The song was recorded in 1992 along with Carl Stephenson, around the same time they had been working on Beck's biggest hit, "Loser".
The lyrics features blues imagery, with lines such as "sleeping on a hollow log" and "you know you cannot hide when the devil's your only friend".
[4] "Steal My Body Home" is only known to have been played live once, during a concert on the Mellow Gold tour in Japan on September 1, 1994.
[7][8] The website Across the Margin thought that "Steal My Body Home" was the album's most complete sounding song, and wrote that it is "a wildly successful attempt to slow things down, to let the listener expand into the album's headspace and take a bizarre look around.
"[9] IGN described the song as "a downer number that is best experienced whilst wearing headphones and in a mental haze".