Duck, don't look now, company missiles
Power is raunchy when the cops are watching
Make your dreams out of paper mache
Cliched wasted hate taste-tested
Hell yes now I'm moving this way, I'm doing this thing
Hell yes now I'm turning it on, I'm working my legs
Hell yes now I'm calling you out, I'm switching my plates
Hell yes now I'm cleaning the floor, my beat is correct
Yea, that's it.
Yea, that's it.
Hi.
Snap back the track, collapsin' the laugh tracks
Noise response, applause and handclaps
Floodgates open to the sound of the rainbow
Makin' points on the verge of pointless
Fools anointed to the follower's fanfare
Look for the common, not superficial
Code Red cola ?? crisis
Perfunctory idols rewriting their bibles
With magic markers running out of their ink
Lives and White Out, turn the lights out
Fax machine anthems, get your damned hands up
Hell yes now I'm moving this way, I'm doing this thing
Hell yes now I'm turning it on, I'm working my legs
Hell yes now I'm calling you out, I'm switching my plates
Hell yes now I'm cleaning the floor, my beat is correct
Hi.
I like your bass.
Your beat is nice.
Yea, that's it.
Yes. Yes.
Hell yes now I'm turning it on, I'm working my legs
Hell yes now I'm calling you out, I'm switching my plates
Hell yes now I'm cleaning the floor, my beat is correct
I personally love this song, but of course im not the biggest beck fan (as of now, soon to be perhaps?) very catchy tune.
The great thing about Beck is you can totally interpret it however you want it. The confusing thing about this is, well, we all varied opinions about this.
Personally, this song makes me think of the Iraq/Afghanistan Wars. (This is a personally opinion, keep in mind.) For example, the whole first stanza has these frequent references to bombing and the like, e.g.: z'Fake prizes rising out of the bomb holes."
I think of the shock-n-awe campaign at the beginning of the Iraq conflict, where we were all like, "FUCK YEAH, MURICA!" and bombing the shit out of Baghdad. It was supposed to get us a prize (YAY we beat Saddam) but as the occupation rolls on, "IT'S A TRAP."
And to expand on that:
"Bank notes burn like smoking equipment Looking for shelter, readjust your position."
Towards the beginning of the war, there were more than a few cases of fighter jets/artillery landing strikes uncomfortably close to troops at the very tippy-top of the front lines. So...to me, the "looking for shelter, readjust your position" (and the whole: "Duck don't look now, company missiles" makes me think of the near friendly-fire by artillery and air forces. Like, "oh shit, dude, you're basically shooting US."
Beck also makes references towards "limited attention spans" and "perfunctory idols rewriting their bibles with magic markers running out of ink." I tend to think that this could reference the fact that after two years of war, the American public kinda got bored and got interested in something else shiny and explosive. Since we weren't feeling the impact of the war first hand (rations, draft, etc), we grew bored of the conflict and got busy bitching about something else. As to the Bibles w/ magic markers (which is awesome, one): as the war in Iraq progressed, people were like, "Why the fuck are we HERE?" to which war hawks had to quickly revamp their "PURPOSES IN IRAQ" strategy and find a reason that would stick with a disatisfied public and confused troop presence on the ground. But as the war dragged on, the magic markers rewriting excuses and bullshit logic were getting fainter and fainter - they were running out.
Anyway: goddamn, I love this song. This was my interpretation of it. I'd love to hear other opinions.
@LaFlamingo I used to think it was just a song about tearing it up on the dance floor in the vein of Where It's At, but the war imagery definitely makes for an odd juxtaposition. So you either have a dance scene so intense it's as chaotic as a warzone, or the converse: soldiers are fighting on the strong side of an asymmetric war, and the power rush they get is similar to a skilled dancer "cleanin' the floor". Certainly an interesting double entendre there, as cleaning the floor can also mean the killing of enemy combatants....
@LaFlamingo I used to think it was just a song about tearing it up on the dance floor in the vein of Where It's At, but the war imagery definitely makes for an odd juxtaposition. So you either have a dance scene so intense it's as chaotic as a warzone, or the converse: soldiers are fighting on the strong side of an asymmetric war, and the power rush they get is similar to a skilled dancer "cleanin' the floor". Certainly an interesting double entendre there, as cleaning the floor can also mean the killing of enemy combatants.
some1 comment about this song....i hate it...
Robot: "Biatch"
jmujkano, what you said would be true if he hadn't released every album he released prior to Sea Change. But he did.
Anyways, if you haven't listened to Odelay or ignore that Odelay exists, this is a great song. It's very groovy.
i personally love this song. it just shows how 'out there' beck is, and how he doesn't care what anyone thinks of him and just does whatever he wants to. i mean, after the success(and brilliance) of sea change, you'd think that he'd come out with something similar. instead we have guero! i think we should all just join the ride that beck's taking us on.
I'm definately feeling this song. Totally not normally my thing, but I guess my taste is evolving. like "skeleton boys hyped up on purple" and "perfunctory idols rewriting their bibles"...it just seems so crazy. Its the perfect song to play in the car on the way to a party or something.
Also, the lyric goes: "code red cola war conformity crisis"
"My beat is correct."
Fuckin A.
I dig this because of the funk aspect. The 8-bit variation on the iTunes store is great, and the original is actually funkier.
HELL YES!
my beat is correct ... sounds different in the song... if you know what I mean....
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