I got a job making money for the man
Throwing chicken in the bucket with the
Soda pop can
Puke green uniform on my back
I had to set it on fire in a vat of chicken fat
I leaped on the counter like a bird with no hair
Running through the mini mall in my underwear
I got lost downtown couldn't find a ride home
Sun went down I got frozen to the bone
'Til a hooker let me share her fake fur coat
As I took a little nap the cops picked up us both I tried to explain I
Was only trying to get warm
I knew I never ever should have burnt my uniform
He said 'too bad, better bite the bullet hard son'
I didn't have no teeth so I stole his gun
And I crawled out the window with my shadow on a spoon
Dancing on the roof, shooting holes in the moon
Get busy, get busy, you know it
I ain't gonna work for no soul suckin' jerk
I'm gonna take it all back and I ain't sayin' jack
I ain't gonna work for no soul suckin' jerk
I'm gonna take it all back and I ain't sayin' jack
Standing right here with a beer in my hand
And my mouth is full of sand and I don't understand
Fourteen days I been sleeping in a barn
Better get a paycheck tattooed on my arm
Whistlin Dixie with the Dixie cup filled
With the barbecue sauce and the dental floss chill
Big fat fingers pointing into my face
Telling me to get busy cleaning up this place
I got bent like a wet cigarette
And she's coming after me with a butterfly net
Ridin' on a bloodhound ringing the bell
Black cat wrapped in the road map to hell
Pencil on my leg and I'm trying not to beg
Taking turns bakin' worms with the bacon and eggs
Well they got me in a bird cage flappin' my jaw like a pretzel in the
Stars just waitin' to fall
So give me what I got to get so I can go
Cause I ain't washin' dishes in the ditch no more
And I ain't gonna work for no soul suckin' jerk
I'm gonna take it all back and I ain't sayin jack
And I ain't gonna work for no soul suckin' jerk
I'm gonna take it all back and I ain't sayin jack



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Track duration: 03:56

"Soul Suckin' Jerk" as written by Carl Stephenson, Beck Hansen

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    General Comment:still relevant. wanna quit my job sooooo bad. such a good line:
    "I crawled out the window with my shadow on a spoon
    dancing on the roof, shooting holes in the moon"

    muahahaha! love you beck and your schwaggy sounds.
    Flag subterranean_summeron July 07, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:He quits his crappy fast food job but then has nowhere to go (sleeping in a barn) and takes it all back and he ain't sayin' jack. So he says OK I will work at a crap job just to pay the bills. Cuz he ain't doin' dishes in a ditch no more.
    Flag smartbunnyon December 30, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:What the fuck was that supposed to mean?
    Flag Kiosk_GWon October 22, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:This is hilarious. I love it.
    Flag DJgifon September 26, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:the very end of the song is sick... techno voice. haha
    I hate soul sucking jerks
    Flag acyeahmanon July 24, 2007   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:this is a good song
    I like the version of this on the Loser single better than the album version though
    Flag octopuseyeson May 17, 2006   Link
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    General Comment:This is a Beck classic. All about punching clock for the man just to get by. Seems like alot of beck's early stuff is like that. The whole mellow gold album especially. It just conjures up images of minimum wage jobs, living in run-down apartments, drinking your life away. I like to listen to this stuff when life sucks.
    Flag placeboheadwoundon May 12, 2006   Link
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    General Comment:This is pretty much my theme song. Tried working the 40 hour week and couldn't do it. Can't work for no soul sucking jerk. So I started my own business.....blowing leaves!!! (Landscaping actually.) I'll keep my 15 hour week and the soul sucking jerks can bother someone else.
    Flag Ookieon April 16, 2006   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:^^^^^^^^^^
    lmfao... 'rockn the town like a moldy crouton' . That is going on my screensaver marquee. YEAHHHH
    Flag Angry Saron February 28, 2006   Link
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    General Comment:yeah the version on the Loser EP is awesome, different music and the verses are rearranged. Plus it contains one of Beck's great one-liners "Rockin' The Town Like A Moldy Crouton!!" Freakin' hillarious stuff.
    Flag tomautoon January 11, 2006   Link

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