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Milk & Honey Lyrics
Don't take your red ribbons off
You're about to make a fool of yourself
In the aluminum sunset
Drinking from a drain
I'm a hundred miles behind myself
Milk and honey
Pouring down like money
Make a poor boy wanna run
Milk and Honey
Do you wanna love me
Under the aluminum sun
Did you hear those war torn stories
Where the lifeguards slept in the streets
In the jungle lands
With the cold cola cans
You'll get the keys to the city for free
Milk and honey
Pouring down like money
Bring a poor boy to his knees
Milk and honey
No it isn't funny
Living in a garden of sleaze
Bangkok athletes in the biosphere
Arkansas wet dreams
We all disappear
Kremlin mistress
Rings the buddah chimes
She slips me ruffies
Receding hairlines
She's all right...touching my body
She's all right...on my computer
She's all right...selling me watches
She's all right...ring on my finger
You're about to make a fool of yourself
In the aluminum sunset
Drinking from a drain
I'm a hundred miles behind myself
Pouring down like money
Make a poor boy wanna run
Milk and Honey
Do you wanna love me
Under the aluminum sun
Where the lifeguards slept in the streets
In the jungle lands
With the cold cola cans
You'll get the keys to the city for free
Pouring down like money
Bring a poor boy to his knees
Milk and honey
No it isn't funny
Living in a garden of sleaze
Arkansas wet dreams
We all disappear
Kremlin mistress
Rings the buddah chimes
She slips me ruffies
Receding hairlines
She's all right...on my computer
She's all right...selling me watches
She's all right...ring on my finger
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I'm wondering, from the last verse, whether he's refering to many different women as his subject, or to women in general? To fantasies? "She's all right...touching my body": a prostitute? "She's all right...on my computer": pornography? "She's all right...selling me watches": a model? "She's all right...ring on my finger": a wife? a partner?
I think for this one, Beck put a bunch of words on a corkboard and threw darts. Actually for most songs I think he did that. Someone should make a Random Beck Lyric Generator.
Love the amazing guitar outro... pretty sure based on the liner notes that's the one and only Johnny Marr.
"She slips me ruffies"
this chick is tempting. "bring a poor boy to his knees"
I quite agree with LMK. ^^ rofl at smartbunny; but I think every Beck song has a meaning...even if it's only known by him. o_o
In any event, Beck = Love.
I always thought that it said: "Milk and honey, runnin' down my body!" If you listen to it it does sound like that! But now I know!
I thought so too. I'm gonna keep pretending that's what he's saying. Cuz Beck is the sex.
I thought so too. I'm gonna keep pretending that's what he's saying. Cuz Beck is the sex.
Beck is obviously a very unique lyricist, and it's impossible to know what his thoughts were while writing this song, but I think it might be a statement on something like 'desire' or the 'failure of the American Dream.' The phrase "Milk and Honey" originates from a passage in The Old Testament referring to the "Promised Land" as one flowing with "milk and honey," and has since come to symbolize abundance of resources and wealth. A "land of milk and honey" is a place where things are in great abundance; it is a sort of utopian idea. That said, I think the song may attempt to draw comparisons and distinctions between the reality of such a place, and the projected fantasy. The reality seems to be more grim, with it's "aluminum sun" and "war torn stories." The passage that starts "Did you hear those war torn stories" seems to describe the Vietnam War.