Simply Jazz Lyrics
Jazz
Jazz
Floating through space
Time has no meaning
Large empty space
Time isn't there
Grooving through time
Life has no meaning
Sexualization of the jazz
Jazz
Crawling through time
Finding the gold
Digging deep through the earth looking for gold
But finding only space
Jazz
Stinky jazz
Flowing through jazz
Time has no meaning
Forty-five minutes of non stop jazz
I'm sorry I was mistaken
It's two hours and seventy-eight minutes of non-stop jazz
Jazz
Floating through space
Time has no meaning
Large empty space
Time isn't there
Grooving through time
Life has no meaning
Sexualization of the jazz
Jazz
Crawling through time
Finding the gold
Digging deep through the earth looking for gold
But finding only space
Jazz
Stinky jazz
Flowing through jazz
Time has no meaning
Forty-five minutes of non stop jazz
I'm sorry I was mistaken
It's two hours and seventy-eight minutes of non-stop jazz
You cannot stop the jazz
You cannot cut, quite cut off the head of jazz
But you can smell the jazz
Can you taste the jazz?
It tastes like honeysuckle dew drops from the breeze of ancient nations
I'm not quite sure that you want the jazz
You cannot like the jazz
You're pretty sure that you hate the jazz
And yet you are the jazz
Jazz
Who put the devil into my jazz
I said
Who put Beelzeboss into my jazz
Who put Satan into my jazz
Was it you? Was it you? Who did it?
There's Satan in my jazz
The devil is in my jazz
Too much Satan in my jazz
Me and Kage are hungry
We're hungry for some jazz
You cannot cut, quite cut off the head of jazz
But you can smell the jazz
Can you taste the jazz?
It tastes like honeysuckle dew drops from the breeze of ancient nations
I'm not quite sure that you want the jazz
You cannot like the jazz
You're pretty sure that you hate the jazz
And yet you are the jazz
Jazz
Who put the devil into my jazz
I said
Who put Beelzeboss into my jazz
Who put Satan into my jazz
Was it you? Was it you? Who did it?
There's Satan in my jazz
The devil is in my jazz
Too much Satan in my jazz
Me and Kage are hungry
We're hungry for some jazz
That's Kones on electric
That's Spike on the bass
That's Brooks on the drums
That's Kage in your face
And little ol' me on voc's
The vox
The thing you know to be true
Yeah
A new direction for the D
It's absolutely certain that we will sell many records this way
But that's not why we do it, no
There's simply nothing to it, no
Our hearts have led us this way
But have our hearts led us astray?
Yes
I'm afraid our hearts have led us astray
Why do you do it?
Why you do it this way?
Because the jazz has no meaning
That's Spike on the bass
That's Brooks on the drums
That's Kage in your face
And little ol' me on voc's
The vox
The thing you know to be true
Yeah
A new direction for the D
It's absolutely certain that we will sell many records this way
But that's not why we do it, no
There's simply nothing to it, no
Our hearts have led us this way
But have our hearts led us astray?
Yes
I'm afraid our hearts have led us astray
Why do you do it?
Why you do it this way?
Because the jazz has no meaning
Can you feel it?
Can you feel it coming from the ugly down below?
That's the feeling, don't ya know
Of the scat man
Jazz man
It's an ancient jazz
It's an ancient kind of jazz
It's a sweet taste of jazz
Aw, that sweet, delicious Jazz
Aw, that scrumptious jazz
Get inside the jazz
Let it take you higher
Let it take you all the way
To the other side of the universe of your soul
Jazz
And stop!
Can you feel it coming from the ugly down below?
That's the feeling, don't ya know
Of the scat man
Jazz man
It's an ancient jazz
It's an ancient kind of jazz
It's a sweet taste of jazz
Aw, that sweet, delicious Jazz
Aw, that scrumptious jazz
Get inside the jazz
Let it take you higher
Let it take you all the way
To the other side of the universe of your soul
Jazz
And stop!
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The track on the first side of Tenacious D’s 2012 EP Jazz. “Simply Jazz” is a big stylistic departure for the D, being an 11-minute longform jazz composition rather than a rock/metal one like what they’re known for. However, it still has the trademark D humor injected into it, containing some previous album references and other random improv stuff.
In this 2014 interview, Jack Black claims that he played the recording to jazz double bass player Charlie Haden and Haden reacted by walking out of the room shortly after it began.
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Released on
November 23, 2012
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