It's All Gonna Come To Be
By: Beck Hansen
Written by: Beck Hansen

This Version:
  • It's All Gonna Come To Be
 
Lyrics:
From KCRW version:

This is sort of a, got these chords from Bob Seger. It's sort of a heartland feeling, sort of approving...

When all is said and done, want to clip my toenails
Down down down down down
And put 'em in clear plastic ziplock bags
And take them down, down to the town
In a Monte Carlo with Stevie Nicks-interior-white leather
And you're the last thing on my list
But you're the first thing I'm gonna remember
When I wake up

It's all gonna come to be
The same bad video for twenty years
It's all gonna come to be
Optimistic Xerox of yourself

It's easier when you're self-made
You can pack it up and put it on the highway
You can fill up the air with bad breath
Because it's already polluted and reconstituted
And filtered back into the system and packaged up
And the Space Age is running out of distance
You can leap out and disconnect all the connections
And program the appliances to puke on the floor

It's all gonna come to be
Self-indulgent, yeah
It's all gonna come to be
The same old noise you never wanted to see
Mexican speed metal things
Casserole fruit salad hair gel
Self-inflicted, life-affirming hell

Is that slack? Is that crack? Are those dogs? Are those dogmas?
Are those clogs or platform shoes on your feet?
Take your Johnny Cashmachine and your talkabout fashions
That come crashing in late at night like a plane crash
Survivors come pickin' out the fiberglass and styrofoam
And the love that is breathing is the love that is spraypainting
Vandalizing everything you own

Because it's all gonna come to be
The same bad scene for twenty years
It's all gonna come to be
Optimistic Xerox of yourself
Predictions of dehabilitating health
Whining all night long, wining and dining
Climbing into the rafters, shredding your afro
Taking karate lessons, sucking in the bandages
 
Live:

Played live 3 times:
Earliest known live version: March 1, 1994
Latest known live version: September 6, 1994