Mutilated Lips
{{Infobox song
| name = Mutilated Lips
| cover = MutilatedLips.jpg
| alt =
| type = promotional single
| artist = Ween
| album = The Mollusk
| B-side = Ocean Man
| released = June 24, 1997
| recorded = 1995
| studio =
| venue =
| genre = {{hlist|Neo-psychedelia|psychedelic folk|art rock|alternative rock}}
| length = 3:49
| label = Elektra{{cite web|url=http://sixappealmusic.com/?m=201107|title=Six Appeal Music » 2011 » July|publisher=sixappealmusic.com|accessdate=2015-01-03}}
| writer = {{hlist|Dean Ween|Gene Ween}}
| producer = Andrew Weiss
| prev_title = You Were the Fool
| prev_year = 1996
| next_title = Ocean Man
| next_year = 1997
}}
"Mutilated Lips" is a song by American rock band Ween. It was released as the lead single from their sixth studio album, The Mollusk (1997), on June 24, 1997.
Composition
The song lyrics refer to being under the influence of psychedelic drugs. It explains that such drugs distort an unattractive girl into appearing to have mutilated lips. The song's inclusion of acoustic guitar, bongos, synths, and keyboards were said to give the song a "psych-folk trippiness".{{cite book|title=Ween's Chocolate and Cheese|author=Shteamer, H.|date=2011|publisher=Bloomsbury Academic|isbn=9780826431172|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=z40NkIDvHTwC|page=27|accessdate=2015-01-03}} The lyrics also make reference to the Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie I. Given the extremity of this lyrical non-sequitur, this reference may be an evolved distortion of the Salassia mollusk.
In other media
The lyrics "Mutilated lips give a kiss on the wrist of the worm like tips of tentacles expanding" was directly referenced in
the novel The Procession of Mollusks (2009) by Eric E. Olson.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V7MsAQAAIAAJ|title=The Procession of Mollusks|last=Olson|first=Eric E.|date=2008-01-01|publisher=Astrophil Press|isbn=9780982225219|language=en}} The girl from "Mutilated Lips" was also a character in the novel.
Track listing
- "Mutilated Lips" – 3:49
- "Ocean Man" – 2:07