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Beck

Gold Chains

Release date: 29th January 2008

From Odelay (Deluxe Edition)
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About This Track

‘Gold Chains’ by Beck is a 2008 track from ‘Odelay (Deluxe Edition)’. In the verse, the lyrics paint a slick, restless tableau of people trying to look sharp, connect, and form some kind of scene, with the imagery turning on flashing cars, body-adjacent slang, and street-level gestures. There is a sense of friction and mismatch too, as if the speaker cannot get traction, ending on a line that suggests something discarded or gone wrong: “like a broken”.

"Gold Chains" is a track by Beck, from the album Odelay (Deluxe Edition), released 29th January 2008. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 8 articles about Beck.

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Lyrics

Gold Chains

[Verse 1]

People lookin' fresh in their lightning bones

Had the T.B. Blues, I couldn't find no phones

Women driving down in their whipflash rides

Had a wooden nickel finger pointing from all sides

Tryin' to get together into some kind of scene

I shook my spice last Sunday like a broken machine

I got fifty-foot woofers and I'm lonesome tonight

I put my hands in the air like a hazard light

[Chorus]

I'm going back home with my gold chains swinging (Swinging)

I'm going back home with my gold chains swinging (Swinging)

I'm going back home with my gold chains swinging (Swinging)

I'm going back home with my gold chains

[Post-Chorus]

(What's your name?)

(Cheetah and Tammy)

[Verse 2]

Stealin' my water from an empty well

I got birds of life and a chain gang bell

Smokin' cigarettes like an ass in the road

I got debutantes with the elephant's gold

Feast and famines all holding their hands

Filling in the blanks with swollen glands

Draggin' my heels down the vericose veins

Paradise landlords swingin' their chains

[Chorus]

I'm going back home with my gold chains swinging (Swinging)

I'm going back home with my gold chains swinging (Swinging)

I'm going back home with my gold chains swinging (Swinging)

I'm going back home with my gold chains

[Post-Chorus]

(What's your name?)

(Cheetah and Tammy)

(What's your name?)

(Cheetah and Tammy)

[Verse 3]

People lookin' fresh in their lightning bones

Had the T.B. Blues, I couldn't find no phones

Women driving down in their whipflash rides

Had a wooden nickel finger pointing from all sides

Tryin' to get together into some kind of scene

I shook my spice last Sunday like a broken machine

I got fifty-foot woofers and I'm lonesome tonight

I put my hands in the air like a hazard light

[Chorus]

I'm going back home with my gold chains swinging (Swinging)

I'm going back home with my gold chains swinging (Swinging)

I'm going back home with my gold chains

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Track details

From Odelay (Deluxe Edition)

2008
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Odelay (Deluxe Edition)
Odelay (Deluxe Edition)
Beck
Release year
2008
  1. —Gold Chains
  2. —Burro
  3. —Devil Got My Woman
  4. —Erase the Sun
  5. —SA-5
  6. —.000.000
  7. —Where It's At
    5:31
  8. —Computer Rock
  9. —Where It's At (U.N.K.L.E. Remix)
  10. —Brother
  11. —Richard’s Hairpiece (Aphex Twin Remix)
  12. —Devils Haircut
    3:15
  13. —The New Pollution
    3:40
  14. —Clock
  15. —Inferno
  16. —American Wasteland
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