Ween - Spinal Meningitis (Got Me Down) Lyrics

Someone shit right here on YouTube. Damn, WTF did these guys eat?

I can pretty much only listen to this song when I'm alone.

Yo, imagine being a kid and you actually have to suffer from something that inflames the shit that protects your brain and spine. If ledt untreated for too long it can cause brain swelling, comas, and death. A kid wouldn't be able to understand, and attempting to explain it in depth would just scare them. I think that's truly where the song gets it's disturbing undertones. Just hearing what's supposed to be a kid begging not to die due to a viral infection that is horrendously painful.

My dad showed me and my brother this album when we were 10/11. We’re in our twenties now and me and my brother listen to Ween together when we get off work and drink or smoke. Great stuff. Ween is great and my Dad has awesome music taste :) Thanks Shawn

This was a priceless time in music in the good ole 90,s
Permanently unique .......forever cool

Came here straight from 68chan - any volcels and other Smiths fans here? Asking for a friend.

63 people let spinal meningitis get them down

I had viral meningitis instead of bacterial (spinal) meningitis, but lemme tell ya when they told me I might need a spinal tap I bout shat me britches

I know everyone talks about how eerie and sad this song is (of which I can attest to saying lol) but does anyone know what instrument makes that "ding", chime sound? Or if it's being electronically generated, what instrument is being replicated? Bc instrumentally, this song is a fucking BANGER, I love it

what the fuck

The best song about spines since They Might Be Giants' "Spines."

The Residents?

This song is magnificent

My older sister played this song for me for the first time when I was young (after getting me stoned) back in the 90s, and I remember being completely creeped out, yet intrigued. Thus, I fell into a life-long respect and fascination for Ween.

this is heresy. this entire song

Boy is this song uncomfortable

Lol. I once played this for a friend and he told me he had spinal meningitus as a kid. Doh!

You should have said “did we just become best friends?”

Hail Boogish!!!!

I got shingles on my neck and back and this is the closest song I know to how I feel rn.

Why do I not find this creepy. Is there something wrong with me?

I think the song lowkey slaps

Why they want to see my spine mommy? 
Why they want to see my spine? 
It's gonna hurt again mommy 
Much worse than last time 
Am I gonna see God, mommy? 
Am I gonna die? 
It really hurts mommy! 
Am I gonna die?

Smile on mighty Jesus 
Spinal Meningitis got me down

I'm feelin' greasy mommy 
Please don't let me die 
Stinky Vaseline mommy! 
Please don't let me die 
Am I gonna see God, mommy? 
Am I gonna die? 
It really hurts mommy! 
Am I gonna die?

Smile on mighty Jesus 
Spinal Meningitis got me down 
Smile on mighty Jesus 
Spinal Meningitis got me down

Smile on mighty Boognish

I waa really excited to watch "it's Pat, the movie" because ween was in it. I'd rewatch it, but it's probably one of those things that isn't actually as good as you remember, like Alf.

Don't you ever disrespect Alf ever fucking again.

why is this such a fuckin bop

Sounds like a Residents song

kinda fuckin funny

Easily one of the creepiest songs (that isn't by Coil) I've ever heard...one of my favs from these weirdos

Smile, Almighty Jesus. Spinal meningitis got me down.

I think Wilson the volley ball from cast away wrote this. Lieutenant Dan met up with him after he jumped off the shrimp boat and ta da.! I'm telling. You! Its Kaiser soze!

The kid voice Sounds like Hartman from south park still don't know the meaning of this song I'm not sure I do either

Back in high school in Petes car doing strange drugs

You knew Pete?

Aw shit pete was fucking awesome let you do anything

This song makes me uncomfortable

this song is hilarious

Slightly different song with one headphone.

I dont like this at all!!!!!!

I saw them play this live and it was awesome. I got a signed vinyl of the mollusks. I SAW WEEN LIVE! THERE'S NOTHING LIKE IT.

i discovered ween back in middle school when i one day googled meningitis

Lol fitting

Can someone explain the songs meaning?

Lmmfao.... WOW.

:-0 //-~-\\

This song scares me no more.

Love this song

too good (still in 250 years)

One of the phenomena that have arisen in a subculture ... (1994)
timeless strangeness

Metrics “Satellite Mind” has a similar sound when they get going.

Aus Tronaut holy shit you’re right

this song used to make me sad when i was a kid.

Ted why is this a song?

i always thought it was " im feelin queasy mommy.."

The lord is taking forever with these guys.

This song is so brilliant. If I ever find someone not creeped out by my love for it, we will be good friends 😂 yeah the kid voice is sad and creepy. It's about a kid suffering and probably dying. About the cold indifference of reality and "Jesus" smiling as a child dies. Tho I know the smile almighty Jesus bit is a reference to an old nickname for spinal meningitis. I dunno, it just clicks w me, I think cuz I'm living through a loved ones suffering atm. It's hard to see. The guitar outro sounds like that pain.

Pennyroyal Ozma wrong. Jesus does have spinal meningitis.

when i bought "Chocolate and Cheese" and first heard "Spinal Meningitis," i thought that it was the most demented song i'd ever heard in my life. then i listened to "Mister Won't You Please Help My Pony?" a few minutes later ...

Back in 95 when I was sixteen experimenting with acid

My back hurts

Guys, don't let spinal meningitis get you down.

0:25 am i gonna see god mommy? am i gonna DAH?

The look on people's faces in the crowd who don't know this song, is priceless

I don't know why, but I can't stop laughing picturing it

People look at me like mental

I keep coming back to this as my favorite song of theirs, I was so fucking happy when I finally got to see it live last month

Pretty sure I had a fucking seizure listening to this

Epic!!!

fucking ween dude! brilliant!

I'm in hospital right this minute with meningitis, I chose to listen to this song specifically for that reason. For any of you that might think it's offensive to someone who has or has had meningitis I think that's ridiculous ! Noone should be offended by this song, if you know Ween and choose to listen to it then you should know what to expect ;-)

I hope you're feeling better now.

this fucked up weird song used to do my head in wen i was a kid

I really dont understand this band yet..I need to smoke some pot and get into some deep cuts. Its like modern day Vanilla Fudge so far.

nationalist818 White Pepper

They are not for everyone, but you might try Voodoo Lady. Probably their most accessible song. Depends what you like.

You don't weed yuh dumb. Ween grows on ya after a while but if you want to accelerate the process then yeah. Smoke weed.

Trying to pin Ween down to any one sound or description is practically futile. They're so eclectic, like every single musical genre thrown into a blender together, sprinkled with some surrealism/absurdist humor. And the amount of truly great songs they pumped out puts them on a par with The Beatles, talent-wise.

Yeah ween is so great. So many styles. Love the band

My favorite gospel number.

Praise the Ween and pass the Medication

Sounds pretty good sped up 1.5x

Austin Yirkovsky

It's weird his this song manages to be creepy and sad at the same time. Kinda shows how great at song writing ween is

And catchy too!

Space Cadet eh

Yeah, that guitar solo, though.

Race Baker characteristically flat

This is sick. Not funny. Gonna play it for my bro when he gets over meningitis. Has to be quarantined to his house for 2 weeks with a picc-line. Did anyone in Week have Meningitis?

Race Baker I think the point of the song is to show that life is FUCKED UP. And that god doesn't exist or if he does he's forsaken us or evil.

Basically, this song is meant to make u empathize w ppl, especially innocent children, who are suffering. Not to mock.

Race Baker I think its suppose to make us empahthize too.

Race Baker it isn't supposed to be funny.

This is not supposed to be funny. Ween has funny a series songs.

That's an interesting picture..?

607 a sexy picture indeed

Rating: 6.5/10
it's a little weird, but i kinda like it

You're retarded if this isn't a ten

Id say 8.5/10 compared to the best Ween songs

spinal meningitis got u down?

+Yoteslaya Woodson yes sir lmaoooo

That ending solo, though...

yoursoultasteslikebacon mmmm

Such a creepy and bizarre song yet such an awesome hook!

Apparently this song is much less entertaining to someone who has actually had spinal meningitis. My sister learned that when singing this song around one of her friends who did.

The thing about emotions that a lot of people don't realize is that they are physical in nature and derived from the balance of neurotransmitter chemicals in the brain. When someone is "offended", it's because something in their environment has stimulated an adrenaline release, which the brain does when it thinks the body is in danger. Adrenaline hypes up blood pressure and mid-brain activity, including the amygdala, aka the "fight or flight" center of the brain. It's a "false alarm," so to speak, and EEG studies show that this release occurs in situations such as heated political arguments. For the subconscious mind, there is no difference between this type of interaction and a fistfight. It cannot distinguish a difference between the body being attacked, and the beliefs being attacked.

From this information, I tend also tend to extrapolate that if a person expresses a belief and isn't offended by that belief being attacked, they don't sincerely hold that belief.

Bottom line though, it's an involuntary response, it's unpleasant, and I do not think anyone "likes to be a victim" or "needs to be offended." They're just used to their own minds.

ive gone grew this and I mostly feel surprised , its a pretty accurate song though .

That would be even funnier!

Odin Tillgren I had the bacterial form in 1970 at age four. Hospital for two weeks, permanent indention in thigh from injections, scar in ankle from tubes. I love this song. Perfectly describes young parents’ fear of losing baby. God save the Ween.

I find it very entertaining, 40 years ago it kept me in the hospital for 3 weeks and almost killed me. I don’t ever have to worry about that again.

Jesus fuck this song is creepy as sweet fucking jesus shit the bed

+Eddie Marais And yet it is amazing!

+Eddie Marais thats just the ween vibe dawgg

Spinal Meningitis is the most brilliant song since the 1812 Overture.

Eric MLJ I love WEEN! LOVE LOVE LOVE! But, are you nuts? Hell, The Pod had much better music than this. Pure Guava too.

Most brilliant song since poop ship destroyer

Eric MLJ 2112 overture* ftfy 👌😁

your my hero for saying this! and yes mucha agreed also I think your saying 2112 by rush?

HIV song is pretty close

I'm sad and scared for this distorted kid I and know I shouldn't be

maya my dad played this song when I was younger on the way to school and I had nightmares about Donald Duck raping me...

Snorlax 512 I never noticed that, gosh!

Spinal Meningitis got you down

maya samw

Snorlax 512 yas

Brilliant, close-to-the-the bone song. A dark track: a real hairs on the back of the neck-raising tingler. In Ozark community where a doctor was posted to help, spinal meningitis was heard referred to as "smile on mighty Jesus". Track exposes a certain psychological terror in the Ween-ers.