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A dialogue between an adult and a child about a creature pulled from the sand, 'The Mollusk' unfolds as a kind of secular hymn to wonder and freedom. The mollusk speaks of the Trinity, gazes at the sun with a wandering eye, and becomes a vessel for something larger than itself. Ween build the track around a simple, almost nursery-rhyme logic, but the execution carries genuine reverence; there is no irony here, only earnestness. The bridge pivots toward something more mysterious. Three things rouse the mollusk from the sand: the waking of all creatures on land, and then a single glance back toward the sea. The creature lingers, caught between worlds, its wandering eye the only constant. It is a song about transformation, about being called back to origins, about the pull between two states of being. The title track of its album, 'The Mollusk' stands as Ween at their most oblique and their most sincere.
"The Mollusk" is a track by Ween, from the album The Mollusk, released 24th June 1997. Full lyrics are available below.
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