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Stratosphere by Beck

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Beck

Stratosphere

Release date: 22nd November 2019

From Hyperspace
Track 8
3:57
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'Stratosphere' by Beck is an alternative track from the album 'Hyperspace', released in 2019. The lyrics stage a dizzying, high-altitude predicament, with the speaker moving from disorientation into a kind of defiant reset, as they look down at Earth for comfort and then escalate the situation with a “Strike a match” moment. The refrain returns to the stratosphere as a place with no way out, even as the voice insists on getting back home, year after year.

"Stratosphere" is a track by Beck, from the album Hyperspace, released 22nd November 2019. The track is 3:57 long. It's filed under Alternative. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 8 articles about Beck.

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Lyrics

Stratosphere

Turn me around
Collision course with the sun
Far above the ground
Halfway to oblivion

In the stratosphere
There's nowhere to go from here
In the stratosphere
I'll be back home another year

High as the moon
Earth below to comfort me
Needle to the spoon
Strike a match and let it be

In the stratosphere
There's nowhere to go from here
In the stratosphere
Somewhere I could disappear

In the stratosphere
There's nowhere to go from here
In the stratosphere
Be back home another year

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Track details

From Hyperspace

3:572019
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Hyperspace
Hyperspace
Beck
22nd November 2019
Track number
8
Release year
2019
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    1:37
  2. 2Uneventful Days
    3:17
  3. 3Saw Lightning
    4:01
  4. 4Die Waiting
    4:05
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    Additional Production
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