One Foot In The Grave

Beck One Foot In The Grave Lyrics
1.He's a Mighty Good Leader

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


2.Sleeping Bag

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 in fire
and it's getting down to the wire
so Grab yourself a spot and settle down a while
'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
smokin' 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 tommorrow is just another crazy scam


3.I Get Lonesome

Well there ain't nobody left to impress
And everyone's kissing their own hands
The 666 on the kitchen floor
Ain't no fire in the pan
I get lonesome
So glad to be a slab
Stiff as a stick on the floor
I get thoughts and dirty socks
Out in the corner
I get lonesome
Getting fat on your own fear
Bring that beer over here
I stomp on the floor
Just to make a sound
I get lonesome


4.Burnt Orange Peel

I'm on the run with things to be
I've got a garden hose and a color tv
I've got time on my hands
I've got time on my hands
Nobody cares what I do

I'm on the run with things to do (we're on the road/long ago)
I've got a burnt orange peel and a potato stew
I've got work to get done
I've got work to get done
Nobody knows where to run

I've got a quart of milk and some sound advice
I've got trees that are fake,
But they smell so nice
Don't give me the flu
Nobody knows I'm with you

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


5.Cyanide Breath Mint

Definitely this is the wrong place to be
There's blood on the futon
There's a kid drinkin' fire
Goin' down to the sea
They've got people to meet
Shaking hands with themselves
Lookin' out for themselves
When they ask you credit
You give them a branch
When they want to get it
You 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 scape goat
Burning equipment
Decomposing
Cool of your jets
Take off your sweats
I got a funny feeling
They've got plastic in the afterlife
When they want you to cry
Leap up 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


6.See Water

Close your eyes and see water
sliding up the back of your head
folding into your clothing
covering everything you said

Climb up into
Who's going to miss you

Dry up on the shoreline
drinking everything you see
offering things to the ladies
bowing down in the mossen trees

Climb up into
Nobody's going to miss you


7.Ziplock Bag

go back home, bury my load
yellow cat laying flat on the road
been so long since i been gone
ziplock bag holding my comb


8.Hollow Log

Go where you want to
Do the things you feel
Walk around with a broken leg
And a hundred dollar bill
Get yourself a pistol
Get yourself a dog
Stay up all night gettin' drunk
Sleeping in a hollow log
Walk 'til you're restless
Sleep 'til you're tired
Wake up thinking you're the one that I desire


9.Forcefield

There's a force field
Go outside with the suitcase
'round my neck
and it stands just where
walk around all the while
i've sat
and the stance i took on
look at the people drivin'
that backwards
leaves a forcefield 'round with no particular style
my neck
Don't let it get near you
don't let it get to close
and the stance i took on
Don't let it turn you into tha
t leaves a forcefield 'round things you hate the most my neck
Roll out your silver dollar coffins
Roll out your buckskin gloves
Tell them anything they want to
and sound comes from above
Don't let it get near you
don't let it get to close
and the stance i took on
Don't let it turn you into that
leaves a forcefield 'round things you hate the most my neck
Don't let it get near you
don't let it get to close
don't let it turn you into
things you hate the most
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
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


10.Fourteen Rivers Fourteen Floods

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 trail
with a half dead mule
and nothing on my mind
all my life
i've been talkin' fast
taking all the things
that i should have let pass
put my hat
on my coffin nail
put another brick
in the fire place
well, i don't know
about you or me
but someone got loose
back in town


11.Asshole

Your brains went black when she took back her love
and put it out into the sun
The birds did fly when the heavens all went dry
And the cigarettes were smokin' 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 embarressed
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


12.I've Seen The Land Beyond

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 turnin' red
And the tongues
will burn in vain
and everything
will feel 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 own minds
and the spirit comes in the skies with no eyes
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


13.Outcome

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
riot cops cheerleaders
eyebrows painted on their heads
mouthful of rotting cavities
drinking coca cola in the street
never did I think it would come to this
outcome is different, than i expected
Shot in the leg
shot in the leg
my name is a bone
nobody home
my hand is a wire
the sky is on fire
the drums aren't beating
pistols in jeans
left for dead
left for dead
left for dead
dead as a fly


14.Girl Dreams

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 my dreams never come true
You're just the girl of my dreams
But it seems my dreams never come true


15.Painted Eyelids

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 sinkin' 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 station singin'
like a tiger with no skin
the sewer drain is flowing
and i don't know what 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 to 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 a blanket 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
with the clearest dream that ever drifted by


16.Atmospheric Conditions

There's no body
There's no mountain
There's no tunnel
You can't get from there to here
You can't get here to there
There's no body
There's no mountain
There's no tunnel
You can't get from there to here
You can't get here to there
There hasn't been a change in the atmosphere
There hasn't been a change for over a year
There hasn't been a change in the atmosphere
Pull the tap
Just a tad
(Gypsy Haircut)
There's no Atmosphere
(A bear skin rug, The tambourines)
Dig a tunnel through the mountian (Black Piano on the Mountian)
How many Atmospheres are out there?
(There's a broken bottle...in the tunnel)
There's a tunnel from here to there
Cut your hand on the Atmosphere
Split in Two
Bandaids on your hand
Split the Atmosphere
Split in Two
Staring at you