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Beck

Inferno

Release date: 29th January 2008

From Odelay (Deluxe Edition)
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"Inferno" 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

Inferno

[Verse 1]

Ease yourself on down

And if you're bound and frowned

You better put it on down

'Cause 4 AM, gonna hit it again

Leaving dollar bills on the buffalo hills

[Verse 2]

The moon's eye is frozen shut

These vacant lanes unknown, uncut

Shredded up and sold for seed

Another tribute sent to a backwards breed

Hear those buzzards flap their heaps

Up above where the skies are cheap

For pioneers with chandeliers

Darkened arks in diamond ears

Through those rusty windows

Traffics shoot like venom static addicts

Causing us to fly like sticks

Fumes of flags and endless wicks

[Chorus]

Inferno

Inferno

Inferno

[Verse 3]

Habitrails of garbage pails

I search and strip my stale grails

And when it's time to strike the blues

I gotta let my jive and jack-ass fuse

This pollution is electrocution

Riffs and rags, no resolution

My wagon limps a miser's pace

On borrowed fuels of lice and lace

Hail to the mother man

Can't stand the soul can

Cold sweat, tiger tan

Sold my gold and left this land

Vaccination, cancellation

Tuning in to the two-bit station

Alkaline batteries shot

Summer's all tied in the hangman's knot

[Chorus]

Inferno

Inferno

Inferno

[Post-Chorus]

Inferno

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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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