| Lyrics: | Overkill By: Jimmy Buffett, 1996
(1st Verse) Legal problems gettin' thick and hazy. Look
at the people
gettin' rich and crazy.
Locked up in mansions on the top of a hill. Someone
needs to tell them
'bout Overkill.
(1st Chorus) Overkill, Overkill -- such a
megalo-modern problematic ill.
Climb too fast and shove too hard, you'll be pushin' up the
daisies in the
old boneyard.
(4 bar turnaround) Ahh-ooh-ahh-ooh,
ahh-ooh-ahh-ooh.
(2nd Verse) I went to find the truth in the Himalayas, bundled
up,
half-frozen, munchin' Milky Way-uhs.
Found a shaman in a diaper with a poppy pot. When
I asked if he was cold,
he said "I just think hot."
(2nd Chorus) Overkill, Overkill
-- such a megalo-modern problematic ill.
Climb too fast and shove too hard, you'll be pushin'
up the daisies in some
old boneyard.
(4 bar turnaround) Ahh-ooh-ahh-ooh,
ahh-ooh-ahh-ooh.
(Rap) Out in Hollywood where paper money rolls, they feed their
egos
instead of their souls.
A million here, a million there, a mindless corporate
dance.
Gettin' paid for fuckin' off in the South of France.
They don't do the shows, but
they act like the stars.
They fly around in G-4's and suck on big cigars.
It ain't about
the talent, it ain't about the skill.
It's all about the silly stupid horseshit
deal!
(3rd Chours) Overkill, Overkill -- such a megalo-modern problematic ill.
Climb
too fast and shove too hard, you'll be pushin' up the daisies in the
old
boneyard.
(Instrumental Break)
(3rd Verse) I got no corporate gig, I got no
guru (Wah-ooh). I don't own
oceanfront in Honolulu.
(Wah-ooh) You write the big checks,
but I pay your bills (Wah-ooh). Now
someone's got to tell you 'bout Overkill.
(4th
Chorus) Overkill, Overkill -- such a megalo-modern problematic ill.
Climb too fast and shove
too hard, you'll be pushin' up the daisies in some
old boneyard
(Outro) Overkill,
Overkill -- such a megalo-modern problematic ill.
Climb too fast and shove too hard, you'll be
pushin' up the daisies in some
old boneyard.
(Wah-ooh) Instrumental
outro.
(Transcribed by T.R. Violante from "Banana Wind" jacket |
