“Jack-Ass” is the seventh track and one of the five singles off of Beck’s 1996 album “Odelay”. Beck samples Them’s cover of Bob Dylan’s “It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue”. It also includes a real jackass (a donkey).
[Verse 1]
I've been drifting along
In the same stale shoes
Loose ends tying a noose
In the back of my mind
[Chorus 1]
If you thought that you were making your way
To where the puzzles and pagans lay
I'll put it together
It's a strange invitation
[Verse 2]
When I wake up
Someone will sweep up my lazy bones
And we will
Rise in the cool of the evening
[Chorus 2]
I remember the way that you smiled
When the gravity shackles were wild
And something is vacant
When I think it's all beginning
[Verse 3]
I've been drifting along
In the same stale shoes
Loose ends tying a noose
In the back of my mind
[Chorus 1]
If you thought that you were making your way
To where the puzzles and pagans lay
I'll put it together
It's a strange invitation
Jack-Ass was written by E.Z. Mike & King Gizmo & Beck.
Jack-Ass was produced by Beck & Dust Brothers.