L. III LALONDE
  Publisher: Downtown Music Publishing
  Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 5

• Tobias from AzLes is on record saying it is an anti-drug song, and is Les taking a jab at people that huff. You can find the interview on youtube (there is a short - https://youtube.com/shorts/DkVBIDd09xg) in which he states this.
• Joann from Hackensack New JerseyDangerous images and suggestions. I don't blame mtv.
• Rusty from Argyle, Ny"satan" is his brother
• Chris from Peabody, Maread the lyrics and you might get a very vague description of a boy who loved his carborator cleaner, perhaps a message about a boy sniffing himself into a coma. the video was banned because of the lyrics in conjunction with a boy getting high from satan putting a helmet on him that had gasoline running through it. had we seen the boy's body parts fly all over the place, thats why mtv would have banned it.
• Luke from Martin, TnThe video didn't depict a boy sniffing gasoline and glue. It was banned because Satan rode the boy into a brick wall, causing him to explode.

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