Black Tambourine

Track 5 on Guero

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Beck has admitted on XFM that this song sounds closest to the raw rock album he has been planning to make for a while now. He called this song a “Bo Diddley / Adam Ant… Read More

Mar. 29, 20051 viewer

Black Tambourine Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Black hearts in effigy
We sing a song that was hated
All dressed in rag and bones
Sharks smell the blood that I'm bleeding
I know there's something wrong
Might take a fire to kill it
Might take a hurricane
Don't know what life that I'm living

[Chorus]
Oh-oh-oh-oh
Black tambourine
Oh-oh-oh-oh
Black tambourine

[Verse 2]
My baby run to me
She lives in broken down buildings
Can't pay the rent again
These spider webs are my home now
And when the sun is down
We'll shake and rattle our bodies
To keep it warm at night
My tambourine is still shaking

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[Chorus]
Oh-oh-oh-oh
Black tambourine
Oh-oh-oh-oh
Black tambourine

[Verse 1]
Black hearts in effigy
We sing a song that was hated
All dressed in rag and bones
Sharks smell the blood that I'm bleeding
I know there's something wrong
Might take a fire to kill it
Might take a hurricane
Don't know what life that I'm livin'

[Chorus]
Black tambourine
Oh-oh-oh-oh
Black tambourine

About

Beck has admitted on XFM that this song sounds closest to the raw rock album he has been planning to make for a while now. He called this song a “Bo Diddley / Adam Ant party”.

Written by Beck Hansen, Dust Brothers and Eugene Blacknell. * Contains a sample of Chapter 14: War Is the Health of the State by Eugene Blacknell & The New Breed.
Was featured in the David Lynch song Inland Empire, and the trailer for the film (500) Days Of Summer.
Was also in the video game Lumines II and Driver: San Francisco
Most notably, the beat is based on Serge Gainsbourg’s Requiem Pour Un Con
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vJvwD3XADc