It takes a backwash man to sing a backwash song
Like a frying pan when the fire's gone
Driving my pig while the band's taking pictures in the grass
In my radio smashed
And I like pianos in the evening sun
Dragging my heels 'til my day is done
Saturday night in the captain's clothes
Tender horns blowin' in my jury 'fros
Yo soy un disco quebrado
Yo tengo chicle en el cerebro *
I can't believe my way back when
My Cadillac pants going much to fast
Karaoke weekend at the suicide shack
Community service and I'm still the mack
Shocked my finger, spots on my hand
I been spreading disease all across the land
Beautiful air-conditioned, sitting in the kitchen
Wishing I was living like a hit man
Face down in the guarantees
Jaundiced honchos gettin' busy with me
Because I get down I get down
I get down all the way
Yo soy un disco quebrado
Yo tengo chicle en el cerebro *
Sawdust songs of the plaid bartenders
Western Unions of the country westerns
Silver foxes looking for romance
In the chain smoke Kansas flashdance ass pants
And you got the hotwax residues
You never lose in your razor blade shoes
Stealing pesos out of my brain
Hazard signs down the Alamo lanes
Radar systems piercing the souls
You never get caught with the wax so rotten
All my days I got the grizzly words
Hijacked flavors that I'm flipping like birds
Yo soy un disco quebrado
Yo tengo chicle en el cerebro. *
girl: "who are you?"
man: "I'm the enchanting wizard of rhythm."
girl: "why did you come here?"
man: "I came here to tell you about the rhythms of the universe...."
*chorus translation: "I'm a broken record,
I have bubblegum in my brain"
Like a frying pan when the fire's gone
Driving my pig while the band's taking pictures in the grass
In my radio smashed
And I like pianos in the evening sun
Dragging my heels 'til my day is done
Saturday night in the captain's clothes
Tender horns blowin' in my jury 'fros
Yo tengo chicle en el cerebro *
My Cadillac pants going much to fast
Karaoke weekend at the suicide shack
Community service and I'm still the mack
Shocked my finger, spots on my hand
I been spreading disease all across the land
Beautiful air-conditioned, sitting in the kitchen
Wishing I was living like a hit man
Jaundiced honchos gettin' busy with me
Because I get down I get down
I get down all the way
Yo tengo chicle en el cerebro *
Western Unions of the country westerns
Silver foxes looking for romance
In the chain smoke Kansas flashdance ass pants
And you got the hotwax residues
You never lose in your razor blade shoes
Stealing pesos out of my brain
Hazard signs down the Alamo lanes
Radar systems piercing the souls
You never get caught with the wax so rotten
All my days I got the grizzly words
Hijacked flavors that I'm flipping like birds
Yo tengo chicle en el cerebro. *
man: "I'm the enchanting wizard of rhythm."
girl: "why did you come here?"
man: "I came here to tell you about the rhythms of the universe...."
I have bubblegum in my brain"
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I like it when Beck adds Spanish in his songs. It's cute listening to him pronounce the words. And he does it so well! :] If I said that line in my Spanish class, people wouldn't laugh because nobody at my school knows who Beck is.
which SUCKS.
word.
I love his songs with spanish in them. He's very obviously not a native speaker. He pronounces everything so.... white. Haha.
He is a "guero", after all.
He is a "guero", after all.
i love this song.. soo weird.. don't even try to explain it... just enjoy the delicious trippiness that is Beck. who are you? i'm the enchanting wizard of rythm. why did you come here? i came here to tell you about the rythms of the universe....
Silver foxes looking for romance In the chain smoke Kansas flashdance ass pants
THE best lyric line in all of music history.
yo soy un disco quebrado! tengo chicle en mi cerebro!
I said that one time in my spanish class and everyone laughed. beck=rad
This is my favorite Beck song of all time
Ye, my fav Beck song too... awesome sample as well. Anyone know where it is from?
Some beck lyrics make sense some don't. This song is composed of the non-sensical...
The ends weird with the one girl "who are you?"... "Why did you come here?" its just weird. But i like the song hehe. All of his songs are just so perfectly random.
I am spanish- I have been listening to the Odelay album for a while and I never got the spanish line until I read the lyrics right now! He sings it so cutely.