The New Pollution / Odelay 1996

She's got cigarette on each arm
She's got the lily-white cavity crazes
She's got a carburator tied to the moon
Pink eyes looking to the food of the ages

She's alone in the new pollution
She's alone in the new pollution

She's got a hand on a wheel of pain
She can talk to the mangling strangers
She can sleep in a fiery bog
Throwing troubles to the dying embers

She's alone in the new pollution
She's alone in the new pollution
She's alone in the new pollution
She's alone in the new pollution

She's got a paradise camoflauge
Like a whip-crack sending me shivers
She's the boat in a strip mine ocean
Riding low on the drunken rivers

She's alone in the new pollution
She's alone in the new pollution

O Maria / Mutations 1998

O Maria

there is no one; nothing to see
the night is useless and so are we
cause everybody knows the fabric of folly
is fallin apart at the seams

and I've been lookin for a good time
but the pleasures are seldom and few

there's no whiskey; there's no wine
just the concrete and a worried mind
cause everybody knows death creeps in slow
til you feel safe in his arms...

and I've been lookin for a new friend
and I don't care if he's decrepit and gray

la la la la la...

o maria, haven't you known
been so careless all on your own
cause everybody knows the circus is closed
and the animals have gone wild

and I've been looking for my shadow
but this place is so bright and so clean

there is no one; nothing to see
the night is useless and so are we
cause everybody knows the fabric of folly
is fallin apart at the seams

and I've been lookin for a good time
but the pleasures are seldom and few

la la la la la laaaa

One Foot in the Grave / Stereopathetic Soul Manure 1994

There's a dead hobo on the patio
And an old barbed wire on the funeral fire
Well, you roll out the carpet and it better be red
And it better be long as the troubles in my head
Gonna be livin' one foot in the grave

Well, I was sittin' at home, cookin' up a steak
Satan came down, dressed like a snake
Well, he called my name as I turned up the flames
And then I realized I was out of mayonnaise
Well, you be livin' one foot in the grave

Yeah, don't go throwin' no coupons on my grave
Don't go carvin' no happy face on my tombstone

Woo!
Woo!

One of These Days / Nobody's Fault But My Own CD single


One of these days
I hope it's soon
I'll see you smilin'
the way you do

walkin' on splinters
somewhere unknown
its getting better
that much I know

one of these days
I'm gonna love you on my mind
one of these days
I'm gonna let the world go by

sha la la
sha la la
sha la la la
sha la la

cardboard faces
there's nowhere to look
one in a million
that's how long it took

up on a bridge
nowhere to go
empty and cold
burning a light bulb

one of these days
I'm gonna love you on my mind
one of these days
I'm gonna let the world go by

one of these days
one of these days....

Outcome / One foot in the Grave 1994

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)

bright cops and cheerleaders
eyebrows painted on their heads
a mouthfull of rotting cavities
drinking coca-cola in the street

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)

shot in the leg
shot in the leg
my leg is a bone
nobody home
my hand is a wire
the skies are fire
the drums are beating
pistols and jeans
left for dead
left for dead
left for dead
dead as a fly

Ozzy / Stereopathetic Soul Manure 1994

Ozzy Ozzy Ozzy Ozzy
Ozzy Ozzy Ozzy Ozzy Ozzy
Ozzy Ozzy Ozzy...(can I get a little echo on this?)
Ozzy Ozzy Ozzy Ozzy Ozzy

What does it mean?
The fire is green
The demons just came through the window

Ozzy Ozzy Ozzy Ozzy
Ozzy Ozzy Ozzy Ozzy
Ozzy Ozzy Ozzy Ozzy Ozzy
Ozzy Ozzy Ozzy Ozzy Ozzy

Big-league man
The future looks dim
Using [???] forever

Ozzy Ozzy Ozzy
Ozzy!  You're the man!
How can I grasp you power?
I'm sittin' here lookin' at this keychain
And you...uh, there's mascara bleeding out of your eyes
The microphone is in flames
And there's a giant chicken claw above your head

Ozzy Ozzy Ozzy Ozzy Ozzy
Ozzy Ozzy Ozzy Ozzy Ozzy Ozzy Ozzy Ozzy

Painted Eyelids / One Foot in the Grave 1994

I wake up and look upon your painted eyelids
the world is your oyster
and the trashbags are your kids
the ceiling is invisible
there's a bird sinkin' through the sky
and every hour that passes
is teachin me how to cry
cuz 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 what state I'm in
and the river is on fire
there's chemicals in the breeze
and all the roads are blocked off
cuz they're just too hard to see
so cancel my appointments
and set up a whole new show
cuz 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
because 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

Pay No Mind / Mellow Gold 1994; Pay No Mind single 1994

(this is song two on the album
this is the album right here
burn the album)

tonight the city is full of morgues   
and all the toilets are overflowing
there's shopping malls coming out of the walls
as we walk out among the manure

that's why   
I pay no mind     
I pay no mind
I pay no mind

give the finger to the rock 'n' 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
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

that's why
i pay no mind [x7]
(note: on the vinyl version of "Pay No Mind" the lead-in is simply Beck counting. And there's an extra verse which goes:


Somebody burned down the picnic
Someone kissed their own ass by mistake
The cliches are turning into people
With the greeting cards glued to their face

Pay No Mind (version 2) / Modern Rock Live (radio 1996)


tonight the city is full of morgues
and all the toilets are overflowing
there's shopping malls ripping out from the walls
as they walk out from the manure
that's why
I pay no mind
I pay no mind
I pay no mind

so give the finger to the folksinger
as he's....uh...y'know, doing his thing
on the radio
sales ride low thru the garbage-pail glow
the radio ghetto-blasting sun
that's why
I pay no mind
I pay no mind
I pay no mind

so get out your lead-pipe pipe dreams
and get out your ten-foot flags
the insects are huge
the poison's all been used
the poison's all been used
that's why
I pay no mind
I pay no mind
I pay no mind

Peaches & Cream / Midnite Vultures 1999

Don't tell your right hand baby
What your left hand do
You know those road check girls
Will make your brown breath blue

Peaches and Cream
You make a garbage man scream
Such a dangerous dream
Peaches and Cream….

You look good in that sweater
And that aluminum crutch
I'm gonna let you down easy
I've got a delicate touch

Peaches and Cream
You make a garbage man scream
Come on girl it's a dream

You're a torn out page
>From a best selling book
Your home girl's on the line
But your daddy's off the hook
Where do we go now?

Give those pious soldiers
Another lollipop
Cause we're on the good ship
Menage et tois
Peaches and Cream
You make a garbage man scream
Such a delicate thing

Keep your lamplight trimmed and burning