Pearl Jam - Bugs Lyrics

Fun fact! While my parents were driving me and my sister home from a Christmas thing, my dad decided to play this song. And near the end I had a full on panic attack! :)

Lyrics

I got bugs
I got bugs in my room
Bugs in my bed
Bugs in my ears
Their eggs in my head
Bugs in my pockets
Bugs in my shoes
Bugs in the way 
I feel about you

Bugs on my window
Trying to get in
They don't go nowhere
Waiting, 
Waiting
Bugs on my ceiling
Crowded the floor
Standing, 
Sitting, 
Kneeling
A few block the door
And now the questions:

Do I kill them?
Become their friend?
Do I eat them?
Raw or well done?
Do I trick them?
I don't think they're that dumb
Do I join them?
Looks like... 
That's the one
I got bugs on my skin

Tickle my nausea
I let it happen again
They're always taking over
I see they surround me, 
I see
See them deciding my fate
Oh, 
That which was once
Was once up to me
Now 
It's too late
I got bugs in my room
One on one

That's when I had a chance
I'll just stop now
I'll become naked
And with them
I'll become one

I find it the way that the accordion wheezes at the end extremely hilarious for some reason

Do I trick then I don’t think there that dumb, I have the same issue with the roaches at my place

*Listens to They Might Be Giants ONCE*

I simply can’t explain how surreal and frightening listening to this song on LSD for the first time ever. #FlyingPyramids

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Watte poes?

Doctor Demento played this song on his show back in the first 90s.

Keanu Reeves needs this song rn

They mad this song just to prank their diehard fans. There were fan boys back then that would say this is the smartest song on the album.

i can imagine Tom Waits doing an epic version of this. great tune. great record.

This seems trap in the beggining lmao

I got bugs that’ll blow your mind tonight

I got a bug in my ear

you agree to a car ad fuck you

no.


just no.

Go home, Eddie. You're drunk.

Bugs serious business

Not as good as rats

Such an underrated song. Should be played on radio stations!

True Story : in the late 90's my friends and I went on a surfing trip down the Cornish coast in the UK. We found this bar that at first we thought was pretty friendly but then when a few of the locals took exception to our long hair and the songs we were putting on the jukebox (mostly Grunge and Indie) until one inebriated local told us to fuck off. At this point we'd had enough and were about to leave when my friend Rob had a brainwave. He'd noticed the jukebox had vitalogy on it, put enough money in to play this song on repeat 12 times and we left midway through the first playing of it. They did NOT look happy

shit, this song bugs me out.

Cocaine is a hell of a drug.

Greatest Pearl Jam song ever😎

*Do I eat them? Raw well done?*

Ubisoft's theme song

Basically any software developer's anthem

Should I eat them? Raw or well done?

Wtf is this song though. I was just in a grunge playlist and it came on, and I was so confused .

This reminds me of Tool's "Faaip de oaid", or STP's "Wet My Bed" because they are all under 3 minutes and scare the shit out of you If you listen to them late at night.

Bugs rule

Eddie was talking about his experiences with meth.

this is worse than taylor swift and thats saying a lot

Go shove a pole up your ass

*O h g o d*

WHAT A MASTERPIECE

So... this is just Pimbacore made by foreign people... heh!

The smooth sound of austrian diarrhea

Shit is about opiums

This was in Watchmojo's Worst songs of all-time list. With "My World" by Guns N Roses and "Revolution" by The Beatles. Too bad it wasn't number one.

This could be a Starship Troopers joke.

My friend's dad took me and my friend to a bar, he gave us a few bucks to spend on the electronic jukebox that had a surprising amount of songs, including Bugs and My Name Is Mud. So we just kept playing those two songs to annoy everyone and to spend all of his dad's money lmao. About three groups of people left during this time, but I can't confirm if they left because of the songs.

Haha! I would have loved that, my friends would have insisted on leaving. I used to piss one friend off every time I decided to play Rock Lobster on the jukebox.

Lyin ass joke thief

Come for the bugs, stay for the accordion.

Sorry..but this song is brilliant

This song has to be a joke

1994, the beginning of the end of the grunge era....

This song is terrible.

I dont think they're dumb

fuck Jeremy. Bugs is way better!!

I'm surprised this has more thumbs up than thumbs down.. If the video said Justin Bieber, it surely be that way

Best PJ song

Hey look at that it's a Lou Reed song with Tom Waits instrumentation!

I D O N ' T T H I N K T H E Y ' R E T H A T D U M B

Bugs is easily the worst Pearl Jam song to date.

Dude you misspelled best.

I love and hate this song in equal measure because it has to be THE MOST ANNOYING SONG EVER

awesome song

When I play Half-Life :v

TOM GREEN LOL

this is great.

Eddie was really high

Janis Ibarra it’s more of an annoyed tone, just listen to what he’s saying you will start to get it :s

Best Pearl Jam song ever!

I love the bugs song I play it to my wife all the time when there's a fly in the house and she's going nuts

My much older cousin said back in his hippy days, he had taken some acid and thought he had played Time on The Dark Side of Moon on repeat, when he had came down(I think thats the right term) he decided to take the disk out and it turned out it wasn't Dark Side at all, it was this album, with this song set on repeat. I have no idea how he made that mix-up, but it is a hilarious story.

I love Pearl Jam but a six year old could write this…

That's retarded to say

Bad ass accordion playing, Eddie!

I think Eddie read a creepy pasta the night he wrote this

sometimes i dance to this song and make people cry

Thanks for sharing...

mulehead126 lol ur walecum

this song makes me remind of "strange days" by "the doors"

Every now and then I come across a song in an otherwise decent album that needs to be deleted so I can never be forced to listen to it ever again. Even for the few seconds it takes to reach for the skip track button. This is one of those tracks.

Burn a copy of the CD but leave this song out. Problem solved, Skippy.

Try listening to Tool's "Ænima". Great album, but you have to hit skip after each song ends because in between all of them are mini songs like this.

Who remembers getting to this hidden track on the CD? I was so excited to find that the CD had a hidden track to begin with and LOVED this song! I just had to remember to get to the CD player before the "last" song finished!

What? Bugs is track 9 out of 14 on Vitalogy. There isn't a hidden track.

@Brad Blazek it was a hidden track on the original CD

+Amanda Torres Yeah, no. You're completely wrong. It never was a hidden track.

This sounds like like that song in kid Icarus when you piss off the reaper

I think they trying to be experimental

what the fuck was Eddie smoking when he wrote this

smoke no he was taken lsd

orbitable crack

He was smoking bugs.

Talk about the most questionable song I've ever heard. I'd rather get sting by bugs...

Listen to this then listen to Rats in my room by Leona Anderson - did that inspire this,or is inspire the wrong eword?

Eddie debe estar en una habitación construida por Ubisoft.

Lol Eddie Vedder

This could be the meth addict's anthem. "This is what he used to dig imaginary bugs out of his skin..."

maybe lsd or cocaine!

U couldn't have said truer words ive see. It all

@Sofia Alves not LSD

Every time I listen to this fuckin song I imagine some bugs sitting in a carriage pulled by little horses. I don't know why. Brilliant PJ.

Maybe because you're crazy! But don't worry, this is not bad.

Hahaha...disgusting...and so fucking brilliant, the guys are legends!!! Bugs, bugs, too many drugs...

Literary can relate to this song, like I loved it 30 years ago but omg its ironic the entire new meaning it has given me!

me and my friend ate at pizza hut they had this album in the jukebox. so what did me and my friend play? of course  we played bugs, over and over again. people literally left they were disgusted lol

+Juan Jose Bugs Count me as well

Sounds like a copy of john mulaney's joke but

easy way to get kicked out if you ask me

trey burke people living the place angry *accordion blasting in background*

Youre my hero! I love this song and would have eaten so much pizza with you guys

Classic.

This song always bugged me.

Fuck off! 😂😂😂

The character or the insect?

tickle my nausia

reminds me a little of Bum Bum Song by Tom Green

sounds hella good at 1.25

"Tickle my nausea" best lyric

Bugs that is some funny ass shit can't stop laughing nor can I get it out of my head LMFAOROF 💜💜💜💋💋🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃

Bought the album the other day... this is my favorite song by far. Makes me think of the lyrics of LCS Soundsystem. I wouldn't say this a joke song, just expressing some absurd and vulnerable feelings that we all encounter from time to time.

+Justin Monahan it is a joke song tho he said it himself multiple times

Are you guys in the comments so stupid you don't realize this is a joke song?
This song is ridiculous but that's what it's supposed to be.

Fuck off this is real U ever have bugs wanker. my friend used to kill them.with heroin

More like they got lazy, and just stopped caring

Waterblonk this guy is aids.

This song goes back to Eddie's childhood. He had an abusive stepfather that would lock him in his bedroom for long periods of time and Eddie felt helpless would let his imagination go to a world of insect rule to escape this man who as well made Eddie wear dresses and called him daughter because well he wanted a girl.

Bugs in my sphincter

this is how i feel when i see one cockroach but not eating part :)
 

Ugliest song in my life

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