Gamma Ray
by Beck

Album: Modern Guilt (2008)
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  • Trying to hold
    Hold out for now
    With these ice caps
    Melting down
    With the transistor sound
    And my Chevrolet terraplane
    Going round, round, round

    Come a little gamma ray
    Standing in a hurricane
    Your brains are bored
    Like a refugee
    From the houses burning
    And the heat wave's
    Calling your name

    She's got
    On a cactus crown
    With a dot, dot, dot
    On her brow
    And she speaks
    Inside crowd
    With the cavalry
    Turning around

    Hit me like a gamma ray
    Standing in a hurricane
    And I'm pulling
    Out thorns
    Smokestack lightning
    Out my window
    I want to know
    What I've lost today

    Come a little gamma ray
    Standing in a hurricane
    When your body's bored
    Like a refugee
    From the houses burning
    And the backbiters
    Calling your name Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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  • Mike from London, OnThe song is about global warming :)
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