Vegetable

I never wanted anything but this
I tried hard, worked hard
I ran around in domestic bliss
I fought hard, died hard

everytime you're running over me
everytime you're running I can see

I'm not a vegetable
I will not control myself
I spit on the hand that feels me
I will not control myself

I never wanted any broken bones
scarred face, no home
your words surround me and I asphyxiate
and I burn all hate

everytime you're running out on me
everytime you're running I can see

I'm not a vegetable
I will not control myself
I spit on the hand that feels me
I will not control myself

the waters break, the waters run all over me
the waters break, the waters run
and this time you're gonna pay

I'm not a vegetable
I will not control myself
I spit on the hand that feels me
I will not control myself

Q: Which pops up in your song "Vegetable": "I am not a vegetable/ I will not control myself."

THOM: A lot of things I write come from really simple ideas. That was a funny song because I had a lot of phrases floating around [in my head]. But the principal image I had in my head was One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, and all the people who sit around the main area in the film but don't actually do anything except drool or go to the toilet without knowing it. But when you read the book, you find out that The Chief is the main character, and that's the brilliant thing about it - nobody speaks to him because he's the idiot.

--The Sunday Chronicle, San Francisco