The noun vegetable means an edible plant or part of a plant, but usually excludes seeds and most sweet fruit. This typically means the leaf, stem, or root of a plant.
In a non-biological sense, the meaning of this word is largely based on culinary and cultural tradition. Therefore, the application of the word is somewhat arbitrary and subjective. For example, some people consider mushrooms to be vegetables even though they are not biologically plants, while others consider them a separate food category.
Some vegetables can be consumed raw, some may be eaten cooked, and some must be cooked in order to be edible. Vegetables are most often cooked in savory or salty dishes. However, a few vegetables are often used in desserts and other sweet dishes, such as rhubarb pie and carrot cake. A number of processed food items available on the market contain vegetable ingredients and can be referred to as "vegetable derived" products. These products may or may not maintain the nutritional integrity of the vegetable used to produce them. Examples of vegetable-derived products are ketchup, tomato sauce, and vegetable oils.
I never wanted anything but this
I tried hard, worked hard
I ran around in domestic bliss
I fought hard, died hard
Everytime you're running over me
Everytime you're running I can see
I'm not a vegetable
I will not control myself
I spit on the hand that feels me
I will not control myself
I never wanted any broken bones
Scarred face, no home
Your words surround me and I asphyxiate
And I burn all hate
Everytime you're running out on me
Everytime you're running I can see
I'm not a vegetable
I will not control myself
I spit on the hand that feels me
I will not control myself
The waters break, the waters run all over me
The waters break, the waters run
And this time you're gonna pay
I'm not a vegetable
I will not control myself
I spit on the hand that feels me
I was alone
Skipping along
Killing the song
Making it long gone
I was alone
Breaking it off
Making it soft
Trudging the road home
Sear it like a vegetable
Scarf it like a vegetable
Nosh it like a vegetable
Dip it like a vegetable
Fry it like a vegetable
Boil it like a vegetable
I was a chump
Making the jump
Chilling the bump
Driving the speedboat
I was a chump
Swallow a lump
Kid I smote
Picking an eighth note
Steam it like a vegetable
Green like a vegetable
Braise it like a vegetable
Cook it like a vegetable
Bake it like a vegetable
Burn it like a vegetable
Out of the black, skipping the track
Taking it back, I make a bid for the middle
Rough wrought like a cosmonaut
I got shunned for the refund
You're restless in your best dress
I'm depressed at your swank address
Live in the machinery
Salt sea of the hex you be
Hell-bound, surround the compound
Make the words swell in a villanelle
Ah, well, you got the dweller, dispeller
Tremble when you disassemble
Scrawl a rough map on the foolscap
Mr. Weinstein, drinking the strychnine
That's why I compel you to swim the wishing well
Steam it like a vegetable
Green like a vegetable
Burn it like a vegetable
Dirty like a vegetable
Make it like a vegetable
Fix it like a vegetable
Burn it like a vegetable
Dip it like a vegetable
Nosh it like a vegetable
If I didn't have a brain
Then I couldn't feel no pain
And the longing to be happy
If I didn't have a name
And everybody looked the same
Maybe I could see the difference
I would give it all away
If I didn't have to change
Everything that I became
Maybe I could find some loving
If I didn't have a dream
or the rest of everything
Well I'd still be missing something
I would give it all away
If I didn't have a life
And freedom didn't have a price
Maybe I would be a rich man
If I wasn't incomplete
And could control the rest of me
I'd fill this hole and let it bleed