Matter Eater Lad is a comic book superhero from the DC universe who first appeared in Adventure Comics #303 in December 1962. Though he’d typically use his powers of matter ingestion for good in the comic books of the 1980s, Robert Pollard’s lyric here envisions a somewhat deranged Matter Eater Lad...
[Verse 1]
He constructed a factory
Just because he was hungry
Just to see how it tasted
Bicycle wheel in a brat's brain
[Chorus]
Yeah, he's mad
He's Matter Eater Lad
Yeah, he's mad
He's Matter Eater Lad
[Verse 2]
First he started on furniture
Then he moved on to parking lots
Now he's eating Ansonia
Now he's eating Andromeda
He's Matter Eater Lad
[Chorus]
Yeah, he's mad
He's Matter Eater Lad
Yeah, he's mad
He's Matter Eater Lad
[Outro]
Yeah, he's mad
He's Matter Eater Lad
Matter Eater Lad was written by Robert Pollard.
Matter Eater Lad was produced by Guided by Voices.