Modern Guilt

Beck Modern Guilt Lyrics
1.Orphans (ft. Cat Power)

Think I'm stranded but I don't know where
I got this diamond I don't know how to shine
In the sun where the dark winds wail
And these children leave their rulers behind
As we cross ten leagues from a rubicon
The matchsticks for my bones
If we can learn how to freeze ourselves alive
We can learn to leave these burdens to burn
Cast out these creatures of woe
Who shatter themselves
Fighting the fire with your bare hands
Now my journey takes me further south
I want to hear what the blind men sing
With their fossils and their gypsy bones
I'll stand beside myself so I'm not alone
And how can I make new again what rusts every time it rains
And the rain it comes and floods our lungs
We're just orphans in a tidal wave's wake
If I wake up and see my maker coming
With all of his crimson and his iron desire
We'll drag the streets with the baggage of longing to be loved
or destroyed
From a void to a grain of sand in your hand
Ahhhh
Ahhhh ooh ooh


2.Gamma Ray

Trying to hold
Hold out for now
With these ice caps
Melting down
With the transistor sound
And my Chevrolet terraplane
Going round, round, round
Come a little gamma ray
Standing in a hurricane
Your brains are bored
Like a refugee
From the houses burning
And the heat wave's
Calling your name
She's got
On a cactus crown
With a dot, dot, dot
On her brow
And she speaks
Inside crowd
With the cavalry
Turning around
Hit me like a gamma ray
Standing in a hurricane
And I'm pulling
Out thorns
Smokestack lightning
Out my window
I want to know
What I've lost today
Come a little gamma ray
Standing in a hurricane
When your body's bored
Like a refugee
From the houses burning
And the backbiters
Calling your name


3.Chemtrails

I can't believe
What we've
Seen outside
You and me
Watching the jets
Go by
Oh, ooh, oh
Oh, ooh, oh
Just what I've seen
So many people
Falling in ??
You and me
Watching the sea
Full of people
Try not to drown
So many people
So many people
Where do they go?
You and me
Watching the sky
In the future
That's where
We can go
All I can take
From these skies
Is fog
And all I can see
In this light
A boat sinking
Oh, oooh
Oh, oooh, oh
Somebody's sea
Swallowed by evil
Already gone
You and me
Watching the sea
Full of people
Already drowning
So many people
So many people
Where did they go?
You and me
Hit by a cloud
?? eagle
Watching the jets
Pass go by
You and me watching
You and me watching
???
That's what I mean
When we talk
In this jetstream
We're climbing
A hole in the sky


4.Modern Guilt

Hey....Hey...da da da da
I feel uptight when I walk in the city
I feel so cold when I'm at home
Feels like everything's starting to hit me
I lost bed ten minutes ago
Modern guilt I'm staring at nothing
Modern guilt I'm under lock and key
It's not what I have changed,
Turning into convention
Don't know what I've done but I feel ashamed
Standing outside the glass room sidewalk
These people talk about impossible things
And I'm falling down the conversations
Another palm beats into you
Modern guilt is all in our hands
Modern guilt won't get me to bed
Say what you will
Smoking my cigarette
Don't know what I've done but I feel afraid
Da da da...


5.Youthless

There's a bottomless pit that we've been climbing from
Just to get on level ground
Shake your seasick legs around
Dead of winter in a logo town
Signs of life are soft and flickering
Need a bed to lay my body down
Deadweight to carry down
Some static is lulling me to sleep
Hang your clothes on a chain link fence
In a junkyard say amen
Your mouth is full of wordless hymns
And run-on sentences
And they're helpless and forgetting in the background
Holding nothing
And they're youthless and pretending with their bare hands
Holding nothing
There's a million horses dragging down a monolith
With these trademarks so bereaved
Tied my leg to a barricade
With a plastic hand grenade
They tried to turn emotion into noise
Need a teleprompter for my life
Need a pipeline to the night
My body can't get no relief
And this life it goes by fast
You're treading water in the past
Trying to re-animate something that you can't understand
And they're helpless and forgetting in the background saying
nothing
And he's youthless and forgetting with his bare hands touching
nothing
And he's helpless and forgetting in the background saying
nothing
And he's youthless and pretending with his bare hands holding
nothing


6.Walls (ft. Cat Power)

Some days
I get a thrill
In my brains
Some days ??
See a face
Into the mirror
Reflecting
On the surface of fear
Because you know
I'm never better
Than that
Some days are worse
Than you can imagine
How'm I supposed
To live with that?
On this train ???
Hey
What are you gonna do
When those walls
Are falling down
Falling down on you?
Hey
What are you gonna do
When those walls
Are falling down
Falling down on you?
You got warheads
Stacked in the kitchen
You treat distraction
Like an instant religion
The battlesticks snap
At the rhythm
You give your best
With the souls
You've been given
'Cause you know
You're nothing
Special to them
Going someplace
You've already been
Trying to make sense
Of what
They call wisdom
And this riff-raff
Life ain't with them
Hey
What are you gonna do
When those walls
Are falling down
Falling down on you?
Hey
What are you gonna do
When those walls
Are falling down
Falling down on you?
You're wearing all
Of the years on your face
Turn a Tombstone ?? place
And your heart
Only beats in a murmur
But your words ring out
Like murder


7.Replica

make a perfect replica of your life
??
tape it up
tape it up
it's good to have in your room
i'm so tired don't know where to begin
it's so unreal
it's all i know
it's magical
aaahhhh ooohhhh
hey, ahhh, hey, ahhh
heyyy
would you like to see me down on my knees
cause everybody's ?? disease
?? fights against me
making replicas of places to sleep
we can live in a hollow tree
grow a boat and bury the sea
??
i throw it up and now it's home for me
it's so unreal
it's all i know
it's magical
aaahhhh ooohhhh
hey, ahhh, hey, ahhh
heyyy
give it up
all this replica
that we build at home
coming up coming up coming up
aaah...


8.Soul of a Man

Beat my bones against the wall
Staring down an empty hall
Deep down in a hollow log
Coming home like a letter bomb
Cold was the storm
That covered the night
Call a doctor, call a ghost
Put a fire into your bones
Sic a dog on all you know
Cut it loose before you go
Cold was the storm
That covered the night
What makes the soul, the soul of a man?
Beat my bones against the wall
Put a bank note on your bond
Gris Gris and a goldenrod
Down deep in a hollow log
Cold was the storm
That buried the night
What makes the soul, the soul of a man?


9.Profanity Prayers

?? you couldn't help
Much ?? a preacher
With the ??
And the fireproof
Bones of a teacher
And your bingo card
Comes sacrament of a casino
On the half of me now
With the guillotine libido
Who's got an answer?
Profanity prayers
Who's got an answer?
Profanity prayers
Well you know how it looks
When you close
All your books on the table
And you stare into space
Trying to decide the way now
And you wait at the light
And watch for a sign
That you're breathing
'Cause you can't choose
To live on air
And float to the ceiling
Who's got an answer?
Profanity prayers
Who's got an answer?
Profanity prayers
Who's got an answer?
Profanity prayers
Who's got an answer?
Profanity prayers


10.Volcano

I've been walking on
These streets so long
I don't know
Where they're
Calling me anymore
But I think
I must have seen a ghost
I don't know
If it's my illusions
That keep me alive
I don't know what I see
Was it all an illusion?
Or a mirage gone bad?
I'm tired of evil
And all the things
That I don't know
And I've been drifting
On this wave so long
I don't know
If it's already
Crashed on the shore
And I've been riding
On this train so long
I can't tell
If it's you or me
Who is driving us
Into the ground
I don't know
If I'm sane
But there's a ghost In my heart
That's trying To see in the dark
I'm tired of people
Who only want
To be pleased
But I still want
To please you
And I heard Of that Japanese girl
Who jumped Into The Volcano
Was she trying To make it back
Back into the womb
Of the world?
I've been drinking
All these tears so long
All I've got left
Is the taste of salt
In my mouth
I don't know Where I've been
But I know Where I'm going
To that volcano
I don't want To fall in though
So I want my bones
On the firing line