Twenty Questions

Beastie Boys & Miho Hatori * Track #34 On Beastie Boys Anthology: The Sounds of Science

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Album Beastie Boys Anthology: The Sounds of Science

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Beastie Boys

1999

Twenty Questions by Beastie Boys (Ft. Miho Hatori)

Performed by

Beastie BoysMiho Hatori

Produced by

Mario Caldato Jr.

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Previously unreleased, “20 Questions” first appeared as #13, D2 on Beastie Boys Anthology: The Sounds of Science, released 11.23.1999. It’s a duet between Adam “MCA” Yauch and Miho Hatori of Cibo Matto.

While we were working on Hello Nasty I was listening to a lot of bossanova. Mario [Caldato] i...

Twenty Questions Annotated

Is the cup half empty?
Or is the cup half full?
Does the sun rise at dawn?
Or does the earth just spin along?
Or is it all perspective?
On how we see the world?
How many countless life forms
Are on a little ball that twirls?

Are we intrinsically separate beings?
Or could we possibly be parts of the same thing?
Water feeds the plants and
The sunshine makes them grow
So how can anyone be an island on their own?

Does life life make me happy?
Or does it bring me down?
Do I have what I need?
Or do I just want what's around?
Am (am) I (I) seeing truth?
Or do I just see wool?
Well is the cup (cup) half (half) empty?
Or is the cup half full?