Lyrics:People Gettin' Busy [Version (a)]:
Walk to the bridge, stand like a fridge
Empty and cold, burnin' a light bulb
I'm sad.
Right now get down, right now people gettin' busy
Right now get down, right now people gettin' busy
Ah yeah... people gettin' so busy
The man gave me a ticket when I tried to kick it
Leanin' on a biscuit, kissin' the finger
Car alarm is going, saxophone is blowing
Money I've been throwing at the dancing children
Everything's so phony, if you want to phone me
You can be my homey, give me some sympathy
Right now get down
The Song:"People Gettin' Busy" begins with a couple of song samples. The first is a brief snippet of a fairly catchy folk tune. Beck strums his guitar, plays harmonica, and it's in his early 18-year-old
Banjo Story voice. Unfortunately, it's only two lines. The song seems to be about a refrigerator -- "empty and cold, burnin' a light bulb." Interestingly, the lines of the song seem to have reappeared out of obscurity
many years later on the
Mutations b-side, "
One of These Days": "Up on the bridge, nowhere to go / Empty and cold, burnin' a light bulb."
The track next has an even shorter blip of Beck announcing in Vader voice "I'm sad," before finally getting busy with "People Gettin' Busy." A sparse and catchy tune, this song is suprisingly memorable despite also feeling a bit like Beck had left his tape recorder on too long. Beck's slow bluesy rap is entertaining and funny.