Heartland Feeling Lyrics - Soundtrack Exclusives & Rarities - Beck

I'm totally fucked up. I can barely speak. I'm totally fucked up. 

They gave me so many drugs. But, uh... I'm gonna be here... Alright, 

what we're talkin about here is... is kind of a... 

it's a heartland feeling... like, uh, Mellencamp, you 

know, kind of a Mellen feeling. 

Ok, what you gotta get together is a... some... a heartland folk singer. 

Uh, we're gonna need a real quick... uh, John Cougar Mellencamp, 

Bruce Spingsteen, Bob Seger... that type of feeling. A Mellen feeling. 

You know, real, uh, powerful, approving music, uh... of a heartland quality, 

uh, just powerful straight-forward music. And if you can't get just 

the right type of feeling, find someone who will pass and change them. 

Old man johnson got his head in his hand 

Makin' his way across state in a fiddlin' band 

With hair all down in his eyes 

And the microphone all covered with flies 

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When he gets done playin', goes back to his room 

Climbs in the bed in his cowboy boots 

And he picks up a magazine, turns on the TV 

Lights a cigar as he's fallin' asleep 

Well, he's only a person 

Who doesn't know shit 

Yeah, nothin' happenin' 

That's about it 

Yeah 

Well little Rosanna came from Texarkana 

Had fourteen dollars wrapped in a bandana 

Came into town not lookin for much 

Well she found a hound dog and she named him Dutch 

She got a job at the arcade takin' quarters 

But she was never too good at takin' orders 

So one night she stopped givin' out change 

She kicked the boss in the shin and unplugged the games 

Photos 

She's only a person 

Who doesn't know shit 

Nothin' happenin' 

That's about it 

Ooh 

Yeah, yeah, yeah 

Sam got canned at the cannery 

He punched out the clock that night 

His knuckle was bleeding as he walked home 

He was cold and he had a headache 

Well his wife was cookin canned beans 

He took out all the money out of his jeans 

And he set it on fire in the kitchen sink 

As his wife handed him a drink 

He was only a person 

Who didn't know shit 

Nothin' happenin' 

That's about it 

Uh yeah 

Ooh 

Smiler was lookin' for handouts 

Sleepin' in an abandoned lighthouse 

Down at the mini-mall shakin' his hat 

Washin' windows with his bare hand 

He found a sports car with the keys 

In the ignition, it just seemed so easy 

He took a joyride, drove it into a hedge 

Came out with the steering wheel wrapped around his head 

Well he's only a person 

Who doesn't know shit 

Nothin' happenin' 

That's about it 

Ooh yeah 

Well, Janie was born in a small town 

Everybody just standin' around 

They had bingo games and the raffle 

Everybody chewin tobacco 

Well, she grew up kinda restless 

All her boyfriends wanted to be dentists 

Well, she got a job at the truck stop 

And she got old fast and never did what she wanted 

She's only a person 

Who doesn't know shit 

Nothin' happenin' 

That's about it 

Yeah, yeah, yeah 

Oh yeah 

Yeah, yeah, yeah 

Yeah, yeah, yeah 

Yeah, yeah, yeah