Sorry
By: Beck Hansen

Written by: Beck Hansen

Versions:
  1. Sorry
    Available on Song Reader.
 
Lyrics:
Sorry [Version (a)]:

I've been hanging around again
Hang my head on the ground again
Turn my face to the wall
Turn my head to the wall

Nobody knows you when you're feeling sorry
Nobody needs you when you're feeling sorry
I'm sorry
I'm sorry

Used to be happy
Used to be laughing
Used to be happy
Ohh

I've been walking around again
Tongued tied over the town again
Stranded out in the hall
Thrown right over the wall
 
The Song:

Beck wrote "Sorry" for his Song Reader project. He has played it live a few times, but like the rest of the book (except one song), Beck has not recorded it. Presumably he did record private demos of the tracks though. On the official Song Reader cd, Laura Marling performs "Sorry."

"Sorry" is a simple song, and one of the more minimal ones on Song Reader. It reads to me like it came straight out of Beck's Sea Change world, a mostly-straightforward song of lonesomeness.

You can hear versions of the song here.

 
Live:

Played live 6 times:
Earliest known live version: May 19, 2013
Latest known live version: August 1, 2013

Beck did perform a few of the Song Reader songs live after the book came out.

"Sorry" was one he did throughout that summer, having played it 6 times. He played it himself at a handful of more "acoustic"-oriented shows in summer of 2013, as well as one Song Reader live event.