No, this isn’t an ode to that KFC-bucket-wearing, robot-dancing guitarist. He started his career several years after Curt Kirkwood wrote these words. Instead, it’s a jittery rumination on our most wonderful organ – the brain!
[Verse 1]
Got no head
It's a bucket with teeth
It likes to dream
It likes to sleep
It knows hot
It knows what's cool
It know what's what
It's no fool
[Chorus]
Fill up the bucket with
Whatever you got
Make sure it's something
That the bucket likes a lot
[Verse 2]
Fly on a window
Looking through
Its tiny bucket
Knows just what to do
It goes over here
It goes over there
It takes its tiny bucket
Almost everywhere
[Chorus]
[Verse 3]
I'm a bucket head
That's the truth
What I do
Sure shines through
And what goes in
Gets mixed around
And overflows
And makes this sound
Buckethead was written by Curt Kirkwood.
Buckethead was produced by Meat Puppets.
Meat Puppets released Buckethead on Thu Mar 21 1985.