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One Foot in the Grave
by Beck
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Overall Rating:
2.5681
Avg. Critic Score:
3.2000
One Foot in the Grave Lyrics
Lyrics
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- He's a mighty good leader, he's a mighty good leader
- He's a mighty good leader all the way
- All the way, Lord, from up to heaven
- He's a mighty good leader all the way
- He led my mother, he led my mother
- He led my mother all the way
- All the way, Lord, from up to heaven
- He led my mother all the way
- He's a mighty good leader, he's a mighty good leader
- He's a mighty good leader all the way
- All the way, Lord, from up to heaven
- He's a mighty good leader all the way
- Open up the door, lay the orange juice on the floor
- They're having a picnic on the other side of town
- There's sleeping bags 'n' fire and it's getting down to the wire
- So grab yourself a spot and settle down awhile
- 'Cause it's getting hard to think and my clothes are starting to shrink
- And the moon is sagging down like a metal ball
- And the world is a holiday smoking in an old ashtray
- They just blow it out their nose and say "okay"
- So let's try to make it last, the past is still the past
- And tomorrow is just another crazy scam
- Well, there ain't nobody left to impress
- And everyone's kissing their own hands
- There's 6-6-6 on the kitchen floor
- There ain't no fire in the pan
- I get lonesome, I get lonesome
- I get lonesome, I get lonesome
- So glad to be a slab
- Stiff as a stick on a board
- I get thoughts and dirty socks
- Piled in the corner
- I get lonesome, I get lonesome
- I get lonesome, I get lonesome
- Gettin' fat on your own fear
- Bring that beer over here
- I stomp on the floor
- Just to make a sound
- I get lonesome, I get lonesome
- I get lonesome, I get lonesome
- Long ago, things to be, I got a garden hose and a color tv
- I got time on my hands, I got time on my hands
- Nobody cares what I do!
- Long ago, things to do, I got a burnt orange peel and a potato stew
- I got work to get done, got work to get done
- Nobody knows where to run!
- You got a carton of milk, got some sound advice
- Got some trees that are fake but they smell so nice
- Don't give me the flu! Nobody knows what we do!
- Back and forth, I dodge a fly, like a feather in the sky
- Write me out a check, give me all your cash
- Nobody knows so let's just go home
- Definitely this is the wrong place to be
- There's blood on the futon, there's a kid drinking fire
- Going down to the sea, they got people to meet
- Shaking hands with themselves, looking out for themselves
- When they ask you for credit, give them a branch
- When they want you to get it, chew on the grass
- I know, I know 'cause they told me to tell you
- There's nothing to tell you, there's nothing to sell you
- In the afternoon, riding the scapegoat
- Burning equipment decomposing
- Cool off your jets, take off your sweats
- I got a funny feeling they got plastic in the afterlife
- When they want you to cry, leap into the sky
- When they suck your mind, like a pigeon, you'll fly
- I know, I know it's the positive people
- Running from their time, looking for some feeling
- Close your eyes and see water
- Sliding up the back of your head
- Folding into your clothing
- Coloring everything you've said
- Climb up into, no-one's gonna miss you
- Dry up on the shoreline
- Shrinking everything you see
- Offering food to the ladies
- Pulling them animals and trees
- Climb up into, no-one's gonna miss you
- Go back home, bury my load
- Yellow cat laying flat on the road
- Been so long since I've been gone
- Ziplock bag holding my comb
- Beck's main vocals:
- Stand outside my suitcase
- Walk around all the while
- Look at the people driving backwards
- In no particular style
- Don't let it get near you
- Don't let it get too close
- Don't let it turn you into
- The things you hate the most
- Roll out your silver dollar coffins
- Roll out your buckskin gloves
- Tell them anything I want to
- The sound comes from above
- Don't let it get near you
- Don't let it get too close
- Don't let it turn you into
- The things you hate the most
- Don't let it get near you
- Don't let it get too close
- Don't let it turn you into
- The things you hate the most
- Lalalalala...
- Sam Jayne's backing vocals:
- There's a forcefield 'round my neck
- And it stands just where I've sat
- And the stance I took on that
- Leaves a forcefield 'round my neck
- And the stance I took on that
- Leaves a forcefield 'round my neck
- And the stance I took on that
- Leaves a forcefield 'round my neck
- There's a forcefield 'round my neck
- And it stands just where I sit
- And the stance I took on that
- Leaves a forcefield 'round my neck
- There's a forcefield 'round my neck
- And it stands just where I sit
- And the stance I took on that
- Leaves a forcefield 'round my neck
- Fourteen rivers, fourteen floods
- Bend your body to the heavens above
- Don't get drunk, don't get dry
- Just bring your money next Saturday night
- Fourteen miles on the Tanton trail
- With a half-dead mule and nothing on my mind
- All my life, I been talking fast
- Taking all the things that I should've let pass
- Throw my hat on a coffin nail
- Put another brick in a fireplace
- Well I don't know that you want me
- But someone got loose back in the town
- Your brains went black when she took back her love and put it out into the sun
- The birds all did fly when the heavens all went dry and the cigarettes were smoking by themselves
- She'll do anything, she'll do anything, she'll do anything to make you feel like an asshole
- Call her name, she looks the same as you, question marks stretched across her skin
- She dangles carrots, makes you feel embarrassed to be the fool you know you are
- She'll do anything, she'll do anything, she'll do anything to make you feel like an asshole
- From these shores where we belong
- I have seen the land beyond
- Where the Lord is strange and strong
- I have seen the land beyond
- There's no telling who'll be dead
- When the pale horse is turning red
- And the tongues will burn in vain
- And then everything will be the same
- There's no patience, there's no peace
- I have seen the land beyond
- Where the gravestones never cease
- I have seen the land beyond
- Through the troubles of the years
- The heavenly apparition appears
- And we're haunted by our minds
- And the spirit comes in disguise
- From these shores where we belong
- I have seen the land beyond
- I'll be there and I'll be gone
- I have seen the land beyond
- Seventeen years in the city
- Static clinging to the ceiling
- Never did I think it would come to this
- Outcome is different than I expected
- Never did I think it would come to this
- Outcome is different than I expected
- Riot cops and cheerleaders
- Eyebrows painted on their heads
- A mouth full of rotting cavities
- Drinking coca-cola in the street
- Never did I think it would come to this
- Outcome is different than I expected
- No, never did I think it would come to this
- Outcome is different than I expected
- Shot in the leg, shot in the leg
- ??? is a bone, nobody home
- My hand is a wire, the sky is on fire
- The drums are beating, pistols and jeans
- Left for dead, left for dead
- Left for dead, dead as a fly
- You're just the girl of my dreams
- But it seems my dreams never come true
- You're just the girl of my dreams
- But it seems my dreams never come true
- I first met you down on Lover's Lane
- The birds were insane, flapping all about
- Softly you would sing, swinging in your swing
- It wasn't night, it wasn't day
- You're just the girl of my dreams
- But it seems my dreams never come true
- You're just the girl of my dreams
- But it seems that my dreams never come true
- You're just the girl of my dreams
- But it seems my dreams never come true
- I wake up and look upon your painted eyelids.
- The world is your oyster and the trash bags are your kids.
- The ceiling is invisible. There's a bird sinking through the sky.
- And every hour that passes is teaching me how to cry.
- 'Cause it's lonely here in the ugly part of town.
- The buildings are all vacant and the telephones are down.
- There's a police siren singing like a tiger with no skin.
- The sewer drain is glowing and I don't know which state I'm in.
- And the river is on fire. There's chemicals and debris.
- And all the roads are blocked off. They're just too hard to see.
- So cancel my appointments and set up a whole new show.
- 'Cause I'm in need of a good hot meal and a life to call my own.
- So get me a plate of money and get me a blanket and a chair.
- The limitations are limitless. They're floating through the air.
- 'Cause it's real and it's true—the things I see in you.
- And there's nothing I wouldn't talk about.
- You're the clearest dream that ever drifted by.
- There's nobody, there's no mountain, there's no tunnel
- You can't get from there to here, you can't get from here to there
- There's nobody, there's no mountain, there's no tunnel
- You can't get from there to here, you can't get from here to there
- There hasn't been a change in the atmosphere
- Nothing twisting round, burning down, coming round
- There hasn't been a change for over a year
- Sliding through, riding through, hiding you
- There hasn't been a change in the atmosphere
- Shut it up, roll it up, find anew
- Pull the tab, give it a stab, there's no happiness fear
- A gypsy haircut, a bearskin rug, the tambourines, a black piano
- On the mountain to the atmosphere's out there
- Dig a tunnel through the mountain to the atmosphere's out there
- There's a tunnel from there to here
- There's a broken bottle from the tunnel
- Cut your hand on the atmosphere
- Split in two, band-aids on your hand
- Split the atmosphere is split in two, staring at you
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