 Genius Lyrics
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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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Zoon – Round the Bend
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We don't have to worry / Life goes where it does / Faster than a bullet / From an, an empty gun / Turn yourself over / Loose change we could spend / Grinding down diamonds / 'Round
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Jeff Beck (Ft. Chrissie Hynde) – Mystery Train
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Train I ride, sixteen coaches long / Train I ride, sixteen coaches long / Well that long black train got my baby and gone / Train train, comin' 'round, 'round the bend / Train
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Eric Clapton & Jeff Beck – Moon River
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[Verse 1] / Moon river, wider than a mile / I'm crossing you in style some day / You dream maker, you heart breaker / Wherever you're goin', I'm goin' your way / [Verse 2] / Two
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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 – Untitled Song 2
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[Verse 1] / If I should blow it / Chances I’m losin’ / What we are doin’ to ourselves / We’re building up the problem / Curtains are fallin’ / Suddenly I’m crawlin’ from the ash
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New Radicals – You Get What You Give
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“You Get What You Give” became the signature song of the New Radicals, released as the lead single from their only album Maybe You’ve Been Brainwashed Too. It topped the pop charts
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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 – 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 – 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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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 – Lost Cause
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The sad-sack, lost-love mumble of Sea Change is so thoroughly down, it’s hard to imagine it producing a single. But Beck managed to inject his stoic sorrow into a few catchy tunes
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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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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 – End of the Day
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On End of the Day Beck profoundly points out that:
You owe nothing to the past but wasted time, to serve a sentence that was only in your mind."
We all worry sometimes how guilty
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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 – Guero
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See me comin to town with my soul / Straight down out of the world with my fingers / Holding onto the devil I know / All my troubles'll hang on your trigger / Take your eyes and
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Beck – Guess I’m Doing Fine
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The lyrics on Sea Change are direct, with none of the freewheeling word-association vibe of the music that made Beck famous. (The guess in Guess I’m Doing Fine sums about eleventy-
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Little Junior's Blue Flames – Mystery Train
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Junior Parker’s blues standard was the follow up to his previous track “Feelin' Good.” Elvis Presley would popularly cover this song in 1955.
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Annaleigh Ashford, Dequina Moore, Laura Bell Bundy, Legally Blonde Ensemble, Leslie Kritzner & Orfeh – Bend and Snap
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[SERENA] / Look at my ass, look at my thighs / I'm catnip to the guys / They chase my tail, they drool and pant / Wanna touch this, but they can't / [MARGOT/PILAR] / No! / [SERENA
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Radiohead – Creep
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According to Thom Yorke, “Creep” tells the tale of an inebriated man who tries to get the attention of a woman to whom he is attracted by following her around. In the end, he lacks
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Lesse – Stranger
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[Verse 1] / Talk to me / Sensed you in my dreams again / I recognized your voice / Talk to me / Distract me from reality / I’d rather hear your voice / Talk to me / [Pre Chorus
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The Yardbirds – Over Under Sideways Down
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Yardbirds drummer Jim McCarty explained: “‘Over Under Sideways Down’ was about the situation of having a good time – a bit of decadence, really – in the ‘60s. Cars and girls are
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Cam'ron (Ft. Disco Black) – Killa Bounce
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[Intro: Cam'ron] / Frenyce Entertainment / Turn the beat up / Keep quiet, bitch / [Verse 1: Cam'ron] / I-I-I been telling girls, fourth grade, in Mr. Noel's / We leave this
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June Tabor – The Auld Beggarman
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As I was a-linking o'er the lea / The finest weel that I ever did see / Looking for his charity / "Would you lodge a lame poor man?" / For the night being wet and it being cold
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Insane Clown Posse – Chop Chop Slide
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“Chop Chop Slide” is included as a hidden track on the green version of Bang! Pow! Boom! and on the second disc of Bang! Pow! Boom!: Nuclear Edition. The song is a Juggalo-themed
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DMZL (Ft. Aviv Shrieki's Home Jam Assembly) – Now i'm fucking worthy (Live Freestyle)
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Eyes so cold / I swear they know / They promised they won't tell a soul / I get by while getting low / And i get high and go back to be afraid of getting old / They don't mind
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