 Genius Lyrics
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Beck – Already Dead
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[Verse 1] / Time wears away all the pleasures of the day / All the treasures you could hold / Days turn to sand, losing strength in every hand / They can't hold you anymore / [
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Sahara Beck – C'mon Man You're Dead
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[Verse 1] / Look at all this trouble you caused here / For the ones you used to hold dear / Look at all these people that you hurt / See the way their hearts burn / [Pre-Chorus
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Beck – A Man Named Will
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One evening as a moonshiner laid in his room / Drinking himself to sleep / A dream came upon his eyes / Causing him to weep / It was all about a man named Will / A drinker from way
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Beck – Dead Wild Cat
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[Verse] / I'm sitting on an embankment on a highway going through rural Georgia... / And there was a dead wild cat and a bottle of beer that had been... / That had never been
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Jessica Beck – The old dead tree (in hillside park)
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How you sang to the trees / Of my knees, cut like words again / Bee stung I cry when I / Fall to the ground / And the song that you sing / Brings me begging for mercy / I'm getting
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Christophe Beck – Dead or Alive
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[Instrumental]
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Beck – The Golden Age
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A cloud of melancholy hangs over Sea Change, from the world-weary voice Beck employs on most of the tracks to its unfailingly morose lyrics:
These days I barely get by/ I don’t
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Beck – Dead Melodies
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[Verse 1] / Where will you go when this day is over / A gambler's purse lays on the road / Straight to your door, snakes have gone crazy tonight / Winding their way out of sight
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Sahara Beck – I Won't Let This Die
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This boy always said / Be careful I’d rather be dead / And she said, come on give me your hand / We’ll fly up to the moon / They flew the universe / Those two breathers / And I can
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Beck – Paper Tiger
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Sea Change’s most daring tracks that are ultimately its most satisfying. Beck’s father, David Campbell, contributes inventive string arrangements to three cuts: Paper Tiger is a
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Beck – No Complaints
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[Verse 1] / We are aimless / And the target is an empty wall / We're out of patience / With smiles that cut across her face / [Chorus 1] / No complaints, but I wish I had more time
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Beck – Round the Bend
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Sea Change bounces back in a major way with Round the Bend, a gorgeously hypnotic, string-laden track with a tune that borrows from previous Beck musings but pushes it in an
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Beck – High 5 (Rock the Catskills)
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[Intro] / High five / High five / High five / High five / Come on, hey, everybody / Come on, seven, come on now, six, five / Gimme five / Aw yeah, I like that shit / Gimme five
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Jeff Beck (Ft. Imelda May) – Danny Boy
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[Verse 1] / Oh Danny boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling / From glen to glen and down the mountain side / The summer's gone, and all the roses falling / 'Tis you, 'tis you, you
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Beck – Sunday Sun
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[Verse 1] / Haven't got a lot to learn / And my eyes, they stray again / Looking for a satellite / In the rays of Heaven again / [Chorus] / There's no other ending / Sunday sun
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Beck – Ship In A Bottle
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“Ship in a Bottle” was one of the songs recorded for Sea Change. Alas, it was left off the record, in most cases; It is a bonus track on the Japanese version of the album. It’s a
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Beck – Fume
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My friend picked me up about quarter past five / We stopped and got some donuts, and we took a little drive / We had a can of nitrous, we rolled the windows up / Now we're
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Beck – 8.4.82
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[Verse] / Today's uhh august 4th, 1982 ... / I'm really bored and there was some dead animals that we played with ... / There was a weed wacker ... We stole two of them ... / A cop
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Bauhaus – Bela Lugosi's Dead
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Often considered to be the first gothic rock single, “Bela Lugosi’s Dead” refers to the Hungarian-American actor Bela Lugosi, famous for his role as Dracula in the 1931 Hollywood
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Beck – Elevator Music
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[Intro] / 1, 2, you know what to do / Alright / [Verse 1] / I'm uptight super, gathered out of the frame / I shake a leg on the ground like an epileptic battery man / I'm making my
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Beck – American Wasteland
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[Intro] / Barney Miller was a cop / Barney Miller was a cop / He's dead / This guy's a poser / This next song is called "American Wasteland" / [Verse 1] / Something's wrong 'cause
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Beck – Lonesome Tears
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Lonesome Tears is another quite black and white song, with a chorus that sneaks up and envelops the listener with its enormous scale compared to the rest of the song.
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Beck – Devils Haircut
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Devils Haircut is Beck’s second single supporting his 1996 studio album Odelay.
Similar to most of Beck’s songs on Odelay and surrounding material, a good deal of this song is
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Christophe Beck – Really Elegant Diversion
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During a political fundraising dinner, Victoria and Marvin (Helen Mirren and John Malkovich) stage a fake assassination attempt on the Vice President (Julian McMahon) to drive him
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Beck – Little One
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[Verse 1] / Go to sleep, we're so tired now / All together in a snake pit of souls / New days, throw your chains away / Try to hang your hopes on the wind / [Chorus] / Little one
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Beck – Cities
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[Intro] / Aaaaaaah / Aaaaaaah / Aaaaaaah / Aaaaaaah / Aaaaaaah / Aaaaaaah / Aaaaaaah / [Verse 1] / -Waiting for the night to come / There's a hundred dead cities outside / Waiting
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Beck – Olde English
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Bottle up pain and you were better off dead / And I would rather love your daughter, but it's gone to my head / Jukebox playing with a notion to explode / Drag racers bent on
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Beck – Youthless
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[Verse 1] / There's a bottomless pit that we've been climbing from / Just to get on level ground / Shake your seasick legs around / Dead of winter in a logo town / Signs of life
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Beck – Side of the Road
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The album closer on Beck’s singer-songwriter masterpiece, Sea Change, Side of the Road is marked by a wistful melody, spare instrumentation, and an intimate, hushed vocal.
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Thavius Beck (Ft. 2Mex) – Dedicated To Difficulty
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We dedicate this to difficulty / Even if for a minute / Only infinitely lonely / The dream is dead / There's no pony / A pain that you know only / You pushed away the last person
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CThruRio – dead man walkin
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[Verse 1] / Huh, it’s been a good time but girl I gotta go / Look at the sunrise as I put on my clothes / Yeah, there’s acid in this glass let’s make a toast / I remember when you
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