Throbbing Gristle

Hamburger Lady Lyrics



By far the worst is the hamburger lady

We must meal her for the qualified technicians

Qualified technicians

The worst

Alternating nights with her, unrelievedly

She’s lying there



Hamburger Lady

Hamburger Lady



She’s lying and

She’s burned from the waist up

She’s burned from the waist up

On her arms

Her ears burned

Top of her nose

Her eyelashes and everything are burned

She can’t hold anything

And the medical advances

There is no end in sight

For hamburger lady

When somebody tells you

That there’s a level of pain

Can’t reach the human mind

Can’t reach that level of pain

Put the lady on the propping chair, unrelievedly

Burned from the waist down

That’s what keeps her alive, through tubes

One of the nice nurses



Hamburger Lady

Hamburger Lady



He was okay when he changed the tubes

The tubes in her legs

Tubes in her arms

And he managed okay

Then he came out and he saw one of the burn nurses

Burn nurses sat at the desk

He was eating a can of Chile-Mac

And it flashed on the carpet

It flashed on the floor

The hamburger lady

Stretched as she came through

Ask her to stretch

Burn in her hair, unrelievedly

Couldn’t keep their meal down

The qualified technicians



Hamburger Lady

Hamburger Lady



Two minutes in every three minutes of everyday

24 hours she sleeps in pain

There’s no level to pain

Propped on the propping chair

Couldn’t keep their last meal down

The qualified technicians

Not safe to touch what keeps her alive?

Nobody came to visit hamburger lady

It flashed on the floor

Flashed