xArtist : BECK Album : MELLOW GOLD Added by Mikhailo ([email protected]) __________________________________________________________ TRANSCRIBED BY MAXXDADDY 1. LOSER 2. PAY NO MIND 3. FUCKIN WITH MY HEAD 4. WHISKEYCLONE HOTEL CITY 1997 5. SOUL SUCKING JERK 6. TRUCKDRIVING NEIGHBOR DOWNSTAIRS 7. SWEET SUNSHINE 8. BEERCAN 9. STEAL MY BODY HOME 10. NIGHTMARE HIPPY GIRL 11. MUTHERFUKER 12. BLACK HOLE ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1. LOSER Dropped D Tuning first riff E||----------------------|| B||----------------------|| G||----------------------|| D||-0-----0-----0-----5\-|| A||-0-----------------5\-|| D||-0--/4----/4-------5\-|| second riff ||-----0-2-2-0------0-2-2-0-3-|| ||---3------------3-----------|| ||-2------------2-------------|| ||----------------------------|| ||----------------------------|| ||----------------------------|| third riff:(after "pigeon wing" 4x ||---------------------|| ||----1~------1~--3--1-|| ||-/2------/2----------|| ||---------------------|| ||---------------------|| ||---------------------|| Lyrics: In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey butane in my veins so i'm out to cut the junkie with the plastic eyeballs, spray paint the vegetables dog food stalls with the beefcake pantyhose kill the headlights and put it in neutral stock car flamin' with a loser and the cruise control baby's in Reno with the vitamin D got a couple of couches, sleep on the love seat someone keeps sayin' I'm insane to complain about a shotgun wedding and a stain on my shirt don't believe everything that you breathe you get a parking violation and a maggot on your sleeve so shave your face with some mace in the dark savin' all your food stamps and burnin' down the trailer park (yo... cut it) Soy un perdedor I'm a loser baby so why don't you kill me? (double-barrel buckshot) Soy un perdedor i'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me? Forces of evil in a bozo nightmare banned all the music with a phony gas chamber 'cuz one's got a weasel and the other's got a flag one's got on the pole shove the other in a bag with the rerun shows and the cocaine nose job the daytime crap with the folksinger slop he hung himself with a guitar string slap the turkey neck and it's hangin' on a pigeon wing you can't write if you can't relate trade the cash for the beef for the body for the hate and my time is a piece of wax fallin' on a termite who's chokin' on the splinters Soy un perdedor I'm a loser baby so why don't you kill me? (get crazy with the cheeze whiz) Soy un perdedor I'm a loser baby so why don't you kill me? (drive-by body pierce) (yo bring it on down) soooooooyy.... (I'm a driver I'm a winner things are gonna change I can feel it) Soy un perdedor I'm a loser baby so why don't you kill me? (I can't believe you) Soy un perdedor I'm a loser baby so why don't you kill me? Soy un perdedor I'm a loser baby so why don't you kill me? [repeat] (Sprechen sie Deutsche, baby) Soy un perdedor I'm a loser baby so why don't you kill me? (Know what I'm sayin'?) ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2. PAY NO MIND (snoozer) (Guitar lowered one full step) This's song two on the album This is the album right here Put on the album D A G D Tonight the city is full of morgues D G D And all the toilets are overflowing D A G D There's shopping malls coming out of the walls D G A E As we walk out among the manure G F E That's why G F E I pay no mind G F E I pay no mind G F D I pay no mind Give the finger to the rock and roll singer As he's dancing upon your paycheck The sales climb high through the garbage pail sky Like a giant dildo crushing the sun That's why I pay no mind I sleep in slime I just got signed So get out your lead-pipe pipe dreams Get out your ten-foot flags The insects are huge and the poison's all been used And the drugs won't kill your day job Honey, that's why I pay no mind I pay no mind I pay no mind (Harmonica solo) That's why I pay no mind [x7] ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 3. FUCKIN WITH MY HEAD (Mountain Dew Rock) slow bend heavy flange --------------- ----------5-3-- -2(4)--/4------ --------------- --------------- --------------- E D A E D A I ain't got no inclination E D A E D A Give away my sweet sensation E D A E D A Sleepin in an old toolshed E D A E D A Scumbag cryin on his pillow Chorus: D A When you wanna be with me G D E D A then we will see who's fuckin with my head (hey hey hey hey) Fuckin' with my head (Hey hey hey hey) Found myself in New Orleans With a scarecrow in my jeans Beat my forehead through the ceiling Drank my coffee with a hubcap (Chorus) (no no no no) Bridge: ----------------------------- ----------------------------- ---1--1--1--1--2(4)-(4)2p0--- ---2--2--2--2--------------2- ---2--2--2--2---------------- -0--------------------------- E Devil's got your pantyhose on his head Oh yeah, and he's robbin' me but all I got's cornbread Well, you turn my body into a crutch And now I'm limpin' all over when I feel your touch Oh yeah Oooh... Oooh... (verse) Float out on my checkout boots Runnin' wild on the bayou Now I'm talkin' on a walkie-talkie Credit card glued to my hand Feels good (Chorus) Hey hey hey hey No no no no Fuckin' with my head Make me feel like an asshole I ain't got no soul I ain't got no soul No no no no No no no no No no no no No no no no +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 4. WHISKEYCLONE, HOTEL CITY 1997 (tune guitar one full step down) Intro: slide guitar follows progression on top two strings throughout ----8-------12---3-----12- -/8-----/12----/3---/12--- --------------------------etc. -------------------------- -------------------------- -------------------------- (C E G E)2x C G A I was born in this hotel C G A Washing dishes in the sink C G A magazines and free soda C G A Trying hard not to think E G D play it on to the dawn E G D everything we've done is wrong E G D I'll be lonesome when I'm gone E G D C play it on to the dawn A C A C (intro chords) She could talk to squirrels coming back from the convolescent home staring at sportscars crying rattlesnake on the ceiling gunpowder on my sleeve I will live here forever with the ocean and the bees (chorus) +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 5. SOUL SUCKIN' JERK Bass tuned down 1/2 step ||---------------------------------- ||---------------------------------- ||---------------------------------- ||-0h3-0h4-0h5~---0h3-0h4-0h5~-/12\- -------------------------------------|| -------------------------------------|| -----------------------------5-3-----|| -0h3-0h4-0h5~---0h3-0h4-0h5~-----5-3-|| ||----------------------------|| ||----------------------------|| ||----------3-----------------|| ||-/12\---5---5--0h3-0h4-0h5~-|| fuzz bass ||--------------------------------------------|| ||-6-6-4--------------------------------------|| ||-------6-4-------5---5------2---2-2---6---6-|| ||-----------7---7---7----4-4---4-----4---4---|| I got a job making money for the man throwing chicken in the bucket with the soda pop can puke green uniform on my back I had to set it on fire in a vat of chicken fat I leaped on the counter like a bird with no hair running through the mini mall in my underwear I got lost downtown couldn't find a ride home sun went down I got frozen to the bone 'til a hooker let me share her fake fur coat as I took a little nap the cops picked up us both I tried to explain I was only trying to get warm I knew I never ever should have burnt my uniform He said too bad. You want to bite the bullet hard son? I didn't have no teeth so I stole his gun and I crawled out the window with my shadow on a spoon dancing on the roof, shooting holes in the moon get busy, get busy, you know it I ain't going to work for no soul-sucking jerk I'm gonna take it all back and I ain't saying jack I ain't going to work for no soul-sucking jerk I'm gonna take it all back and I ain't saying jack Standing right here with a beer in my hand and my mouth is full of sand and I don't understand fourteen days I've been sleeping in the barn better I get a paycheck tattooed on my arm whistling dixie with the dixie cup filled with the barbecue sauce and the dental floss chill big fat fingers pointing into my face telling me to get busy cleaning up this place I got bent like a wet cigarette and she's coming after me with a butterfly net riding on the bloodhound ringing the bell black cat wrapped in the road map to hell pencil on my leg and I'm trying not to beg taking turns baking worms with the bacon and eggs well they got me in a bird cage flapping my jaw like a pretzel in the stars just waiting to fall so give me what I got to get so I can go cause I ain't washing dishes in the ditch no mo(re) I ain't going to work for no soul-sucking jerk I'm gonna take it all back and I ain't saying jack +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 6. TRUCK DRIVEN NEIGHBOR DOWNSTAIRS (tune guitar down 1/2 step) ||------------------------------|| ||------------------------------|| ||------------------------------|| ||-O--O-O-----------------------|| ||--------3--3-3--2--2-2--------|| ||-----------------------1--1-1-|| -----------------------------------------------------0-------- -1--1h3~--3(5)--(5)3-3--3-3-----1-1h3~---6--5--3-3(5)--(5)3-3- -----------------------------0--0-0-0------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------- verse: -------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------1-1-1-------- -2--2-2--0--0-0---0----0-------0h2--2-2--2--2-2--------------- ---------------------3---3-0---0-----------------------0--3-3- -------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------- Acid casualty with a reposessed car Vietnam vet playin air guitar F C G Its just the shit kicking speed takin truck drivin D A G G G A neighbors downstairs Whiskey stained buck toothed back woods creep Grizzly bear motherfucker never goes to sleep (Chorus) (repeat intro) Belly floppin naked in a pool of yellow sweat Screamin jack ass with a wet cigarette (Chorus) (hum verse) Psychotic break down double edged axe Growin hair like a shag rug on a greasy back (Chorus) (instrumental chorus 4x, fade) ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 7. SWEET SUNSHINE (no chords) the sampled bass can be emulated by playing a low e-string while tuning it from low C to D and back Touch me on the inside with a finger full of gravy Wanna get you on the sofa later wanna Shake and Bake me bucket full of blood got you on my mind gonna break my face on the sweet sunshine bucket full of blood got you on my mind gonna break my face on the sweet sunshine I wanna get up off the floor I wanna run to the devil and get me some more I wanna get up off the floor I wanna run to the devil and get me some more barroom full of bread with your horse-whip swinging(?) we are strong and slow and the vomit or the screaming(?) Grab your wine, tell me where you been With the violin time and the moon gettin' thin Grab your wine, take me where you been With the violin time and the moon gettin' thin I wanna climb up on the rug I wanna swing through the city on a wreckin' ball I wanna climb up on the rug I wanna swing through the city on a wreckin' ball Lay on to the dawn and on your plentiful sensation cause the town is full of sound and I kill my last relation got a bucket full of blood got you on my mind gonna break my face on the sweet sunshine got a bucket full of blood got you on my mind gonna break my face on the sweet sunshine I wanna get up off the floor I wanna run to the devil and get me some more I wanna get up off the floor I wanna run to the devil and get me some more ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 8. *****BEERCAN***** bass: ||G-----------------|| ||D-0-0-------------|| ||A-----0-3-3-0-3-0-|| ||D-----------------|| D D7 Alcohol on my hands I got plans to ditch myself and get outside dancing woman throwing plates decapitating their laughing dates swirling chickens caught in flight out of focus much too bright coming down shiny teeth game show suckers trying to bleed but I got a drug and I got the bug and I got something better than love How you like me now pretty good going on feeling strong I quit my job blowing leaves telephone bills up my sleeves choking like a one man dustball freedom rock slimeball talking in code, i went down lit up the shack grab me a beer out of the sack everybodys been over twice painting the walls throwing some dice leaping up into the air getting juiced up beyond belief and they were singing like this Chorus: guitar: D F G E-2--------- B-3--------- G-2--------- D-0---3--5-- A-0---3--5-- D-0---3--5-- D G D why go throwing Frisbees at the sun F G D put my soul between the bun D G D now I wandering now I'm drunk F G D now I'm running like a flaming pig D G D F G D (oh yeah) D G D scraping off the attitude F G D old man eating all my food D G D don't be kind don't be rude F G D just shake your boots and let it all get loose oh yeah my goodness bass solo: ||G--------------------------|| ||D--------------------------|| ||A----3/5--3~----5----------|| ||D--0----------0---0-3-5-3~-|| fluffy clouds jumping rainbows fluffy clouds I'm sad jumping rainbows A soft and snuggly place [repeat] [bass solo] [chorus] outro chords: D F G D G F oh that's cold somebody put a flame-thrower on me oh yeah I like it like that somebody bring me a plate of succotash +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 9. STEAL MY BODY HOME ||--------------------------|| ||----------------------6---|| ||---4--6--------4--6-------|| ||-4-------1--2-------------|| Put me in a hole in the ground With the money and the towel And the woman Annabel Can't complain about the mess Momma killed her only dress Now she's longin' for the pants Watch my troubles all unwind Drinkin' gasoline and wine Catchin chill up the storm On the train they cannot feel Lost my head beneath the wheel Now she steals my body home The trees are fake, the air is dead The birds are stuffed with poison lead And the ground is much too clean And if it's only me who's scared Strap me into the 'lectric chairs Ring the moon like a broken bell When she drags you from the hill Daddy's gonna burn down the still We can watch it from the rooftop Ooh... [etc.] guitar break (C# D# A# B F# B G#)2x Lay into the fryin' pan Now she kisses her own hand With the fiddle on the fire I took a leap into the fog Sleepin' on a hollow log Now I'm coughin' with no mouth You can keep yourself inside But you know you cannot hide When the devil's your only friend outro: F# B G# B over and over with kazoo & sitar, fade ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 10. NITEMARE HIPPY GIRL A# A A# A She took me off my guard with disappointment A# A A# A I got sucked inside of her apartment A# A A# A She's got dried-up flowers, flakey skin A# A A# A C A beaded necklace and a bottle of gin G F C She's a nightmare hippy girl G F C With her skinny fingers fondlin' my world G F C She's a whimsical, tragical beauty G F Am C Self-conscious and a little bit fruity F Am It's a new age let-down in my face She's so spaced out and there ain't no space She's got marijuana on the bathroom tile I'm caught in a vortex, she's changin' my style [Backing vocals:] Ooh, ooh... [etc.] She's a nightmare hippy girl With her skinny fingers fondlin' my world She's a whimsical, tragical beauty Uptight and a little bit snooty Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh [Backing vocals:] Ooh, ooh... [etc.] She's a magical, sparklin' tease She's a rainbow chokin' the breeze Yo, she's busting out onto the scene With nightmare bogus poetry She's a melted avocado on the shelf She's the science of herself She's spazzing out on a cosmic level And she's meditating with the devil She's cooking salad for breakfast She's got tofu the size of Texas She's a witness to her own glory She's a never-ending story She's a frolicking depression She's a self-inflicted obsession She's got a thousand lonely husbands She's playin' footsie in another dimension She's a goddess milking the time for all that it's worth +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 12. MUTHERFUKER fuzz bass ||------------------|| ||------------------|| ||-------0----------|| ||-3-3-4---1-0--0-0-|| ------------------- ------------------- -----0--1--2-2-2-2- -3-4--------------- Chorus ||--------------------------------|| ||--------------------------------|| ||--3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3/9-9-9-9-|| ||--------------------------------|| Bridge ||--------------------|| ||--------------------|| ||------------5--4--3-|| ||--3--4--5-----------|| Oh no You know Homey don't play that game Why should you give a shit G G G# A F E Hey mister asshole G G G# A F E What you dirty asshole G G G# A F E Sittin' in your castle G G# A A# B Judging everyone G G G# A F E You're actin like it's chill G G G# A F E When the deal's gettin' ill G G G# A F E G G# A A# B Why don't you break your brace on my head C F# Everyone's out to get you motherfucker Everyone's out to get you motherfucker Everyone's out to get you motherfucker Everyone's out to get you motherfucker Total paranoia Tryin to annoy ya Everything I do is to try to fuck you up Screwdriver drillin' How served spasm Drunk stove on the situation dude Everyone's out to get you motherfucker Everyone's out to get you motherfucker Everyone's out to get you motherfucker Everyone's out to get you motherfucker (bridge) G G# A D C# C (chorus) +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 12. BLACKHOLE strum open a few times G--2/4-0--2/4-0-0-0--/7-7-7-7-5-4- G--2/4-0--2/4-0-0-0--/7-7-7-7-5-4- G--2/4-0--2/4-0-0-0--/7-7-7-7-5-4- D--------------------------------- G--------------------------------- D--------------------------------- G--2/4-0--2/4-0----/7-7-7-7-9-4- G--2/4-0--2/4-0----/7-7-7-7-9-4- G--2/4-0--2/4-0----/7-7-7-7-9-4- G------------------------------- G------------------------------- D------------------------------- G-/12-12-12-12-11-11-11-11--5-5-5-5-9-9-9-9--4-4-4-4--2-2-0- G-/12-12-12-12-11-11-11-11--5-5-5-5-9-9-9-9--4-4-4-4--2-2-0- G-/12-12-12-12-11-11-11-11--5-5-5-5-9-9-9-9--4-4-4-4--2-2-0- D----------------------------------------------------------- G----------------------------------------------------------- D----------------------------------------------------------- outro: G-----0-0--- G-----0-0--- G-----0-0--- D-2/4/5-5--- G-----0-0--- D-2/4/5-5--- G-0-0----0---0--0- G-0-0----0---0--0- G-0-0----0---0--0- D-5\3--3/9---12\5- G-0-0----0---0--0- D-5\3--3/9---12\5- Windy Windy looking for a better home gotta be gotta be running out of lightbulbs crowded crowded open to a wastecan yellow car yellow car better be inside there (guitar break) wake up wake up nothing's gonna harm you glass wall glass wall standing on the furniture little boy little boy laying on a sleeping bag watching watching through the cracks of his eyelids (guitar break) stranger stranger feeling like a broken stone lost him lost him standing on the orange chairs alphabet alphabet can't afford a telephone black hole black hole nothing's gonna harm you
