Lyrics for Loser as interpreted by Ice

Loser Lyrics
In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey
butane in my veins and I'm out to cut the junkie
with the plastic eyeballs, spray-paint the vegetables
dog food stalls with the beefcake pantyhose
kill the headlights and put it in neutral
stock car flamin' with a loser and the cruise control
baby's in Reno with the vitamin D
got a couple of couches, sleep on the love-seat
someone came in sayin' I'm insane to complain
about a shotgun wedding and a stain on my shirt
don't believe everything that you breathe
you get a parking violation and a maggot on your sleeve
so shave your face with some mace in the dark
savin' all your food stamps and burnin' down the trailer park

(yo. Cut it.)

Soy un perdedor
I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me?

(double-barrel buckshy)

Soy un perdedor
I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me?

Forces of evil on a bozo nightmare
ban all the music with a phony gas chamber
'cuz one's got a weasel and the other's got a flag
one's on the pole, shove the other in a bag
with the rerun shows and the cocaine nose-job
the daytime crap of the folksinger slob
he hung himself with a guitar string
a slab of turkey-neck and it's hangin' from a pigeon wing
you can't write if you can't relate
trade the cash for the beef for the body for the hate
and my time is a piece of wax fallin' on a termite
that's chokin' on the splinters

Soy un perdedor
I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me?
(get crazy with the cheeze whiz)
Soy un perdedor
I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me?
(drive-by body-pierce)
(yo bring it on down)
soooooooyy....
(chorus backwards)
(I'm a driver, I'm the winner; things are gonna change I can feel it)

Soy un perdedor
I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me?
(I can't believe you)
Soy un perdedor
I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me?
Soy un perdedor
I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me?
[repeat]
(Sprechen sie Deutches, baby)
Soy un perdedor
I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me?
(Know what I'm sayin'?)

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ArchimedesTheOwl
02-17-2010

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and why did he say "Speak German" then just... not speak german

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ArchimedesTheOwl
02-17-2010

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to quote Jace from city of Bones, "It sounds like he ate a dicktionsary and startind puking it up"... I think, I'm quoting from memory

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Arachidamia
02-10-2010

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I agree with OliveTree. This line speaks volumes:

Cuz ones got a weasel and the others got a flag

A weasel being regarded as a person who is sneaky or treacherous. The flag could be refering to a symbol or emblem but in keeping with the animal reference here a flag can also reference a distinctively shaped marked tail as of a deer or a dog.

(yo bring it on down)

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Foolish27
02-10-2010

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I heard once that there were missing lyrics:

Ring bologna basement and a bottle of cat food
Tissue-headed sympathizers in a heavy-leaded jail
Putting moody music notes to the purple striped walls
Headed Jersey-way turnpike
Stomping heavy to the shoe

Anyone else hear this?

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OliveTree327
11-29-2009

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Actual reason for him writing this song was that the record label was going to cut him and gave him one hour to write a hit. He was mad but didn't really care so he ranted on the jerks in the record company and how he's not gonna change for them, they came in after the hour was up and that's when he got the chorus, "So open the door, I'm a loser, baby, so why don't you kill me?" and killing him as in cutting the label.

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time4nothing
11-26-2009

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"look at me. my songs make no sense because nothing around me does."

this is how i hear the song

also he's said that the chorus is sincere, it's really about sitting around doing nothing

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ShakeyFan2
11-13-2009

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look at me. my songs make no sense because nothing around me does.
that's what loser is about.
an embrace of truth in absurdity.

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Voodemar
11-02-2009

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I think it would have been a drug session with friends. They spend a good time together in front of TV, taking drugs (maybe LSD, maybe maryjane, maybe other stuff), talking, laughing, everything is recorded, later on you listen the tape and choose "the best fragments" of own statements of the trip, mixes it up and you've got the lyrics for "Loser", chorus would have been the only aware concept just before recording the song ;)

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ImNeilYoung
09-13-2009

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III is stupid as hell. If you can't speak Spanish don't make yourself look stupid.

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Mikeofreak
05-06-2009

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Really, I just think Beck is saying, in his own twisted way, that he's a social outcast and that if it annoys people so much, then why don't they get rid of him, naming the most extreme manner possible as an injection of some dark humor.

Beck wrote this in 1992 when he was homeless and working a mimimum wage job. Supposedly, when he was rapping over the guitar loop, he was trying to emulate Chuck D of Public Enemy, and after listening to the results, was incredibly embarrassed. He didn't even want to release it until Bong Load, the indie label he was on, convinced him to do so. And from there, the Beck Hansen we all know and love emerged.

Funny enough, I knew the first line in the chorus was Spanish, but I heard the last word as "permedo", and when I asked my dad (who knows Spanish well enough) what it meant, he had no idea until I played the song for him, to which he responded, "The word is actually 'perdedor', which is Spanish for 'loser'. He's just saying the second line of the chorus in Spanish."

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AlexKool69
05-04-2009

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lol need my "Becktionary" for this one =)

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AlexKool69
05-04-2009

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sounds like he is high

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trandojedi
04-21-2009

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i think of it like as it's ok not to be a "success" and shit and ok to be a slacker... like he's saying he accepts he is was some ppl term a "loser" then he's like wat u gonna do about it? kill me lol? if ppl start doing that i'm fucked :P

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rufustfirefly
03-15-2009

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"saving up your foodstamps, burning down the trailer park"

Perfect.

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xerica2011
02-25-2009

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i think that the song is just saying that he's a loser and he's just proving it.

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andyamazing
01-15-2009

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I always throught it was "Sword of the matador, I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me"

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JTHMBirdGuy777
12-15-2008

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This song is really just about being an outcast or a loser. Interperetation as follows: In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey=I am different from everyone else, butane in my veins and I'm out to cut the junkie=I've been doing drugs and I want to kill my supplier, with the plastic eyeballs, spray-paint the vegetables=I'll make some friends out of vegetables, dog food stalls with the beefcake pantyhose=possibly a drug experience, kill the headlights and put it in neutral=I'll drive my car dangeously, stock car flamin' with a loser and the cruise control=I've crashed my car and destroyed another one, baby's in Reno with the vitamin D=My girlfriend is in Reno a better man, got a couple of couches, sleep on the love-seat=I sleep on couches instead of a bed, someone came in sayin' I'm insane to complain about a shotgun wedding and a stain on my shirt=People say I shouldn't complain about things that aren't controllable or very minor, don't believe everything that you breathe=Think before you do things, you get a parking violation and a maggot on your sleeve=You get what you deserve for doing stupid things, so shave your face with some mace in the dark savin' all your food stamps and burnin' down the trailer park=Fine, keep doing dumb things and see if I care, Soy un perdedor
I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me=I'm a loser, so put me out of my misery, Forces of evil on a bozo nightmare=You're wasting your time getting scared over something stupid, ban all the music with a phony gas chamber=You seem to do tough things but you really don't, 'cuz one's got a weasel and the other's got a flag=One's attacking and one's surrendering, one's on the pole, shove the other in a bag=One beat the other, with the rerun shows and the cocaine nose-job=you're numbing yourself in every way, the daytime crap of the folksinger slob=That's what is on TV, he hung himself with a guitar string=He killed himself, a slab of turkey-neck and it's hangin' from a pigeon wing=He's a turkey and the ceiling is a pigeon wing, you can't write if you can't relate=Don't write things when you're on drugs, trade the cash for the beef for the body for the hate=When you buy something you get good things and bad things, and my time is a piece of wax fallin' on a termite that's chokin' on the splinters=I'm killing myself by working too hard and what I've done in the past is coming back to bite me. Thank you for your time.





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PagglesWhitman
07-13-2008

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These lines may be tapping into the philosophcal sence of perception in relation to realism. - Descartes and others....

"and my time is a piece of wax fallin' on a termite that's chokin' on the splinters"

Just a hunch,
Paggz

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sgtpotter
07-04-2008

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i heard Beck was in the studio trying to rap but he found that he was terrible at it and it was then that he came up with the line: "I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me?"

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light_bulb101
06-03-2008

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probs about nothing... but the first verse screams vegas

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nat leehunni4667
04-28-2008

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the meaning of life right here.

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passive_aggression
04-18-2008

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definitely about Kurt Cobain. You reach loser status when you date something like courtney love... and i don't blame for blowing his head off with a double-barrel buckshot, anyone in their left mind would have done the same. what a fucking tool. lol.

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simo2332
04-14-2008

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and i agree that beck has gone a bit lame, i realy dont like his new dance stuff.
im not sure i could call him a sellout after he made mtv make mi wanna smoke crack but i was watching mtv ( i know:( ) and his new song was on it
sooo disapointed.

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simo2332
04-14-2008

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*sighs*
i cant belive so many people think this song is just random sentences that rhyme -_-.
"with the rerun shows and the cocaine nose-job
the daytime crap of the folksinger slob
he hung himself with a guitar string
a slab of turkey-neck and it's hangin' from a pigeon wing"
this song is plainly talking about trailer trash, just us normal people who are here for a bit, wasting away then die and are forgotten. how we see are selves as important when in reality were just animals, how are goverment lies to us "I'm a driver, I'm the winner; things are gonna change I can feel it" and how there the only ones with a life. how nothing realy ever gets better and how dreams never come true, instead things are just the normal ****.
so on a whole i think this song is about beck coming to the realty of him being another no-one.
but then again hes a rockstar (bas*ed) so there is hope =D
p.s i liked some the comment about the militery an stuff

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jake16m1
03-14-2008

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Youve Got It All Wrong. IT Has Meaning, Were Just Too Close Minded To Get It. Obviously Hes Talking About Loser. And Situations Where People Or Things Should Be Known As Losers. And Its Full Of Contradictions, Just Like The Fact That He Says "termite
that's chokin' on the splinters" Its About How People And Things Can Be Losers.

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