Senator
By: Stephen Malkmus

Written by: Stephen Malkmus

Versions:
  1. Senator (4:26)
    Available on Mirror Traffic.
    Credits
    Recorded at: Sunset Sound Studios
    Joanna Bolme: Bass
    Janet Weiss: Drums
    Stephen Malkmus: Guitar (Electric), Vocals
    Mike Clark: Keyboard / Synthesizer
    Beck Hansen: Producer
 
Lyrics:
Senator [Version (a)]:

The toxin's American-made
Weapons-class gray sludge for migrants
Dioxin the chemical sunset
The number one subset of all

I know what the senator wants
What the senator wants is a blow job
I know what the senator wants
What the senator wants is a blow job

Panic in the antechamber
Motion to impeach
Cattle prod the working classes
There's some things you can't teach

'Cause we're fading fast
Like a stone
Come fading fast
Into the picture you own

Little Nicky Nicky Nicky
Down in Ocean Beach, he's strumming
He used to carry his guitar around his back
And we'd just walk into certain places
Look for gigs and illuminate
Smoking weed in our truck
The cops pull up
And how couldn't they not know?
We were so so so so so invisible
Heavy heavy heavy heavy heavy heavy heavy smelter
Fuck you!

Is it funny enough?
The serious business is void and null
My duty to the Republique
Is to use doublespeak because the halo's off

I know what the senator wants
What the senator wants is a blow job
I know what everyone wants
What everyone wants is a blow job

Baby steps up Everest
There's so much trash to burn
We'll stick it where the sun don't shine
As the world turns

You start fading fast
Like a stone
Come fading fast
Into the picture you own

Fading fast
You are fading fast
You are fading fast
You are gone
Look out
 
The Song:

In 2010 or so, Beck called up Stephen Malkmus and offered his services as a producer. Malkmus and his band, The Jicks, took him up on the offer and Beck produced their album, Mirror Traffic. Beck does not perform on the album, he is merely the producer.

"Senator" is the third track from the album. There is also an alternate single version of the track, where "blow job" is replaced by "corn dog."