Hotwax
by Beck

Album: Odelay (1996)
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  • It takes a backwash man to sing a backwash song
    Like a frying pan when the fire's gone
    Driving my pig while the bear's taking pictures in the grass
    In my radio smashed

    And I like pianos in the evening sun
    Dragging my heals 'til my day is done
    Saturday night in the Captain's clothes
    Tin horns blowing with my jury 'phros

    Yo soy un disco cabrado
    Yo tengo chicle en cerabo

    I can't believe my way back when
    My Cadillac pants going much to fast
    Karaoke weekend at the suicide shack
    Community service and I'm still the mack

    Shocked my finger spicing my hand
    I been spreading disease all across the land
    Beautiful air-conditioned sitting in the kitchen

    Wishing I was living like a hit man
    Face down in the guarantees
    Jaundiced marshal's getting busy with ease
    Because I get down I get down
    I get down all the way

    Yo soy un disco cabrado
    Yo tengo chicle en cerabo

    Sawdust songs of the plaid bartenders
    Western Unions of the country westerns
    Silver foxes looking for romance
    In the chain smoke Kansas flash dance ass pants

    And you got the hot wax residues
    You never lose in your razor blade shoes
    Stealing pesos out of my brain
    Hazard signs down the Alamo lanes

    Radar systems using the souls
    You never get caught with the wax so rotten
    All my days I got the grizzly worms
    Hijacked flavors that I'm flipping like birds

    Yo soy un disco cabrado
    Yo tengo chicle en cerabo

    Who are you
    I'm the enchanting wizard of rhythm
    Why did you come here?
    I came here to tell you about the rhythms of the universe Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.,
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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  • Cornflakes from Bfe, TnSamples both "Song for Aretha" by Pretty Purdie, and "Up on the Hill" by Monk Higgins & the Specialties.
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