No Distraction
by Beck

Album: Colors (2017)
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  • Beck told Q magazine about this self-help cry in the face of 21st century digital overload. "Anybody who has a phone or a computer lives with the distractions pulling you this way and that," he explained. "We haven't figured out how to have access to everybody and everything all the time and how it affects us physically and neurologically. Or at least I haven't. My analogy to friends has been that I feel as if somebody has removed the front door of my house, permanently."

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  • Confused from Everywhere And NowhereI love this song and listened to this whole album A LOT. Just heard this song again for the first time in awhile and looked at the lyrics. Am I crazy or did the lyrics used to say “remember the fool” instead of “ I’m a fool”? I could swear the printed lyrics said this at the very least. At least on Apple Music. Either the lyrics were just wrong on iTunes and were since corrected, or I am totally cray cray, or this is another weird Mandela effect… Just want to see if anyone knows. :)
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