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In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey
Butane in my veins so I'm out to cut the junkie
With the plastic eyeballs, spray paint the vegetables
Dog food stalls with the beefcake pantyhose
Kill the headlights and put it in neutral
Stock car flamin' with a loser and the cruise control
Baby's in Reno with the vitamin D
Got a couple of couches sleep on the love seat
Someone keeps sayin I'm insane to complain
About a shotgun wedding and a stain on my shirt
Don't believe everything that you breathe
You get a parking violation and a maggot on your sleeve
So shave your face with some mace in the dark
Savin' all your food stamps and burnin' down the trailer park
Yo, cut it.
Soy un perdedor
I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me?
(Double-barrel buckshot)
Soy un perdidor
I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me?
Forces of evil in a bozo nightmare
Banned all the music with a phony gas chamber
'Cause one's got a weasel and the other's got a flag
One's got on the pole shove the other in a bag
With the rerun shows and the cocaine nose job
The daytime crap of a folksinger slob
He hung himself with a guitar string
Slap the turkey neck and it's hangin from a pigeon wing
You can't write if you can't relate
Trade the cash for the beef for the body for the hate
And my time is a piece of wax, fallin' on a termite
That's chokin on the splinters
Soy un perdedor
I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me?
(Get crazy with the Cheeze Whiz)
Soy un perdidor
I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me?
(Drive-by body pierce)
Yo bring it on down
Sooooooy...
(Soy un perdedor I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me?)
(I'm a driver, I'm a winner; things are gonna change, I can feel it.)
Soy un perdidor
I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me?
(I can't believe you)
Soy un perdidor
I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me?
Soy un perdidor
I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me?
(Sprechen sie Deutches, baby)
Soy un perdidor
I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me?
(Know what I'm sayin?)
Butane in my veins so I'm out to cut the junkie
With the plastic eyeballs, spray paint the vegetables
Dog food stalls with the beefcake pantyhose
Kill the headlights and put it in neutral
Stock car flamin' with a loser and the cruise control
Baby's in Reno with the vitamin D
Got a couple of couches sleep on the love seat
Someone keeps sayin I'm insane to complain
About a shotgun wedding and a stain on my shirt
Don't believe everything that you breathe
You get a parking violation and a maggot on your sleeve
So shave your face with some mace in the dark
Savin' all your food stamps and burnin' down the trailer park
Yo, cut it.
Soy un perdedor
I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me?
(Double-barrel buckshot)
Soy un perdidor
I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me?
Forces of evil in a bozo nightmare
Banned all the music with a phony gas chamber
'Cause one's got a weasel and the other's got a flag
One's got on the pole shove the other in a bag
With the rerun shows and the cocaine nose job
The daytime crap of a folksinger slob
He hung himself with a guitar string
Slap the turkey neck and it's hangin from a pigeon wing
You can't write if you can't relate
Trade the cash for the beef for the body for the hate
And my time is a piece of wax, fallin' on a termite
That's chokin on the splinters
Soy un perdedor
I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me?
(Get crazy with the Cheeze Whiz)
Soy un perdidor
I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me?
(Drive-by body pierce)
Yo bring it on down
Sooooooy...
(Soy un perdedor I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me?)
(I'm a driver, I'm a winner; things are gonna change, I can feel it.)
Soy un perdidor
I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me?
(I can't believe you)
Soy un perdidor
I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me?
Soy un perdidor
I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me?
(Sprechen sie Deutches, baby)
Soy un perdidor
I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me?
(Know what I'm sayin?)
| oldfart48 (boulder creek ca.) | Posted: Jun 13, 2013 - 18:06 has anyone seen this thing? are there any real instruments used? just wondering, or you can kill it. | |
| Lazarus (Bethany) | Posted: Jun 13, 2013 - 18:00 Everybody in my churches be dancing... love it... | |
| On_The_Beach (The Blue Planet) | Posted: Mar 29, 2013 - 18:59  | |
| kilroyjoe3 (Farmington, NM) | Posted: Mar 29, 2013 - 18:58 Ditto. Bouncin. Ericocean wrote: Muddy Waters then Beck, perfect. Great song. | |
| pigtail (Southern California) | Posted: Feb 26, 2013 - 08:08 Always loved this semi-anthem.....It defines an entire generation.  | |
| MsJudi (Houston, TX) | Posted: Feb 26, 2013 - 08:07 What a shame that he had to go and ruin a great backbeat by going and singing. | |
| Lazarus (Bethany) | Posted: Feb 07, 2013 - 21:00 d-don wrote: Former Member, you da man. If you ever see Romeo give him my best. Thanks, bro... I be here... hope you are having a great time right this minute... this song is soooo marvelous... love it... | |
| d-don (Oregon) | Posted: Jan 07, 2013 - 12:52 (former member) wrote: There is just no pleasure in life for you other than meanness, loser... love this song... Former Member, you da man. If you ever see Romeo give him my best. | |
| Ericocean (Cumberland, Maryland) | Posted: Nov 24, 2012 - 08:09 Muddy Waters then Beck, perfect. Great song. | |
| max_p | Posted: Oct 05, 2012 - 09:14 romeotuma wrote: There is just no pleasure in life for you other than meanness, loser... love this song... thank you! back to dancin | |
| Stingray | Posted: Oct 05, 2012 - 09:14 SCIENTO-LOSER! | |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Sep 24, 2012 - 21:34 Stingray wrote: If HITLER had sung it - you'd love it too? There is just no pleasure in life for you other than meanness, loser... love this song... | |
| Stingray | Posted: Sep 22, 2012 - 11:20 romeotuma wrote: bingo... love this song... If HITLER had sung it - you'd love it too? | |
| Stingray | Posted: Sep 22, 2012 - 11:19 SCIENTOLOGIST LOSER! | |
| Xstar (Florence, Kentucky) | Posted: Jul 21, 2012 - 13:42 kcar wrote:  Insomnia's a bitch, folks. Apologies. Choking on the Snofrisk. | |
| kcar | Posted: Jun 01, 2012 - 01:31 drewd wrote: Gettin crazy with the Cheeze Whiz !!!!!! Woo Hoo Insomnia's a bitch, folks. Apologies. | |
| jukes1 (Pittsburgh, PA) | Posted: Apr 30, 2012 - 07:53 When I first heard this song I thought it had about as much staying power as Denis Leary's a-hole. Glad Beck proved me wrong. | |
| PA1749 (Room 106) | Posted: Apr 30, 2012 - 07:51 The random absurdity of life. Nothing like this before and nothing like it since. | |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Apr 17, 2012 - 13:06 This song puts a spring in my step this spring day... love it... | |
| shanydawg (Cariari, Costa Rica) | Posted: Apr 17, 2012 - 13:05 dare ya' to hear this and NOT tap your toe | |
| djengs | Posted: Mar 16, 2012 - 21:00 One of the most stupid songs ever written. Love it. | |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Jan 13, 2012 - 08:00 bingo... love this song... | |
| Elroweho (Cheesehead in Paradise) | Posted: Dec 12, 2011 - 13:39 It's getting harder and harder for me to hear a song from Beck that I DON"T like! | |
| Tjerome (West Lebanon, NH, USA) | Posted: Dec 12, 2011 - 13:35 Lumpy13 wrote: Is he saying "Drive-by body pierce?" Yep: Soy un perdedor I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me? (Get crazy with the Cheeze Whiz) Soy un perdidor I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me? (Drive-by body pierce) | |
| unclehud (300 feet above the planet) | Posted: Dec 12, 2011 - 13:34 R-RATED COMMENT! Great song. Really. But to nitpick here: if you hung yourself with a guitar string, you'd either be garrotted or perhaps (if you used an Ernie Ball Super Slinky E-string) decapitated. | |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Nov 10, 2011 - 20:36 Everybody in my hotel room loves this song... | |
| takuma (Naha, Okinawa, Japan) | Posted: Oct 10, 2011 - 07:23 Needless to say, this version is much, much better, but I thought the rendition of the song on Glee was very cute. Perfect lyrics for losers. "So why don't you kill me." | |
| AcesUp (Athens, Georgia) | Posted: Oct 10, 2011 - 07:22 Can we make the hour playlist all green? | |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Sep 08, 2011 - 21:00 This song is soooo good for the ears... | |
| andjones (Chapel Hill, NC) | Posted: Sep 08, 2011 - 20:52 Beck classic that I haven't heard in heard in a while. Thank you radio paradise! | |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Aug 08, 2011 - 12:00 This is soooo apropos today... great juxtaposition of absurd images... we danced like bow-legged gypsy muleskinners here in my happy hotel room... | |
| drewd | Posted: Jun 06, 2011 - 11:32 Gettin crazy with the Cheeze Whiz !!!!!! Woo Hoo | |
| 1wolfy (Mission Viejo California) | Posted: Jun 06, 2011 - 11:32 i used to think that this was the butthole surfers | |
| Lumpy13 | Posted: Jun 06, 2011 - 11:32 Is he saying "Drive-by body pierce?" | |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: May 05, 2011 - 21:26 We be dancing and singing along... love it... | |
| socalhol (Seattle) | Posted: Mar 03, 2011 - 18:40 kcar wrote: "I'm a driver. I'm a winner. Things are gonna change soon, I can feel it."
The truth is much smaller and dingier, as is often the case. It's a line lifted from a Very Bad Movie, "Kill The Moonlight." http://www.plexifilm.com/media.php?id=15 Apparently Beck was in a band with the movie's director, and is on the soundtrack. Thanks for the info — I had always thought it was George (and when I hear this song I usually picture Dana Carvey doing his impersonation of George....) | |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Mar 03, 2011 - 18:28 the story of my life... love it... | |
| Bleyfusz | Posted: Jan 31, 2011 - 10:57 Hostia: soy un perdedor! Y he tenido que googlear la letra para descubrirlo. Vaya acento! | |
| sirdroseph (Yes) | Posted: Jan 31, 2011 - 10:56 lophrequa wrote: it's ain't just the lyrics... Becksy owes the Buttholes some money I agree although overall body of work says that Beck is very talented and the Buttholes are meh. | |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Nov 29, 2010 - 11:17 oh yeah... love it... | |
| johnjconn (chicago land) | Posted: Nov 29, 2010 - 11:17 I like Weird Al's version better. Much funnier, give it a listen | |
| ziakut (Chicago, IL) | Posted: Oct 28, 2010 - 19:02 I like Beck, but I like this song less than I used to...which isn't saying too much I suppose. | |
| terranova21 | Posted: May 22, 2010 - 09:32 Bill's on a serious roll! | |
| ziggytrix (Dallas, TX) | Posted: Apr 20, 2010 - 16:12 lophrequa wrote: it's ain't just the lyrics... Becksy owes the Buttholes some money Except this came out in '90 and Electriclarryland (the album Pepper is on) came out in '96... unless there's some older BS song that this sounds remarkably like? Anyway, BS weren't on a major before '91, so if Beck ripped them off, he certainly did pick an obscure band to rip off. | |
| thediceareloaded (Berlin, Germany) | Posted: Mar 20, 2010 - 01:55 Soundtrack of my youth.... | |
| azdcryan (Sunny Arizona) | Posted: Feb 16, 2010 - 11:43 manzanitafire wrote: Saw a great show a few years back that was Beck with a ridiculously talented band of uber art geeks, one of who came out and break-danced in 80's knee-socks and metallic shorts before picking up his instrument. When it came to the point in the show when it was time for Beck to go solo acoustic and do some of the stuff on Sea Change, the band sat down at a table and ate dinner onstage, with the whole thing beamed via video from above. They broke it up by having a jam session at the dinner table with the silverware that led into the second set. The whole thing was abso-freakin-brilliant. the man's a performance artist in the purest sense of the word. he's an installation piece. i remember the first few times i listened to this debut album, cover to cover, in the dank darkness of my DC basement apartment many moons ago. i really and truly believe that this in one of the most important, seminal debut albums of the last two decades...so completely raw and unrestrained...and oh how he has evolved through the balance of his work to date...one of the most engagingly diverse catalogs that i can readily think of. a real and true gem, this guy. | |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Feb 16, 2010 - 11:42 fantastic song... remember it well... one of those great ones from the 1990s... love it... | |
| 1wolfy (Mission Viejo California) | Posted: Dec 15, 2009 - 16:01  lophrequa wrote:it's ain't just the lyrics... Becksy owes the Buttholes some money | |
| On_The_Beach (Vancouver BC, Bud) | Posted: Nov 14, 2009 - 12:12 lophrequa wrote: ... Becksy owes the Buttholes some money From the "sentences that have never been spoken before" file. | |
| HazzeSwede (Vinyl Land) | Posted: Nov 14, 2009 - 06:29 If he just could rap with a tiny bit of melody ,,,,#5 |