Five Stop Mother Superior Rain
Wayne's quote from Staring At Sound:
"We were just trying to connect these wicked things, and 'the Jesus egg' was such a perfect lyric. I don't know what it means, but it has great imagery. A song like 'Wild Horses' is this long epic, and we took that format and filled it with cosmic, existential shit. We wanted to sing about shit that we truly didn't understand, but then we would come up with these lines that would cut right to the heart of things: 'You're fucked if you do, and you're fucked if you don't.' I don't know what 'Five Stop Mother Superior Rain' means, but you have the hallucinations right next to the horrible realities of life, and I thought, 'Damn, I kinda like that.'"
The phrase "the Jesus Egg" that Wayne mentions is a reference to an a 1984 EP entitled Jesus Egg That Wept by English art rocker Danielle.
"We were just trying to connect these wicked things, and 'the Jesus egg' was such a perfect lyric. I don't know what it means, but it has great imagery. A song like 'Wild Horses' is this long epic, and we took that format and filled it with cosmic, existential shit. We wanted to sing about shit that we truly didn't understand, but then we would come up with these lines that would cut right to the heart of things: 'You're fucked if you do, and you're fucked if you don't.' I don't know what 'Five Stop Mother Superior Rain' means, but you have the hallucinations right next to the horrible realities of life, and I thought, 'Damn, I kinda like that.'"
I was born the day they shot JFK
The way you look at me sucks me down the sidewalk
Somebody please tell this machine I'm not a machine
My hands are in the air
And that's where they always are
You're fucked if you do, and you're fucked if you don't
Five stop mother superior rain
I was born the day they shot John Lennon's brain
And all my smiles are gettin' in the hate generation's way
Tell 'em I'm gonna go out
shoot somebody in the mouth first thing tomorrow
My hands are in the air
And that's where they always are
You're fucked if you do, and you're fucked if you don't
Five stop mother superior rain
I was born the day they shot a hole in the Jesus egg
Now the rain, it's all so random
What does free will have to do with it at all?
And you can't cry, but
It really don't matter, y'end up cryin' anyway
My hands are in the air
And that's where they always are
You're fucked if you do, and you're fucked if you don't
Five stop mother superior rain
My hands are in the air
And that's where they always are
You're fucked if you do, and you're fucked if you don't
Five stop mother superior rain
Five stop mother superior rain
The way you look at me sucks me down the sidewalk
Somebody please tell this machine I'm not a machine
And that's where they always are
You're fucked if you do, and you're fucked if you don't
Five stop mother superior rain
And all my smiles are gettin' in the hate generation's way
Tell 'em I'm gonna go out
shoot somebody in the mouth first thing tomorrow
And that's where they always are
You're fucked if you do, and you're fucked if you don't
Five stop mother superior rain
Now the rain, it's all so random
What does free will have to do with it at all?
And you can't cry, but
It really don't matter, y'end up cryin' anyway
And that's where they always are
You're fucked if you do, and you're fucked if you don't
Five stop mother superior rain
And that's where they always are
You're fucked if you do, and you're fucked if you don't
Five stop mother superior rain
Five stop mother superior rain
Discography Appearances
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Live
A softer song off In A Priest Driven Ambulance, "Five Stop Mother Superior Rain" has rarely been attempted onstage. The latest documented performance, at The Water Palace in Norman in 1995, took place as part of a complete performance of Priest.
| 01/28/1995 | Norman OK USA | The Water Palace | Download Available | |
| 12/08/1992 | Philadelphia PA USA | Trocadero | Download Available |