Beck - Broken Drum Lyrics

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I see you there
Your long black hair
Your eyes just stare
Your mind is turning

You know I'll laugh
And I won't take it back
I've seen your eyes I know
What your thinking

And one by one
We'll shoot our guns
We'll have fun
Don't ever doubt it

And when I say
Fare thee well
My only friend
Oh how the days go

Your setting sun
Your broken drum
Your little drugs

I'll never forget you
Never
Forget
You

This song has sad, mystic and beautiful qualities that are hard to describe. Stirs nostalgia and other emotions

I thought this was in Sea Change lol

2019 anyone?

MY FRIEND. MATTHEW. THERE IS NO WAY TO WORD THE WAY IT HURT WHEN YOU LEFT THIS EARTH. IM SO MAD AT YOU FOR LEAVING US HERE. BUT I MISS YOU MORE, CAUSE, I GET IT. I KNOW WHAT ITS LIKE TO HURT. I WAS RIGHT THERE BEHIND YOU. I STILL AM. I'LL SEE YOU AGAIN.

Beck makes the most interesting music i know of.

If not the most interesting, at least the one that bores us the least.

This reminds me of the *good ol' days* back in 2006. Too bad most of society went to shit in 2015

Elliott Smith smells like ketamine.

reminds me of 'Jennifer' by Faust.

Beck, thank you.

I was such an elitist douchebag when I was in high school. I refused to give most current (at the time) music a chance. Nothing could ever compare to the tunes my parents raised me on. Now I’m almost 40, and I’m going back and discovering all the great music I missed. Beck is amazing. Hands down one of the most unique, most talented men that’s ever recorded music. I always heard people say he was a genius, but I only really knew him from the hits he had when I was in high school (loser, where it’s at, etc...). But I’m a believer now. He truly is a prodigy.

Isn´t he?

Isn´t just a happy, tricky coincidence that he was born in 1970, the year Beatles split?
I like thinking about him as the Beatles in one.

Lyrics

I see you there
Long black hair
Your eyes just stare
Your mind is turning

You know I'll laugh
I won't take it back
I've seen your eyes
I know what your thinking

One by one
We'll shoot our guns
We'll have fun
Don't ever doubt it

And when I say
"Fare thee well,
My only friend"
Oh, how the days go
Oh, how the days go

Your setting sun
Your broken drum
Your little drugs

Never forget you
Never forget you
Never forget you

Sounds like a pink floyd song from 1970 that under water piano sound and that david gilmore slide guitar sound

This song is in Earth to echo (the movie) accept its karaoake

sooo BOC remixed THIS song.. I was confused bc the BOC version was the first one I heard.. makes sense now lol especially since BOC never makes songs with lyrics.. this is nice.. I definitely like both versions

I feel you bro...

This song is a world, and I've always loved stepping into it

Maybe one day my best friend will read this, but I love you buddy. Oh how our days go.

Beck,thank you for all the great music that truly matters , such a refreshing change from the garbage that is todays "popular" so called music. Yours makes my soul feel alive

Garbage? Today? You haven´t seen nothing yet.

The tragedy of losing love before their time.

This song was actually about Elliott Smith if I recall.

+Rainy Jane do tell, :)

check out the boards of canada remix :D

@Damon Carnaggio I feel, I just didn't know the original before. So the BoC version was my frame of reference. Hooray for good music!

@Jerry Mores I know for a fact that you blow your dad daily just to get his appreciation since your mom won't kiss you unless a bag is on your hideous face.

Damon Carnaggio that escalated quickly

+Damon Carnaggio Shut up normie without profile picture. You're not allowed to speak. Go back and get ass fuck by your disgrace family name.

literally came here to listen to the original after listening to the remix! big fan of it.

STUNNING.

Rip elliott smith

I googled him after seeing this, thanks for sharing that reference.
I also stumbled onto this:
http://www.whiskeyclone.net/ghost/songinfo.php?songID=523

this reminds me of being really f'd up in my early twenties. i love you beck.

quillber, yep. and one person who was there with me

best song for creepering ex girlfriends on facebook.

there was another directed video for this song on yt, that had a painted guitar with beck's face as its head. but it was taken down and i have no clue why, cant find it now. it was my favorite, should have saved it!

Think that one came with the special edition of the CD, you should still be able to find it. I know that video too.

That sounds like a trip,

Apparently this song is about Elliott Smith.

feels like it could be about syd barrett, although i definitely agree that it's about it elliott.

In mind`s after-mission Teatime in a both mine

BoC remix is amazing. Also, it plays beautifully when reversed. Search for "Beck - Reversed Broken Drum" on Youtube.

Such a sad song. Reminds me of a dear friend who was addicted to heroin. Beautiful melody.

Lindsay Glenn gotta love how lyrics, no matter their shortness, when combined with a good tune can evoke memories or thoughts of someone like that.

best of wishes to your friends family and yourself.

Good for Venting, certainly. Along with Sweet Sunshine or E-Pro

I'd say the ultimate beck bad day song is probably mutherfuker off of mellow gold, that song actually makes me want to punch someone.

i don't know how anyone can say that. i think it is one of the most beautiful reweorks of a song that i have ever heard and beck was amazed by it. you do know it's not supposed to sound like the original. maybe you should go back to it when you're older and judge it on its merits alone.

For Katia. Space-time has been folded in on itself to bring us together again.

That's the golden rule in life, man. I wish more people lived by it.

Dude just... Shut up.

boards of canada remix did make me cry. its an abomination of this perfect track.

Wow what an amazing song!!!

As for 'One Foot In The Grave', 'Asshole' would probably be the most fitting 'bad-day' song

This is one of the many things about the Beck community. 99.9% of them are cool.

Agreed :)

That's true. And I just bought Midnight Vultures and Mutations. Midnight Vultues bad day song might be.... Beautiful Way...? Mutations is by far Nobody's fault but my own.

It should always be, why, starting young is what society prefers? Fuck off, mate.

I say GET THEM ALLLLLL!!!!!!!

Very funky and sexxxy! but, Midnite Vultures was released before Sea Change. 1999, I believe.

Mine happened when I was 20.

R.I.P Elliott Smith

Ok, if you're gonna get any of those, I recommend VultureS :)

I don't have Midnight Vultures, Mutations, or One foot in the grave. So, I don't really know. From what I've heard the entire album is happy and sexy. Makes up for Sea change.

What about Midnite Vultures?

@SKristen
Lonesome tears is my 2nd choice, but alas, I am sentimental. For Lost Cause, I have a drinking game, where you listen to it, and everytime I want to cry you take a shot. By the end of the song, I'm wasted.

Lonesome Tears would be at the top of Sea Change as far as bad day songs go I would think... haha

This is what I heard when I died and was floating in space towards my next destination!

I like it that for every Beck album I have, I have a bad day song.
Mellow Gold- Pay No mind
Odelay- Ramshackle
Sea Change- Lost Cause, but really the entire album is a bad day album
Guero- Broken Drum
The Information- Dark Star
Modern Guilt- Volcano
Whether or not my day is bad, I have a feeling my day will never be as bad as some of Beck's days.

for elliott smith

does anyone remember this amazing music video for this song that was here on youtube. it had a guitar with beck's face painted on the headstock, and his body was painted on as well. he was riding on a bus. did i dream this video up or did i really see it on youtube and can't find it now

@mikes4guiatrfender did she has long black hair?

Check out the boards of canada remix! So good

@NecroSlavery LOL, 98% of the world are then losers you fuck.

@jigglefred cause the ladies can't get off of you right.

@mikes4guiatrfender I've felt love like that once, maby twice. I've looked for it again and again, never to be found though.Restless, sleepless nights have hounted me ever since...
love the song, love beck as a band. i've been a big fan for many years

@jigglefred Dont be a dick

haha ur first kiss was sophmore year?

@sparshopper It is about Elliott, the talk of drugs...never forget you and what not. Beck and him were friends.

this is not the album version the album version from que onda guerro is actually verry soft and has a deep sound

You did a great job on this video!! I love this song...

Work of a genius!

beck is just a little too bad ass

I like this, a lot. Thank you.

Beautiful video.

Wow, I can't believe you made this video yourself, it looks ace. I like the overexposed colours on the scene on the rocks near the sea. Have you ever seen an episode of Red Dwarf called Timeslides? They use a kinda similar idea with the moving photos. I made a video too, search Day Serene, but it ain't no big deal, I haven't got good equipment or anything.

this would be a great slow dance song...

there was a really awesome music video for this song on youtube but its gone now. All I remember is that there was a guitar with the musicians face as the headstock. It's gone now and I am deeply upset.

@mikes4guiatrfender,that is awesome!That sounds really romantic, I love this song :)

@mikes4guiatrfender
you are the luckiest human being on this earth
imagine if it went on to scarecrow though :D

@tattvam4
pretty fuckin hilarious!

@seananderson256
lets be honest, some of the best people in life manage it without drugs though

yeah , whatever

A very well done song!

im not gonna watch the boards version but i love yer description of it

the BOARDS OF CANADA remix of this song will make you cry. It feels like your watching the love of your life lye dying on the ground while its pouring rain in slow-motion.

this song makes you wanna tell all your secrets :P

I absolutely understand you. This song is just outstanding, beyond everything, just sad and great

I don't mean for this to sound morbid, but I could die listening to this song. It's so melodic and peaceful and dreamy. The sweetest of reveries.

this is so weird, i've been listening to a lot of elliott smith music lately and I hadn't heard this song every before but I heard it from a friend today so i decided to look it up because I thought it was absolutely beautiful. and now it's about elliott which makes it even more beautiful.
RIP

I don't get it....

this song made me put a carrot in my butt

u are crazy super retarded u jackass, not only was this released in fucking 2005, but beck would never waste his talent on that rapist

did u kno this was written about Micheal 'the king of pop' Jackson RIP

Merkageblud
No, this was written about Elliott Smith.

RIP elliott smith

I checked out the BoC remix...but i don't like it at all compared to this version....but hey! thats musak for ya.

beck said it was written around the time he wrote sea change, and that he considered the song a link between guero and sea change

can anyone tell me where i can find the video to this song where becks head is painted on a guitar and what not, does anyone know what im talking about?

wonderful song to enjoy when you´re totaly stoned!! i highly recommend that one
but it is also a great song when your "normal" though

already have my friend, haha =]

i love how spacy and dreamy it sounds ...

..elliott

elliot smith..