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“Oh Lord, won’t you buy me
A Mercedes Benz
My friends all drive Porsches
I must make amends”
Strange Apparition is a sort of sequel to or meditation on Janis Joplin’s classic “Mercedes Benz”, with an extremely bleak outlook on the contradictions of idealism and consumerism in the music industry. B...
[Verse 1]
Lord, please don't forsake me
In my Mercedes Benz
All the riches and the ruins
Now we all know how that story ends
[Chorus 1]
Strange apparition
Haunting my brain
Standing on the last legs
Of a dream that walked away
[Verse 2]
When the lord rings my front door
And asks me what I got to show
Besides the dust in my pockets
And the things that just eat away my soul
[Chorus 2]
Strange apparition
Haunting my brain
There's some permissions
Of a dream that got cremated
[Verse 3]
The least I had to lose from
Is the most I seem to care
Anything should make you happy
Nothing could make you scared
[Outro]
We'll be on the shoreline
When that heavy ship goes down
Did you think that you were lucky?
You should see yourself now
Strange Apparition was written by Beck.
Strange Apparition was produced by Nigel Godrich.
Beck released Strange Apparition on Tue Oct 03 2006.