Beck - Bottle of Blues

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Song Lyrics

I just found me a bottle of blues
Some strange comfort for a soul to soothe
Ain`t it hard, ain`t it hard
To want somebody who doesn`t want you

And I`ve been waiting for a year or a day
Some strange weather must be blowing my way
Cause I got no mind
To go or to stay or be left behind

Holding hands with an impotent dream
In a brothel of fake energy
Put a nickel in a graveyard machine
I get higher and lower
I get higher and lower
Like a tired soldier with nothing to shoot
And nowhere to lose this bottle of blues

Egos drone and pose alone
Like black balloons, all banged and blown
On a backwards river
The infidels shiver in the stench of belief

I tell my momma I`m a hundred years late
I`m over the rails and out of the race
The crippled psalms
Of an age that won`t thaw ringing in my ears

Holding hands with an impotent dream
In a brothel of fake energy
Put a nickel in a graveyard machine
I get higher and lower
I get higher and lower
Like a tired soldier with nothing to shoot
And nowhere to lose this bottle of blues

Well, I just found me a bottle of blues
Some strange comfort for a soul to soothe
Ain`t it hard, ain`t it hard
To want somebody who doesn`t want you

Holding hands with an impotent dream
In a brothel of fake energy
Put a nickel in a graveyard machine
I get higher and lower
I get higher and lower
Like a tired soldier with nothing to shoot
And nowhere to lose this bottle of blues
Bottle of blues

Release History

03 November 1998

Mutations

1. Cold Brains (3:41)
2. Nobody's Fault but My Own (5:02)
3. Lazy Flies (3:43)
4. Canceled Check (3:14)
5. We Live Again (3:04)
6. Tropicalia (3:20)
7. Dead Melodies (2:35)
8. Bottle of Blues (4:55)
9. O Maria (4:00)
10. Sing It Again (4:19)
11. Static (4:17)
12. Diamond Bollocks (6:01)