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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