Beck - The New Pollution

She's got cigarette on each arm
She's got the lily-white cavity crazes
She's got a carburetor tied to the moon
Pink eyes looking to the food of the ages

She's alone in the new pollution
She's alone in the new pollution

She's got a hand on a wheel of pain
She can talk to the mangling strangers
She can sleep in a fiery bog
Throwing troubles to the dying embers

She's alone in the new pollution
She's alone in the new pollution
She's alone in the new pollution
She's alone in the new pollution

She's got a paradise camouflage
Like a whip-crack sending me shivers
She's the boat in a strip mine ocean
Riding low on the drunken rivers

She's alone in the new pollution
She's alone in the new pollution

Beck - Broken Drum

I see you there
Your long black hair
Your eyes just stare
Your mind is turning

You know I'll laugh
I won't take it back
I've seen your act
I know what you're thinking

And one by one
We'll shoot our guns
We'll have fun
Don't ever doubt it

And when I say
Fare thee well
My only friend
Oh how the days go
Oh how the days go

Your setting sun
Your broken drum
Your little drugs
I'll never forget you
I'll never forget you
I'll never forget you

Beck - Nitemare Hippy Girl

She took me off my guard with disappointment

I got sucked inside of her apartment

She's got dried-up flowers, flaky skin

A beaded necklace and a bottle of gin

She's a nightmare Hippy girl

With her skinny fingers fondling' my world

She's a whimsical, tragically beauty

Self-conscious and a little bit moody

It's a new age letdown in my face

She's so spaced out and there ain't no space

She's got marijuana on the bathroom tile

I'm caught in a vortex

She's changing' my style

She's a nightmare Hippy girl

With her skinny fingers fondling' my world

She's a whimsical, tragically beauty

Uptight and a little bit snooty

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh

She's a magical, sparkling' tease

She's a rainbow choking' the breeze

Yo, she's busting' out onto the scene

With nightmare bogus poetry

She's a melted avocado on the shelf

She's the science of herself

She's spazzing out on a cosmic level

And she's meditating with the devil

She's cooking salad for breakfast

She's got tofu the size of Texas

She's a witness to her own glory

She's a never-ending story

She's a frolicking depression

She's a self-inflicted obsession

She's got a thousand lonely husbands

She's playing' footsie in another dimension

She's a goddess milking her time

For all that it's worth

Beck - Asshole

Your brains went black

when she took back her love

and she put it out into the sun,

The birds did fly

when the heavens all went dry,

and the cigarettes were smoking by themselves.

She'll do anything

She'll do anything

She'll do anything

to make you feel like an asshole.

Call her name,

she looks the same as you,

question marks stretched across her skin,

She dangles carrots,

makes you feel embarrassed

to be the fool you know you are.

She'll do anything

She'll do anything

She'll do anything

to make you feel like an asshole.

Beck - Dead Melodies

Where will you go when this day is over?

A gambler's purse lays on the road straight to your door

The snakes have gone crazy tonight

Winding their way out of sight

A laugh, a joke, a sentiment wasted

Seasons of strangers that come and go

Doldrums are pounding, cheapskates are clowning this town

Who could disown themselves now?

Engineer, slow down this old train

Cinders and chaff laugh at the moon

Night birds will cackle, rotting like apples on trees

Sending their dead melodies to me

Beck - Heart Is A Drum

Free as a driving wheel

Circling around your iron will

See only what you feel

Keeps you turning when you're standing still

You tried to run from trouble when it comes

You follow the drum keeping time with everyone

High as the light of day

You're falling down across your lost highway

Pain - does it hurt this way?

To come so far to find they've closed the gates?

You've lost your tongue when you fall from the pendulum

Your heart is a drum keeping time with everyone

Everyone, if they drown from the undertow

Need to find someone to show me how to play it slow

And just let it go

Your eyes get stung by the rays of the sinking sun

You follow the drum keeping time with everyone

Going beat beat beat, it's beating me down

Beat beat beat beat, it's beating me down

Day after day, it's turning me round

'Til all my days are drowning out

Beck - Think I'm In Love

I really think I better get a hold of myself

Don't wanna let the night get ahead of myself

Whisperin' her love through a smoke ring smile

She doesn't know what happens when she's around

I think I'm in love

But it makes me kinda nervous to say so

I think I'm in love

But it makes me kinda nervous to say so

Doodododododooodoo

Probably lay my head on a wooden floor

Tell her I was tired from working the store

Counting all the cash from an old shoebox

Saving up to buy her something she wants

I think I'm in love

But it makes me kinda nervous to say so

I think I'm in love

But it makes me kinda nervous to say so

What if it's wrong?

What if it's wrong

To pray in vain?

What does it mean

To fake your death?

To wake up tainted?

Take a little picture in a photobooth

Keep it in a locket and I think of you

Both of our pictures, face to face

Take off your necklace and throw it away

I think I'm in love

But it makes me kinda nervous to say so

I think I'm in love

But it makes me kinda nervous to say so

Really think I better get a hold of myself

Don't wanna let the night get ahead of myself

Whisperin' her love through a smoke ring smile

She doesn't know what happens when she's around

I think I'm in love

Think I'm in love

Think I'm in love

Think I'm in love

Think I'm in love

Think I'm in love

Think I'm in love

Think I'm in love

Beck - Peaches & Cream

Don't tell your right hand baby

What your left hand do

You know those road check girls

Will make your brown breath blue

Peaches and Cream

You make a garbage man scream

Such a dangerous dream

Peaches and Cream.

You look good in that sweater

And that aluminum crutch

I'm gonna let you down easy

I've got a delicate touch

Peaches and Cream

You make a garbage man scream

Come on girl it's a dream

You're a torn out page

From a best selling book

Your home girl's on the line

But your daddy's off the hook

Where do we go now?

Give those pious soldiers

Another lollipop

Cause we're on the good ship

Menage et tois

Peaches and Cream

You make a garbage man scream

Such a delicate thing

Keep your lamplight trimmed and burning

Beck - I'm So Free

I'm on a tangent

Textbook ephemeral

Facts are confusing me

I'm so free now

I'm on a one-man waiting list

I'm bored again

I buried all my memories

I'm so free now

I see the silhouette of everything

I thought I ever knew

Turning into voodoo

I'm so free now

A panic cycle, sentimental

Feel it out until you know

It wasn't meant for you

I'm so free now

I'm so free now

I'm so free now

And the way that I walk

Is up to me now

And if I breathe now

I could scream now

You can hear me

From Topeka to Belize now

I'm gonna freeze out

These enemies out

They never see what I got

No need to bend my knees down

Heaven forbid

Time is running out

Nothing new under the sun

Better get down

I'm so free

Free from me

Free from you

Who am I supposed to be

In the middle of the day

With no good connection?

I'm so free now

They try to keep me down

With affliction

Alpha male fell asleep in the engine

I'm so free now

A horizontal aspiration

In the basement

With a digital lust for life

I'm so free now

I coin the phrase of the realm

Let it roll into the street

Like a token of sweet nothing

I'm so free now

I'm so free now

I'm so free now

And the way that I walk

Is up to me now

And if I breathe now

I could scream now

You can hear me

From Topeka to Belize now

I'm gonna freeze out

These enemies out

They never see what I got

No need to bend my knees down

Heaven forbid

Time is running out

Nothing new under the sun

Better get down

I'm so free

I'm so free now

Yeah, yeah, yeah

Hey nobody's going to keep me down

Nobody's going to keep me down

Nobody's going to keep me down

Gonna do, gonna do, gonna do what we want

I don't want to go

I don't want to go

I don't want to go down

Gonna do, gonna do, gonna do what we want

I'm so free

I'm so free now

Yeah, yeah, yeah

Beck - Uneventful Days

Uneventful days, uneventful nights

Living in that dark, waiting for the light

Caught up in these never-mending battle lines

Everything has changed, nothing here feels right

I know, I know, I know, I know

I know, I know it's gone

I know

I know, I know it's gone (Ooh, yeah)

Never-ending days, never-ending nights

Everything I say, I know I can't get right

It means definitely more to me than life

You might know my name, you don't know my mind

I don't even know what's wrong (The days without you)

Ever since you've been gone

Only ten minutes to go (Leave me cold and alone)

I don't even know you now

I don't know where you're from (From my world without you, no)

I don't know where you belong

I don't wanna hurt you (No, no, no)

I don't wanna let you go (Gonna leave me alone)

Uneventful days, uneventful nights

Living in that dark, waiting for the light

Nothing you could say could make it come to light

I don't have a way to make you change your mind

I know, I know, I know, I know

I know, I know it's gone

I know

I know, I know it's gone (Yeah)

Never-ending days, never-ending nights

Time is moving slow, I don't even mind

It means definitely more to me than life

Got nowhere to go, got no will to fight

Haven't said a word now

Money getting thin now, I'm eating now

Have another round of drink now

Nothing but a low down, let down

You better not get down, left out

What am I really damn thinkin' 'bout?

Been in and out of love all night

Never-ending days, never-ending nights

Everything I do, you know I don't do right

I've been waiting around all night

Yeah-yeah-yeah

Yeah-yeah

Yeah-yeah, yeah-yeah-yeah

Yeah-yeah, yeah-yeah

Yeah-yeah, yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah

Beck - Up All Night

When you get the rhythm and words all make you cold
When they break it down and this world is all you know
Hands up, you're waving it 'round
Now get yourself together
When you count the dominos fall, it's time to go

Now I'm feeling so far away
I see the colors and all the kids going home
Night is crawling into the day
I hear my voice ringing
The summertime's singing

Just wanna stay up all night with you
Just wanna stay up all night with you
There's nothing that I wouldn't rather do
Just wanna stay up all night with you

I'll keep it moving
Don't wait for nothing now
Gotta keep it moving
Don't wait for nothing now
I'll keep it moving
Don't wait, don't wait for nothing now
Gotta keep it moving
Don't wait for nothing now, nothing now

1, 2, what you doing?
I've been jumping through some hoops
Wanna get my body loose
Wanna tell you, tell you what to do
I've been running out of breath like an animal struggling
Looking for a diamond
I'm trying, I'm fighting
Back into the rhythm now

I just wanna stay up all night
Wanna stay up all night with you
With you, you

Just wanna stay up all night with you (wanna stay up all night)
Just wanna stay up all night with you
There's nothing that I wouldn't rather do (than stay up all night)
Just wanna stay up all night with you

Hands up in the air
If you don't really care
Living don't get you there
If you got the climb to take it up there
Hands up in the air
Living out on a prayer
Living don't get you there
Nothing that I want but rather be there

Beck - Saw Lightning

Ooh, ooh
Ooh, ooh

There was a day I saw lightning
There was a day I saw lightning (I saw lightning)
Hey, hey, hey, saw lightning
Ho-ho-ho, I saw lightning
He-he-he, I saw lightning
Ha-ha-ha

Saw wind and rain
Some mountains fall
Saw temples burn
And prison walls
Saw floods coming
Saw children run
Got no more shelter, no more sun

Then it came to me in a flash of light
By the sycamore tree in the dead of night
The bottom bell and the longest day
And the hardest wind and in the falling rain
Saw lightning, saw lightning, saw lightning
Held my head up and it struck me down
Down to the ground
It struck me down, struck me down
Struck me down to the ground

There was a day, saw lightning
There was a day, saw lightning
Hey, hey, hey, saw lightning
Ho-ho-ho, saw lightning
He-he-he, saw lightning
Ha-ha-ha

When it ain't up, wonder where it go
Hold the sea as somewhere to row
Over did then dead heroes
Make it easy and sunny and go
We hold the sea and know the unknown
Old Man Dan, 'cuz some of them are low
Wondering 'bout where do we go
Until, then, we boat

Then it came to me in a flash of light
By the sycamore tree in the dead of night
The bottom bell and the longest day
The hardest wind and the fallen rain
Saw lightning, saw lightning, saw lightning
I held my head up
And it struck me down (Ooh!)
Down to the ground (Ooh!)
It struck me down, struck me down
Struck me down on the ground (Ooh!)

Hey, hey, hey, saw lightning
Ho-ho-ho, saw lightning
He-he-he, saw lightning
Ha-ha-ha, saw lightning
Saw lightning, saw lightning, saw lightning

Lord, won't you take me and lead me to the light? (Ooh!)
Lord, won't you take me and lead me to the light? (Ooh!)
The Lord's gonna take me and leave me in the light (Ooh!)
The Lord's gonna take me and leave me in the light (Ooh!)

Then it came to me in a flash of light (Ooh!)
By the sycamore tree in the dead of night (Ooh!)
The bottom bell and the longest day (Ooh!)
The hardest wind and the fallen rain (Ooh!)
I saw lightning, saw lightning, saw lightning (Ooh!) (Ooh!) (Ooh!)
I held my head up (Ooh!)
And it struck me down (Ooh!)
Down to the ground (Ooh!)
It struck me down, struck me down
Struck me down on the ground (Ooh!)

I saw lightning
I saw lightning
I saw lightning
I saw lightning

Beck - Die Waiting

When the sky fades out and the roads all end
I'm gonna wait on you, gonna wait on you
When the money runs out and the walls close in
I'm gonna wait on you, gonna wait on you

I don't care what I have to do
Know that I'm gonna wait on you
I don't care what I have to do
Know that I'm gonna wait on you

Coming off the feeling
Got my body reeling
Really coming off the ceiling
All my memories got me kneeling
Almost got a real thing
Almost got a new leaf
Darker than you ever knew it
Something that you're going through it

I don't care what I have to do
Know that I'm gonna wait on you
I don't care what I have to do
Know that I'm gonna wait on you

Yea oh yea oh

When the sky fades out and the roads all end
I'm gonna wait on you, gonna wait on you
When the money runs out and the walls close in
I'm gonna wait on you

I can't understand why I've waited for so long
Just to walk out of the door, see the world moving on
And I lay down in the sun with the moonlight in my eyes
If it takes a lifetime, then you know I got time

I don't care what I have to do
Know that I'm gonna wait on you
I don't care what I have to do
Know that I'm gonna wait on you
I don't care what I have to do
Know that I'm gonna wait on you
I don't care what I have to do
Know that I'm gonna wait on you

Beck - Where It's At

There's a destination a little up the road
From the habitations and the towns we know
A place we saw the lights turn low
The jig-saw jazz and the get-fresh flow

Pulling out jives and jamboree handouts
Two turntables and a microphone
Bottles and cans just clap your hands
Just clap your hands

Where it's at!
I got two turntables and a microphone
Where it's at!
I got two turntables and a microphone
Where it's at!
I got two turntables and a microphone
Where it's at!

I got two turntables and a microphone

(take me home with my elevator bones!)
(that was a good drum break)

Pick yourself up off the side of the road
With your elevator bones
And your whip-flash tones
Members only hyponotizers
Move through the room like ambulance drivers
Shine your shoes with your microphone blues
Hirsute with your parachute fruits
Passing the dutchie from coast to coast
Let my man Ken Wilson (rock the most)

Where it's at!
I got two turntables and a microphone
Where it's at!
I got two turntables and a microphone

("What about those who swing both ways? AC-DC's?")

Two turntables and a microphone
Two turntables and a microphone
Two turntables and a microphone
Two turntables and a microphone
Two turntables and a microphone
Two turntables and a microphone

Where it's at!
I got two turntables and a microphone
Where it's at!
I got two turntables and a microphone

Oh, dear me.
Make-out City's a two-horse town

("That's beautiful, Dad.")

(Got my microphone....)
There's a destination a little up the road
From the habitations and the towns we know
A place we saw the lights turn low
The jig-saw jazz and the get-fresh flow

Pulling out jives and jamboree handouts
Two turntables and a microphone
Bottles and cans and just clap your hands
And just clap your hands

Where it's at!
I got two turntables and a microphone
Where it's at!
I got two turntables and a microphone

I got plastic on my mind
(make it out, baby)
yeah, yeah, yeah
let's make it out, baby
yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Telephone plastic baby
Ah, so good
oh, yeah
let's play good
ow wow wow wow wow

Beck - Seventh Heaven

I want to see you
With the pharaoh's curse
The apple flower doggerel
The batteries burst
And I'm out in the city
In the typical noise
With the suntan ellipse
And the filigree of energy
What you want and what you need
Now I'm down on my knees
With a pocket full of widows
You can do it down here
What you never did there
When you feel so untethered
From the broken veneer

Don't tell nobody I'm here
Don't tell nobody I'm here
Now I'm far from the world
In your seventh heaven
Now I'm far from the world
In your seventh heaven

Now you got to let me know
Or you got to let me go

I'm gonna take it with me
I'm gonna take it down

A second language
A burden of hope
I've seen it all come clean
Like a guillotine rose
A photograph
A low life laugh
We'll shoot for the empire
Land in the dust pile
I want to wake up
In the shadow of a fever pitch
With the gold glass heart
Sending messages
I hear the voice over the phone
She pauses
Says 'I'll never, never, never go'

Oh can I stay here with you?
Oh can I stay here with you?
Now I'm dead to the world
In your seventh heaven
Now I'm dead to the world
In your seventh heaven

Now you gotta let me know
Or you got to let me go
Yea you got to let me know
Or you got to let me go
I'm gonna take it with me

Someday there might be something better
You can change your mind but you can't forget her
Someday there might be something better
You can change your mind but you can't forget her

So let it rise to the highest high
In the satellite sky
So let it rise to the highest high
In the satellite sky
Up to the seventh heaven
To your seventh heaven
So let it rise, rise, rise
To the highest height
In the satellite sky

Now I'm starting to fall
From your seventh heaven

Now you gotta let me know
Or you got to let me go

Love a love a love a love

Beck - No Distraction

It's not the words I want to tell you
It's not the tension that I feel
It's not the face that I'm showing you today
That betrays the way, the way I want to feel

What I need
What I need
What I need right now is right here
Right in front of me

What I need
What I need
What I need right now is right here
Right in front of me

A million times, a million thoughts
I really don't know what I want
But then I see you, now I'm almost lost
And everything that I know went wrong
And if it means that it's done and I'm a fool
But I don't want to forget what we've been through
Just to save us both from what we knew
Losing our way, sometimes, it's cruel

No distraction
No distraction
Can I, can I be with you?
No distraction
No distraction
Can I, can I be with you?

Pull you to the left
Pull you the right
Pull you in all directions
Pull you to the left
Pull you the right
Pull you in all directions

It's not the objects that I hold in my possession
It's not the worldly things that shine
Sometimes the worst will come and bring us back together
Well, hold me up and get me through the night

What I need
What I need
What I need right now
Is all right, right in front of me?

What I need
What I need
What I need right now
Is you - you, only you and me

A million times, a million thoughts
And I really don't know what I want
But then I see you, then I'm almost lost
In everything that I know went wrong
And if it means that it's done and I'm a fool
When I want to forget what we've been through
Just to save us both from what we knew
Losing our way, sometimes it's cruel

No distraction
No distraction
Can I, can I be with you?
No distraction
No distraction
Can I, can I be with you?

Pull you to the left
Pull you the right
Pull you in all directions
Pull you to the left
Pull you the right
Pull you in all directions

I'm losing time
I'm losing time
There's so many ways
To live or love or die
I'm losing time
I'm losing time
I've wanted to know
Are you still on the line?
Wasting time trying to prove things
Instead of proving my love
I'm losing, I'm losing my mind

A million times, a million thoughts
And now I really know what I want
But then I see you, I'm almost lost
In everything that I know went wrong
If it means that it's done and I'm a fool
Don't want to forget what we've been through
Just to save us both from what we knew
Losing our way, sometimes it's cruel

No distraction
No distraction
Can I, can I be with you?
No distraction
No distraction
Can I, can I be with you?

Pull you to the left
Pull you the right
Push you in all directions
Pull you to the left
Pull you the right
Push you in all directions

Beck - Black Tambourine

Black hearts in effigy
We sing a song that was hated
All dressed in rag and bones
Sharks smell the blood that I'm bleeding
I know there's something wrong
Might take a fire to kill it
Might take a hurricane
Don't know what life that I'm livin

Black tambourine

My baby run to me
She lives in broken down buildings
Can't pay the rent again
These spider webs are my home now
And when the sun is down
We'll shake and rattle our bodies
To keep it warm at night
My tambourine is still shaking

Black tambourine

Beck - Beautiful Way

Searchlights on the skyline
Just looking for a friend
Who's gonna love my baby
When she's gone around the bend
Egyptian bells are ringing
When it's her birthday
Sweet nothing', I'm talking about you
There's a hurricane blowing your way

Ooh such a beautiful way
To break your heart
Ooh such a beautiful way
To break your heart
There's someone calling your name
It's driving you insane

You were wearing that stained raincoat
And your umbrella was a tangled mess
You were washed up on the glittering shoals
Looking for another crime to confess
You bribed yourself
Out of a place in the sun
But you had some change to spare
So you said you wanna spend it on me
And shook the blues out of your hair

Ooh such a beautiful way
To break your heart
Ooh such a beautiful way
To break your heart
There's someone calling your name
You're gonna miss that train

Beck - Fuckin With My Head (Mountain Dew Rock)

I ain't got no inclination
Give away my sweet sensation
Sleeping' in an old tool shed
Scumbag crying' on his pillow

Ooh...
When you wanna be with me then we will see
Who's fuckin' with my head
Hey hey hey hey
Fuckin' with my head
Hey hey hey hey

Found myself in New Orleans
With a scarecrow in my jeans
Feed my forehead through the ceiling'
Drank my coffee with a hubcap
Yeah

Ooh...
When you want to be with me then we will see
Who's fuckin' with my head
No no no no
Fuckin' with my head
Hey hey hey hey

Devil's got your pantyhose on his head
Oh yeah, and he's robbing' me
But all I got's is cornbread
Well, you turn my body into a crutch
And now I'm limping' all over
When I feel your touch
Oh yeah

Ooh...
Ooh...

Put on my jack-eyed boots
Running' wild on the bayou
Now I'm talking' on a walkie-talkie
Credit card glued to my hand
Feels good

Ooh...
When you wanna be with me then we will see
Who's fuckin' with my head
Hey hey hey hey
No no no no
Fuckin' with my head
Make me feel like an asshole
I ain't got no soul
I ain't got no soul
No no no no
No no no no
No no no no
No no no no

Beck - Country Down

Oh country down
Where I found my proving ground
All along the floodline
Wheels are turning around
The hills roll out like centuries
Pass by without a sound
Just a mile outside of town

Down-river bound
Where the lemon-tea-sky fell down
A plot against your will
Is furrowed into your brow
Against your better judgment
It's all behind you now
Just a mile outside of town

What's the use
Of being found?
You can lose yourself
In some good ground
In the weeds hiding
Down the river right next door
There's no frame around your picture
Just a view through my back door

Time evermore
You just found what you're looking for
A tiger rose
Growing through your prison door
Reaching for sunlight
Can't see it anymore
Just a mile from my back door

You could wake up on a lifeboat 'neath the sun
On a ladder up to the sky
You're standing on the lowest rung
Holding a lifeline
Using my best defense
Running in the undertow
I couldn't fight against

Oh lay me down
Where we found my proving ground
All along the floodline
Waves are turning around
The hills roll out like centuries
Pass by without a sound
Just a mile outside of town