Satan gave me a taco and it made me really sick. The chicken was all raw and the grease was mighty thick. The rice was all rancid and the beans were so hard. I was getting kinda dizzy eating all the lard. There was aphids on the lettuce and I ate every one and after I was done the salsa melted off my tongue. Pieces of tortilla got stuck in my throat and the stains on my clothes burned a hole through my coat.
My stomach was a’tremblin’ and I broke out in a rash. I was so dry and thirsty and I didn’t have no cash. So I went and found a hose, tore off all my clothes, turned on the water and it shot right up my nose. Some old lady came along and she thought I was a freak so she beat me with her handbag ’til I could hardly speak.
I was lying there naked, my body badly bruised in a pool of my own blood, unconscious and confused. Well the cops came and got me and threw me in their van and I woke up on the ceiling and I couldn’t find my hand.
They took me to the judge, his eyes a’glowin’ red. The courtroom was filled with witches and the dead. Well the sheriff was a hell-hound with fangs and claws. The prisoners were tied up and chained to the walls. The air was getting thick, the smoke was getting thicker. The judge read the verdict, said “Cut off his head!”
Well they placed me on the altar and they raised up the axe. My head was about to explode when I noticed the Marshall stacks. I noticed all the smoke machines, cameras, and the lights. Some guy with a microphone runnin’ around dancin’ in tights and I noticed the crew and the band playin’ down below and I realized I was in a rock video.
So I went and joined the band and I went out on tour and I smoked a lot of heroin and I passed out in manure. I made out with the groupies, started fires backstage, made a lot of money, and I gave it all away.
Well the band got killed so I started a solo career and I won all the awards and I drank all the beer and I opened up the taco stand just to smell the smell. Cookin’ with the devil fryin’ down in hell.
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The lyrics to Satan Gave Me a Taco by Beck have to be some of my favorite lyrics ever. EVER. I love it. I only know one other person who is into this song as much as me and we’ve had several conversations about it over the years and have sung it together on occassion. Everytime I play it for anyone else they’re kind of like ‘uh.. yeh.. ” But I can’t get enough of it. Beck is genius.
8 responses so far ↓
1 Nan // Mar 23, 2004 at 8:32 am
When I read the first couple of sentences I thought YOU ate a bad taco… but then it started to sound “lyricy.” I’ve never heard this song before - I must be missing out.
2 Jason Zada // Mar 23, 2004 at 10:05 am
That is a great song. I like the weird yelling in the background half way through the song.
3 Linus // Mar 23, 2004 at 12:40 pm
I don’t know if Beck is a genius, but this song is, like, totally awesome. Dude. Rilly. I got it on a compilation CD from a friend a few years ago and fell in love with it immediately. Inspired oddity at its best!
4 Winny // Mar 24, 2004 at 6:23 am
Watch out! Before you know it the “Stacy’s mom”-story starts all over again…
5 Arthur // Mar 24, 2004 at 11:32 pm
Like Nan - I thought you had gone to Chicago and met your fate - not a good one. whewwww I felt better when I realized it was a “poem” then, on to Beck. I’ll have to download the song to really hear it.
thanks for the bit of humor and music knowlege or something.
6 Arthur // Mar 24, 2004 at 11:58 pm
That was great. My son told me what the Marshall Stacks are. Thanks, Rachelle.
7 Robert // Aug 6, 2006 at 7:10 pm
I love this song also i like it so much i sing it to my 5 yr old LoL
8 Erick // Sep 25, 2006 at 2:05 pm
This song is great, I recently got Stereopathic Soulmanure and this is the best song on it with Rowboat a close second. I have had this song in my head for the last few days.
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