The New Pollution
by Beck

Album: Odelay (1996)
Charted: 14 78
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  • She's got cigarette on each arm
    She's got the lily-white cavity crazes
    She's got a carburetor tied to the moon
    Pink eyes looking to the food of the ages

    She's alone in the new pollution
    She's alone in the new pollution

    She's got a hand on a wheel of pain
    She can talk to the mangling strangers
    She can sleep in a fiery bog
    Throwing troubles to the dying embers

    She's alone in the new pollution
    She's alone in the new pollution
    She's alone in the new pollution
    She's alone in the new pollution

    She's got a paradise camouflage
    Like a whip-crack sending me shivers
    She's a boat through a strip-mine ocean
    Riding low on the drunken rivers

    She's alone in the new pollution
    She's alone in the new pollution Writer/s: BECK HANSEN, JOHN ROBERT KING, MICHAEL S. SIMPSON
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 2

  • Caroline from Cincinnati, OhI heard this song for the first time today and immediately thought of the movie Elf when I heard the beginning. Does anyone know if this song's intro is in Elf??? It kinda sounds like it would be, but I can't find it anywhere on the internet.
    I'll comment again if i watch Elf and remember to listen for this song :) it's a good song
  • Cornflakes from Bfe, TnHe sampled the great Joe Thomas for this one; "Venus" is a jazzy seventies track worth checking out.
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