Keep on truckin' like a novacane hurricane
Low static on the paranoid shortwave
Short fuse, got to dismantle
Code-red: what's your handle?
Mission incredible undercover convoy
Full-tilt chromosome cowboy
X-ray search and destroy
Smoke stack black top novacane boy
Got some rum, long horn drum
Detonate with the suicide gate
Test-tube, still-born and dazed
Chump scum plays in the razor's haze
Got the momentum radioactive
Meltdown!
Circumsized with the operation
full spectrum generation
Cyanide ride down the turnpike
After hours on the miracle mic
Grinding the gears eighteen wheels
Rigs and robots riding on their heels
(?) roadblock making a cell block
Heats and infernos burning like drano
Down the horizon purple gasses
Semi-trucks hauling them asses
Novacane, hit the road express mode
Explode!
Novacane! Novacane!
Low static on the paranoid shortwave
Short fuse, got to dismantle
Code-red: what's your handle?
Full-tilt chromosome cowboy
X-ray search and destroy
Smoke stack black top novacane boy
Got some rum, long horn drum
Detonate with the suicide gate
Test-tube, still-born and dazed
Chump scum plays in the razor's haze
Got the momentum radioactive
Meltdown!
full spectrum generation
Cyanide ride down the turnpike
After hours on the miracle mic
Grinding the gears eighteen wheels
Rigs and robots riding on their heels
(?) roadblock making a cell block
Heats and infernos burning like drano
Down the horizon purple gasses
Semi-trucks hauling them asses
Novacane, hit the road express mode
Explode!
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Yeah, this song is essentially just a bunch of really awesome action-packed words, phrases, and scenarios packed into an incredibly Beck-beat. I mean, hell, "chromosome cowboy?" can't get much cooler than that
First time I saw a person has the same name as my friend, lol, Janos.
First time I saw a person has the same name as my friend, lol, Janos.
I feel that this song's about someone whose life is so bad that they have to turn to sex, alcohol, and drugs to numb the pain of everyday existence. That may be a stretch. I don't care.
neither do i. the song's too fantastic to really care about any sort of analysis
Great song, always thought it was Becks take on being a Truckie!
Beck is the master of musical oddity...
This song physically kicks my ass every fucking time i fucking hear it. FUCK YOU Beck you kick ass excuse for a man who, if I weren't heterosexual, would bear his children.
this song is a million genres of music in one! it's amazing! the noise breakdown, the robot-like chorus, the disco beat at the end too cool
I agree with Geordie, almost all of the lyrics are about driving a big rig. "What's your handle?" is the way truckdrivers ask for each others nicknames over the CB, esp in the 70s, kinda like your IM name today.
Novacane! Novacane! Yeaaaah beck never fails. hmm... I think maybe he has an obsession with trucks.