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Beck - Sing It Again

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Album: Mutations
Released: 1998

Sing It Again Lyrics

A town of disrespect
The trains are wrecked
The night is younger then us
Nowhere is anywhere else
You keep to yourself
Stirring the dregs where I have laid
The exit signs are flashing
Dead ends they won't come to life anymore
I pledge the rest
I should have guessed
Your love was hanging by threads
Tongues tied under the moon,
My love is a room of broken bottles
And tangled webs
The misers wind their minds
Like clocks that grind their gears
On and on
And if its meant
Some accident
Some coincidence
Crumbs fall out of the sky
When you wander by
The dust clouds blow
Nobody's home
Oh won't you lay my bags
Upon on the funeral fire and Sing It Again

Oh won't you lay my bags
Upon on the funeral fire and sing it again

Writer/s: Beck Hansen
Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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Sing It Again

Beck originally wrote this song for Johnny Cash's 1996 Unchained album, but decided not to submit the tune as he thought it was no good. Instead, it was included on his 1998 Mutations set. Cash eventually covered "Rowboat" from Stereopathetic Soulmanure instead.

Beck - We Live Again

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Album: Mutations
Released: 1998

We Live Again Lyrics

These withered hands
Have dug for a dream
Sifted through sand
And leftover nightmares
Over the hill
A desolate wind
Turns shit to gold
And blows my soul crazy

The end
O the end
We Live Again
O I grow weary of the end

O hungry days
The footsteps of fools
Gazing alone
Through sex-painted windows
Dredging the night
Drunk libertines
Stink like a colognes
From the newfangled wasteland

The end
O the end
We live again
O I grow weary of the end

Love is a plague
In a mix-match parade
Where the castaways look so deranged
When will the children learn
To let their wildernesses burn
And love will be new never cold and vacant

These withered hands have dug for a dream
Sifted through sand and leftover nightmares

The end
Of the end
We live again
Oh I grow weary of the end

Writer/s: Beck Hansen
Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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We Live Again

Beck's maternal grandfather Alfred "Al" Hansen was an avant garde artist who was a friend of Yoko Ono and John Cage. He was also a frequent visitor to The Factory, Andy Warhol's studio in New York. His death in June 1995 had a profound effect on Beck, who penned this song as a tribute to the man and his art.

Beck - Blue Moon

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Album: Morning Phase
Released: 2014

Blue Moon Lyrics

I'm so tired of being alone
These penitent walls are all I've known
Songbird calling across the water
Inside my silent asylum

Oh don't leave me on my own
Left me standing all alone
Cut me down to size so I can fit inside
Lies that will divide us both in time

See the turncoat on his knees
A vagabond that no one sees
When a moon is throwing shadows
You can't save the ones you've caught in battle

Oh don't leave me on my own
Left me standing all alone
Cut me down to size so I can fit inside
Lies you try to hide behind your eyes

Don't leave me on my own
Don't leave me on my own
So cut me down to size so I can fit inside
Lies that will divide us both in time

Writer/s: BECK HANSEN
Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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Blue Moon

The first track released from Beck's Morning Phase album, this lush acoustic rocker went online on January 20, 2014 ahead of the long player's release. The disc was billed as a successor to 2002's sparse Sea Change. Speaking to Rolling Stone, Beck described it as "California music," adding that when he makes any album, "I'm just fumbling around with chords and a mood. Hopefully something emerges."

He continued, "The songs are coming out of a California tradition. I'm hearing the Byrds, Crosby Stills and Nash, Gram Parsons, Neil Young – the bigger idea of what that sound is to me."

The song finds Beck looking for a little human connection as he sings of "I'm so tired of being alone," and the "vagabond that no one sees." Beck previously compared himself to a vagabond on French duo Air's 2001 track "The Vagabond," on which he was a guest vocalist.

There is an old Rodgers-Hart standard with the same title, which was originally written for the 1934 movie Manhattan Melodrama and has been recorded by Elvis Presley, Louis Armstrong and The Marcels amongst a whole slew of artists.
Beck appropriated the song name but didn't include the title in the lyrics.

The track also appeared in an episode of HBO's Girls and was included on the Girls Volume 2: All Adventurous Women Do… collection.

This was inspired by Peter Guralnick's two-volume Elvis biography Last Train to Memphis and Careless Love. Beck told NPR's All Songs Considered hosts Bob Boilen and Robin Hilton: "I'd had it on my shelf for like 15 years and I finally read it about a couple years ago. I feel like every musician when they're starting out should just read that book."

Beck added that the line "The lies you tried to hide behind your eyes" was influenced by the original "Blue Moon," which he feels encapsulates the purity that Elvis had at the beginning of his career. "When you read the book, you really get a sense of who he was at the beginning and then at the end," he explained. "You see him go through the entire cycle of, for lack of a better term, show business, until he's at the end in Vegas, ensconced in this hotel room, kind of remote and separated from the world and life. But when he's younger, he's just so accessible. He lived with his parents and after dinner would go and sit with his fans who'd all be waiting outside — they were allowed to wait. I don't know, that's what I was thinking about with it."

Beck has generally veered towards ambiguity in his lyrics, and a typical pattern can be observed in this song. The opening line - "I'm so tired of being alone" - sets out a theme, which he proceeds to apparently ignore instead turning to enigmatic imagery. "It makes it more interesting if there's a little bit of the elliptical happening," Beck commented to The Guardian of that particular habit. "Hopefully some of it translates. Perhaps it won't literally translate from the lyrics but somehow from the feel of the music. Even in the music, it's iffy you know, but it's a good attempt."

This song barely made it onto the album. Beck recalled to NME: "That was a demo I'd forgotten about and put on the shelf, and at the very last minute of finishing Morning Phase, I stumbled on it and we said 'Let's put this on the record too.'"

Beck - Paper Tiger

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Album: Sea Change
Released: 2002

Paper Tiger Lyrics

Just like a paper tiger
Torn apart by idle hands
Through the helter skelter morning
Fix yourself while you still can
No more ashes to ashes
No more cinders from the sky
All the laws of creation
Tell a dead man how to die

O deserts down below us
And storms up above
Like a stray dog gone defective
Like a paper tiger in the sun

Looking through a broken diamond
To make the past what it should be
Through the ruins and the weather
Capsized boats in the sea

O deserts down below us
And storms up above
Like a stray dog gone defective
Like a paper tiger in the sun

We're just holding on to nothing
To see how long nothing lasts

O deserts down below us
And storms up above
Like a stray dog gone defective
Like a paper tiger in the sun

Writer/s: Beck Hansen
Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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Paper Tiger

Beck's father, orchestrator David Campbell, helped with the brass and string arrangements on this song and the rest of the album. Beck told NPR how they worked together. "I usually get some kind of keyboard and I'll play the basic voicings and we'll map it out," he said. "With strings, a lot of times I'll play or sing parts over the song, which we'll transcribe."

He added: "For 'Paper Tiger' there's a whole solo that the orchestra does; that was actually something I sang, and then we just transcribed it."

A paper tiger is a person or thing that seems strong or threatening, but is, in fact, feeble or ineffective. The expression arose from a Chinese saying applied by Chairman Mao in the 1950s to the USA. Beck sings of the paper tiger protagonist in this song as being, "torn apart by idle hands."

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Beck - Morning

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Album: Morning Phase
Released: 2014

Morning Lyrics

Walk me out in the Morning dew, my honey.
Please, walk me out in the morning dew.
Can't walk you out in no morning dew.
Can't walk you out in no morning dew.

Thought I heard a young man crying.
Thought I heard a young man crying.
You did not hear no young man crying.
You did not hear no young man crying.

Thought I heard a young girl crying.

Thought I heard a young girl crying.
You did not hear no young girl crying.
You did not hear no young girl crying.

Now there is no more morning dew.
Now there is no more morning dew.
What they've been saying all these years has come true.
Now there is no more morning dew

Writer/s: DOBSON, BONNIE / ROSE, TIM
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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Morning

This track sets Morning Phase's dreamy mood, with Beck intoning, "Woke up this morning. From a long night in the storm." The album has a specific theme with all 12 songs are set in dawn's early light, the start of a day when a things can falter or start afresh. "It's not heavy-handed, but it's in there," Beck told Rolling Stone of the concept.

"There's this feeling of tumult and uncertainty, getting through that long, dark night of the soul – whatever you want to call it," he added, cracking a laugh. "These songs were about coming out of that – how things do get better."

Beck discussed the album title with Uncut magazine: "The album is called Morning Phase, but I suppose there was that double meaning there, 'mourning.' When I'm trying to come up with a title that sums up a group of songs, honestly, I'm just looking for something that doesn't make me cringe – or doesn't make me cringe too much," he said. "These songs, they're personal, their simple in that way."

"A lot of them referenced the morning, or the mourning of something," he continued. "And I kept thinking about this word 'phase.' Those two words came together, and really it felt like the closest approximation of the sound was going for."

Beck - Say Goodbye

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Beck - Say Goodbye Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Morning Phase
Released: 2014

Say Goodbye Lyrics

Say Goodbye
See the sleet that rests upon
The quiet street we're standing on
Is it time to go away
And try again some other day?
'Cause these are words we use to say goodbye
These are the words you use to say goodbye

Bones crack, curtains drawn
On my back and she is gone
Somewhere else I do not know
Time will tell and I will go
These are the words we use to say goodbye
These are the words we use to say goodbye

I will wait and take a turn
Sort it out, let it burn
Empty out empty drawer
In my pockets, there's nothing more
These are the words you use to say goodbye
These are the words we use to say goodbye

Writer/s: BECK HANSEN
Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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Beck - Country Down

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Album: Morning Phase
Released: 2014

Country Down Lyrics

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 sunken ground
In the weeds hiding down 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

Writer/s: BECK HANSEN
Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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Country Down

In 2012 Beck hit the studio with Jack White and laid down several songs. Two cuts from these new sessions, "I Just Started Hating Some People Today" and "Blue Randy" were released that year as a non-album single on White's Third Man label. This goodbye track, along with "Waking Light" and "Blackbird Chain" all made it onto Morning Phase.

Beck - Devil's Haircut

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Album: Odelay
Released: 1996

Devil's Haircut Lyrics

Somethin's wrong cause my mind is fading,
And everywhere I look there's a dead end waiting,
Temperature's dropping at the rotten oasis
Stealing kisses from the leprous faces
Heads are hanging from the garbageman trees
Mouthwash, jukebox, gasoline,
Pistols are pointing at a poor man's pockets
Smiling eyes with 'em out of the sockets

Got a Devil's Haircut in my mind
Got a devil's haircut in my mind
Got a devil's haircut in my mind
Got a devil's haircut in my mind

Love machines on the sympathy crutches
Discount orgies on the dropout buses
Hitchin' a ride with the bleedin' noses
Comin' to town with the briefcase blues

Got a devil's haircut in my mind
Got a devil's haircut in my mind
Got a devil's haircut in my mind
Got a devil's haircut in my mind

Somethin' wrong cause my mind is fading
Ghetto blastin' disintegrating
Rock 'n' roll, know what I'm saying?
Everywhere I look there's a devil in waiting

Got a devil's haircut in my mind
Got a devil's haircut in my mind
Got a devil's haircut in my mind
Got a devil's haircut in my mind
Got a devil's haircut in my mind
Got a devil's haircut in my mind
Got a devil's haircut in my mind

Writer/s: HANSEN, BECK / COULTER, PHILIP MICHAEL / SCOTT, TOMMY / KING, JOHN ROBERT / SIMPSON, MICHAEL S. / BROWN, JAMES
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group, CARLIN AMERICA INC, DOWNTOWN MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC
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Devil's Haircut

Beck sings some unique and bizarre lyrics - a bevy of grotesque, Beat poetic images like "discount orgies," "bleeding noses," "garbage man trees," and "stealing kisses from the leprous faces" are relatively off-putting. Beck uses them to evoke a feeling, a sense of disorientation, "A devil's haircut in my mind," the Blues.

In true blues fashion, the song is open to many interpretations. How do you define "The Blues?" Its definition seems to vary for listeners and artists. Beck noticed this "vague" quality himself. When asked, he's offered up numerous possible interpretations (from the silly, to the obscure, to the possible). Beck even made fun of it during his appearance on the TV show Futurama, with the line, "What was that song about?"

At the core, the song is about a feeling, and how the listener relates to it is pretty wide open. It's a song each listener can step into, and live in, and feel in their own way. There do seem to be a number of references to travel or touring, and it has been reported that the song was written just after Beck finished the difficult Lollapalooza tour, which had given him a few months break during the recording of Odelay. "Coming to town with the briefcase blues" and "rock and roll, know what I'm saying?" give the song a bit of a rock star, autobiographical touch.

One intriguing comment from Beck was that the song was a rewriting of the famous "Stagolee" blues myth: "I don't know if I ever HAD any youthful purity, but I can understand that you might be tempted to make commercial s--t and compromise to do it. I try not to compromise on anything. I think we associate becoming an adult with compromise. Maybe that's what the devil is. In 'Devils Haircut' that was the scenario. I imagined Stagger Lee... I thought, what if this guy showed up now in 1996. The song had this '60s grooviness, and I thought of using him as a Rumplestiltskin figure, this Lazarus figure to comment on where we've ended up as people. What would he make of materialism and greed and ideals of beauty and perfection? His reaction would be, 'Whoa, this is disturbing s--t.'"

Beck explained the song further as being "A really simplistic metaphor for the evil of vanity." But of course right after he said that in the same interview, he said the song wasn't planned out at all: "I thought 'Devils Haircut' was a really bad lyric. If I can't finish a song, I'll just put in something temporary. That's what 'Loser' was. Then the temporary one always becomes the best one, because it wasn't all thought out." So go figure. (thanks, James - San Antonio, TX, for all above)

The main riff for this song is from "I Can Only Give You Everything" by Them, a Belfast R&B band led by a young Van Morrison in 1965. Julian Cope also used the riff for his song "Reynard The Fox" in 1984. "I Can Only Give You Everything" was covered by a number of garage bands- it was MC5's first single and The Troggs recorded a version which was featured on one of their EPs. (thanks, Sandy - London, England)

In the cartoon series Futurama, Bender and Beck are talking about this song, and Beck eventually questions what he was talking about when he wrote it. (thanks, Jason - Oceanside, NY)

Beck recorded part of Odelay before going on the 1995 Lollapalooza tour, and the rest, including this track, after returning. He told Rolling Stone magazine (February 21, 2008): "Everything we did before was very complex - we would spend weeks on each track. When I came back, we did a bunch of songs really quick in two weeks. We did 'Devil's Haircut' and 'New Pollution' back to back in two days.'

Mark Romanek directed the video, which was inspired by the films The 400 Blows and Midnight Cowboy. The 400 Blows is a French film from 1959 directed by François Truffaut. It used a technique where the scene freezes and the camera zooms in, which Romanek emulated in "Devil's Haircut."

The scenes where Beck is walking the streets with a cowboy hat and a radio are based on Jon Voight's character in Midnight Cowboy (1969). Romanek says that in recreating the famous "I'm walkin' here" scene from the film, Beck really was hit by the car and hurt his leg.

Mike Simpson, half of the Dust Brothers production duo who produced the Odelay album, explained that the sampled guitar riff is technically not a sample. He told Music Radar : "It's Beck playing. Basically we'd sit and listen to records and Beck would go, 'Oh I really love the guitar sound on that song,' and he'd start playing it.

Beck had this broken 20W amp and we plugged it in and moved the mic around, and ran it through one of our little distortion pedals until we got the sound we were looking for. Then we'd record him playing. We had a pretty primitive recording setup back then."