Mourning Glory

"Mourning Glory"
Song by Ween
from the album Pure Guava
Released	1992
Recorded	c. 1991–1992
Length	5:17
Label	Elektra Records

"Mourning Glory" is a track by Ween from the 1992 album Pure Guava.

Song Details

Meaning

From what of the lyrics can be made out, it is a song about three pumpkins who go into the woods looking for something pretty to look at. They meet a little man with a big head who yells at them for a bit.

Recording and Composition

"Mourning Glory" is an experimental noise song with industrial influences and a spoken word vocal. Most of the instrumentation is hard to make out as a result of the nature of the song, however extremely blown out drums, bass, and guitar can be heard at varying levels through the first four minutes before fading out and giving way to screeching feedback from both the guitar amplifier and what seems to be a megaphone that the vocals are delivered through for the rest of the song.

Live Performances

Unsurprisingly, "Mourning Glory" has never been played live. However, apparently Gene Ween has been known to occasionally tease some of the lyrics from the song.

Lyrics

The official Pure Guava lyric sheet has only a single question mark in place of the lyrics for "Mourning Glory".

"Don't kill me here!"

I swear to god, look!
This is something new that you've never even heard before
You better take a good look at your mind, fucker
I don't know even what you want to come here for
Prepare to take a good look at your mind, fucker

The- the three little, the three little fuckers, the three little
The three little pumpkin patch
The three little pumpkins, went into the woods
And they said (they said), they said "today, we're gonna find something really pretty to look at"
And they went into the woods, and... they looked at all the, the trees
And they said this woods is really pretty, and I said yeah, because the trees
Y'know, 'cause nature is just a part of us as we are to the earth
And I said yeah

And the pumpkins, the pumpkins went further into-
And they came across this little man, with a big, big head
And the little man said:
"WHAT'S YOUR FUCKING NAME, FUCKER?
WHAT'S YOUR FUCKING NAME?"
And the little pumpkin says, "We're the pumpkins
Just join nature, and listen closely:
Ooey! Ooey! Ooey!
You ain't been in my world (ain't been-)
You never been in my world
You never will be in my world, fucker
You go away, and you'll never be in my world again"

The pumpkin boy said
"That's a rude... that's a rude thing to say
I wanna be in your world, I wanna be..."
"...with you, in your world"

"Yeah, you fuckers, you're out of your goddamn mind, you can't understand yourself
You think you can understand but you can't
Look, you've just entered my world, right?
You've just entered my world
If you think that you're quite right, why don't you go in and-
The poop ship ain't nothin' but shit on a pipe
You just go into the trees, the chocolate stew
Do you know what it can do?
[?] destroy the [?]...
...was fucked up"

The two pumpkins looked at the little man and they said
"Why, why would he be such a... why would he be such a jerk?
I know that he doesn't smoke drugs,
and he doesn't do cocaine,
and he doesn't shoot smack,
and he doesn't even drink beer!
Why would he be such a fucker to me?
Why would they be such fuckers?"
All, all they wanted to do with pumpkins
All they wanted to laugh at was the pumpkins

Then the little guys say:
"Don't give in, you fuck, take it back!
I think you go back, get out of the woods, get out of the woods!
You don't know what you're getting yourself into!
You don't know what you're getting yourself into!
It was only the beginning!
It was only the beginning!
It was only the beginning!"

Stop the tape!

Song Themes

Alcohol/Drugs, Profanity/Swearing, Screaming, Sung by Gene Ween, Tape Speed Manipulation