Static

By Beck

On Mutations

Released on November 3, 1998

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[Verse 1]

It's so easy to laugh at yourself

And all those jokes have already been written

Seems like another vain attempt

To let yourself fall out of the oven


[Chorus 1]

Holy mountains, they look so tired

And it's a perfect day to lock yourself inside


[Verse 2]

Who you fooling' with the fools are right

It's the same thing but it's almost as different

Hard to tell when it pacifies your mind

Leaves you stranded with a broken engine


[Chorus 2]

Lazy desert looks so mangled

Let me drown in a convalescent bliss


[Bridge]

Get up from your bed of rest

Been a long time since you've lived

But the static in your mind

Leaves you hollow and unkind

With a shock electric wave

Turns you on


[Verse 3]

You've been flunked out of the devil's house

Delinquent hygienes are so abrasive

Some distortion that's never been known

On the treadmill you'll be running forever


[Chorus 1]

Holy mountains, they look so tired

And it's a perfect day to lock yourself inside


[Outro]

Be gone

Be gone