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Nigel Godrich mixes his first album of new material since 'Hyperspace'.
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'Emergency Exit' by Beck is an alternative track from the album 'Guero' (2005). The lyrics cast a vivid, off-kilter picture of someone feeling trapped by debt and mental clutter, with images of distance, decay, and an approaching sign. Over repetitive shouts, the verse turns from defiance into a kind of grim practicality, closing on the sense that a way out is finally arriving, even if the surroundings suggest doom. The repeated insistence of “Emergency Exit” frames the song as a plea for escape, less about rescue than about making it out alive.
"Emergency Exit" is a track by Beck, from the album Guero, released 2005. The track is 4:02 long. It's filed under Alternative. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 11 articles about Beck.
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Hey, hey, hey, hey... Fourteen miles away from a landfill grave, Never pawned my watch and chain to the landlord living inside my head. Never paid my rent 'til the lights went dead and I saw my sign coming up the road. Dead ditch waitin' for to bury my load on the avenues in the plain of day, Threw a Roosevelt dime in a bucket of rain. Oh, oh, oh, oh... Oh, oh, oh, oh... Now hold your hand up to the plow, work the dirt 'til the sun goes down. What's left of death is more than fear, let dust be dust and the good Lord near. It's a little too much to ask of faith, a little too late to wait for fate, So tell the angels what you've seen, scarecrow's shadow on the Nazarene. Oh, oh, oh, oh... Oh, oh, oh, oh... Kindness will find you when darkness is falling 'round your bend. Kindness will follow, children will wander 'til the end.
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