Tablature one foot album - Beck

          



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  From: BobaVader@aol.com

  Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1995 10:55:57 -0500

  Subject: One Foot In The Grave Album -- Beck

  

  @Artist: Beck

  @Album: One Foot In The Grave 

  

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  "One Foot In The Grave"  -- Beck     (K Records)

  

  Songs:  He's A Mighty Good Leader / Sleeping Bag / I Get Lonesome / Burnt 

  	Orange Peel / Cyanide Breath Mint / See Water / Ziplock Bag /

  	Hollow Log / Forcefield / Fourteen Rivers Fourteen Floods / 

  	Asshole / I've Seen The Land Beyond / Outcome / Girl Dreams /

  	Painted Eyelids / Atmospheric Conditions

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  @Song: 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

  

  @Song: 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 jsut another crazy scam

  

  @Song: I Get Lonesome

  

  Well there aint nobody left to impress

  and everyone's kissin' their own hands

  its 666 on the kitchen floor

  there aint no fire in the pan

  

  i get lonesome (4x)

  

  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 (4x)

  

  Getting fat on your own fear

  bring that beer over here

  i stomp on the floor

  just to make a sound

  

  i get lonesome (4x)

  

  @Song: Burnt Orange Peel

  

  [I have no idea.  If anyone does, please send them to me.]

  

  @Song: 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

  

  @Song: 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

  no one's gonna miss you

  

  Dry it up on the shoreline

  drinking everything you see

  offering things to the ladies

  [???] animals and trees

  

  climb up into

  no one's gonna miss you

  

  @Song: Ziplock Bag

  

  [Once again, ?????]

  

  @Song: 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 sleepin' on a hollow log

  

  walk till you're restless

  sleep till you're tired

  wake up without thinking

  you're the one that i desired

  

  @Song: Forcefield

  

  [Sam Jayne]                 [Beck]

  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

  

  [Both]

  Don't let it get near you

  don't let it get to close

  

  [Sam]			    [Beck]

  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

  

  [Both]

  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

  

  [Sam]			    [Beck]

  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

  

  [Both]

  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

  

  [Sam]

  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

  

  @Song: 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 [???] 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

  

  @Song: 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

  

  @Song: 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 -|(sung at the

  		     with no eyes -| same time)

  

  >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

  

  @Song: Outcome

  

  Seventeen years in the city

  Static clinging to the ceiling

  

  never did i think it would come to this

  (the..................) 

  (outcome is different than i expected)

  

  never did i think it would come to this

  (the..................) 

  (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

  (the..................) 

  (outcome is different than i expected)

  

  never did i think it would come to this

  (the..................) 

  (outcome is different than i expected)

  

  Shot in the leg

  shot in the leg

  the leg is a bone

  nobody home

  my hand is wired

  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

  

  @Song: 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

  

  @Song: 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

  

  @Song: 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

  

  [????????] (after this i have no idea)

  

  

  Notes:

  

  This lyric sheet isn't official and has many

  mistakes.  So if you know what's wrong, or how

  to fix it, please e-mail me.  

  

  Thanks

  

  BobaVader@aol.com

  

   


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