It takes a backwash man to sing a backwash song
Like a frying pan when the fire's gone
Driving my pig while the band's taking pictures in the grass
In my radio smashed
And I like pianos in the evening sun
Dragging my heels 'til my day is done
Saturday night in the captain's clothes
Tender horns blowin' in my jury 'fros

Yo soy un disco quebrado
Yo tengo chicle en el cerebro *

I can't believe my way back when
My Cadillac pants going much to fast
Karaoke weekend at the suicide shack
Community service and I'm still the mack
Shocked my finger, spots on my hand
I been spreading disease all across the land
Beautiful air-conditioned, sitting in the kitchen
Wishing I was living like a hit man

Face down in the guarantees
Jaundiced honchos gettin' busy with me
Because I get down I get down
I get down all the way

Yo soy un disco quebrado
Yo tengo chicle en el cerebro *

Sawdust songs of the plaid bartenders
Western Unions of the country westerns
Silver foxes looking for romance
In the chain smoke Kansas flashdance ass pants
And you got the hotwax residues
You never lose in your razor blade shoes
Stealing pesos out of my brain
Hazard signs down the Alamo lanes
Radar systems piercing the souls
You never get caught with the wax so rotten
All my days I got the grizzly words
Hijacked flavors that I'm flipping like birds

Yo soy un disco quebrado
Yo tengo chicle en el cerebro. *

girl: "who are you?"
man: "I'm the enchanting wizard of rhythm."
girl: "why did you come here?"
man: "I came here to tell you about the rhythms of the universe...."

*chorus translation: "I'm a broken record,
I have bubblegum in my brain"



Lyrics submitted by Ice

Track duration: 03:49


Hotwax song meanings
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    Song Comparison:Good song for the Christmas season. He sings "I get down, I get down, I get down all the way" to the tune of "Jingle Bells".
    Flag yada3on December 06, 2012   Link
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    General Comment:playlist.com search beck hot wax
    Flag superspazzon January 18, 2011   Link
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    General Comment:I really want to find somewhere to listen to this stuff online. I haven't heard it in so long, and i LIKE it.
    Flag invaderzim7695on October 22, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:This song is about playing live music at dive bars.

    Driving my pig while the band's taking pictures in the grass
    and my radio's smashed (driving a tour bus)

    Shocked my finger, spots on my hand (blisters from playing guitar)

    Sawdust songs of the plaid bartenders
    Western Unions of the country westerns
    Silver foxes looking for romance
    In the chain smoke Kansas flashdance ass pants (playing at honky tonks)

    All my days I got the grizzly words
    Hijacked flavors that I'm flipping like birds (Beck uses inventive lyrics and sampling)

    etc..
    Flag swoboon January 25, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:lmfao, this is just plain awesome. "I'm the enchanting wizard of rhythm."
    Flag DJgifon November 03, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:line 4 of the lyrics = "and my radio's smashed" corrected as according to beck.com
    Flag rokridgeon July 12, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:dude, I never understood this song until I read the lyrics just now.

    He's a biker dude who fixes cars. Need no more. xD

    I sang that chorus once around a spanish friend of mine, she giggled so hard.
    Flag The-Felinial-Friendon March 21, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:i think they have the lyrics wrong on the page. hijacked flavors that im flippin like burg's, as in in burgers, makes more sense than birds. he's a lyrical genius. wishin i was livin like a hitman...
    Flag redeye2012on February 08, 2008   Link
  • +1
    General Comment:I love his songs with spanish in them. He's very obviously not a native speaker. He pronounces everything so.... white. Haha.
    Flag pennyroyalon October 26, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:I am spanish- I have been listening to the Odelay album for a while and I never got the spanish line until I read the lyrics right now! He sings it so cutely.
    Flag Catroaron July 19, 2007   Link

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