Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Beck - Milk & Honey



I'm just going to start off on a completely unrelated note by saying I love ampersands and got really excited when I had to type it for the title of this song.
Anyway Milk & Honey. Great Beck song. It's largely underrated and from my favorite Beck album, Midnight Vultures. I love the chorus in this this song, with the backup vocals singing "Milk and Honey" in a almost Mo-town R&B fashion and the barrage of sci-fi guitar and synth effects.
Try listening to this song on your iPod and walking around. You cant help but feel like your putting your groove strut on.

Don't take your red ribbons off 
You're about to make a fool of yourself 
In the aluminum sunset, drinking from a drain 
I'm a hundred miles behind myself 
Milk and honey pouring down like money 
Make a poor boy wanna run 
Milk and honey, do you wanna love me 
Under the aluminum sun 

Did you hear those war-torn stories 
Where the lifeguards slept in the streets 
In the jungle lands with the cold cola cans 
You'll get the keys to the city for free 
Milk and honey pouring down like money 
Bring a poor boy to his knees 
Milk and honey, now it isn't funny 
Living in a garden of sleaze. 

Well, I can smell the V.D. in the club tonight.
Excuse me, please. Would you tell me how to get to the Soviet embassy?
 

Bangkok athletes in the biosphere 
Arkansas wet dreams, we all disappear 
Kremlin mistress, ring the Buddha chimes 
She slips me ruffies, receding hairlines 
She's all right. . .touching my body 
She's all right. . .on my computer 
She's all right. . .selling me watches 
She's all right. . .ring on my finger 

Milk and honey pouring down like money 
Bring a poor boy to his knees 
Milk and honey, now it isn't funny 
Living in a garden of sleaze 
Milk and, milk and?do you wanna??honey! 
Milk and honey touching my body 

Milk and honey 
Milk and honey 
Milk and honey 
Milk and honey. . .

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