There's a destination a little up the road
From the habitations and the towns we know
A place we saw the lights turn low
Jig-saw jazz and the get-fresh flow

Pulling out jives and jamboree handouts
Two turntables and a microphone
Bottles and cans and just clap your hands and just clap your hands

Where it's at
I got two turntables and a microphone
Where it's at
I got two turntables and a microphone
Where it's at
I got two turntables and a microphone
Where it's at
I got two turntables and a microphone

Take me home in my elevator bones!
That was a good drum break

Pick yourself up off the side of the road
With your elevator bones and your whip-flash tones
Members only, hyponotizers
Move through the room like ambulance drivers
Shine your shoes with your microphone blues
Hirsute with your parachute fruits
Passing the dutchie from coast to coast
Let the man Gary Wilson rock the most

Where it's at
I got two turntables and a microphone
Where it's at
I got two turntables and a microphone

What about those who swing both ways: AC-DC's

Two turntables and a microphone
Two turntables and a microphone
Two turntables and a microphone
Two turntables and a microphone
Two turntables and a microphone
Two turntables and a microphone

Where it's at
I got two turntables and a microphone
Where it's at
I got two turntables and a microphone

Oh, dear me. Make Out City is a two-horse town
That's beautiful, Dad
Get my microphone

There's a destination a little up the road
From the habitations and the towns we know
A place we saw the lights turn low
Jig-saw jazz and the get-fresh flow
Pulling out jives and jamboree handouts
Two turntables and a microphone
Bottles and cans and just clap your hands and just clap your hands

Where it's at
I got two turntables and a microphone
Where it's at
I got two turntables and a microphone

I got plastic on my mind
Telephone plastic baby


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Where It's At Lyrics as written by John Robert King Beck Hansen

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  • +3
    General Comment

    yeah...you really stuck it to him...got three bucks back from...uh...not him...from a shitty music store. dumbfuck.

    parloron April 15, 2003   Link
  • +1
    General Comment

    Two turntables and a microphone, that would be uh phallic imagery -- right?
    Where it's at... well you decide.

    eokramon April 22, 2004   Link
  • +1
    General Comment

    eokram, I agree. Two turntables and a microphone? I always wondered if that was sexual or not. Where it's at indeed.

    I love the "take me home with my elevator bones" and "shine your shoes with your microphone blues."

    What about those who swing both ways? AC-DC's? haha, sexellent.

    subterranean_summeron June 30, 2004   Link
  • +1
    General Comment

    I like the bender version.

    tommyhaychon October 09, 2004   Link
  • +1
    General Comment

    Beck is what he is. He makes music just for the sake of making it. I bet he doesn't give a shit how many albums he sells. He can do a lot of other things. You know he co-authored a cook book with Julia Child before she died?

    They didn't call him a renaissance man for nothing.

    This song kicks ass.

    Mrs. Nelsonon February 02, 2005   Link
  • 0
    General Comment

    this is def. my favorite beck song...

    Em095on June 07, 2003   Link
  • 0
    General Comment

    Dude, his newer stuff like Seachange is good, just more mellow... Beck is so awesome because of his versatality. I wish they had some Seachange on here to comment about. This song has always been one of my favourite songs, though... I love the lyics... I especially liked the video.

    kaisuteon June 11, 2003   Link
  • 0
    General Comment

    What it is

    ZidaneTribalon June 09, 2004   Link
  • 0
    General Comment

    and what the hells jigsaw jazz?

    tommyhaychon October 21, 2004   Link
  • 0
    General Comment

    still an awesome song, no matter what doesnt make sence about it.

    .:perfect:.on November 03, 2004   Link

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