Lyrics:

There's memories I'd pay to remove
I'd cut them out myself
If that were possible
The kind you cry yourself blind about
The kind that choke you out
Choke you out

I had an uncle who was not by blood
He liked to scare all the little girls away
And if you're tender-hearted
You should stop the tape
Stop the tape

He pulled the heads off of garter snakes
I cried so helpless for those
Silent creatures
You know I cried so hard I pissed myself
Twisting away from
The horror

In the tar pit sea
Memories wear thick coats
The kind that pull you down
But in refusing to drown
You're choked into the shape of
A sailor
A sailor

Deputized by the cruel god of children
No running water in his soul
Just a hole
Echoed when he called your name
From down the hall

His name was a command
That cuts the ears off frightened dogs
Then wipes the knife
On his militia pants

Mercurochrome and Merthiolate stains, oh
Mercurochrome and Merthiolate stains, oh

And he's bragging all the while
If I say that black is blue, it's blue
Black is blue, if I say it is
Black is blue, black is blue, if I say it is

I never wondered what made him that way
Bullies are not born
They're pressed into form
And I hated those who gave him access
To our days
The ones who did nothing
I still can't love them

Mercurochrome and Merthiolate stains, oh
Mercurochrome and Merthiolate stains, oh

In the tar pit sea
Memories wear thick coats
The kind that pull you down
But in refusing to drown
You're choked into the shape of
A sailor
A sailor
A sailor

Mercurochrome and Merthiolate stains, oh
Mercurochrome and Merthiolate stains, oh
Mercurochrome and Merthiolate stains, oh
Mercurochrome and Merthiolate stains, oh
Mercurochrome and Merthiolate stains, oh
Mercurochrome and Merthiolate stains, oh
Mercurochrome and Merthiolate stains, oh
Mercurochrome, hoo, hoo, hoo