Guided By Voices - Human Amusements At Hourly Rates (2004) by Guided By Voices (보컬) on maniadb.com

(R. Pollard-Sprout)

Disarm the settlers
The new drunk drivers
Have hoisted the flag
We are with you in your anger
Proud brothers
Do not fret
The bus will get you there yet
To carry us to the lake
The club is open
Yeah, The club is open
Hey, the club is open
A-come on, come on, the club is open
C'mon, c'mon, the club is open
C'mon, c'mon, c'mon, the club is open...

Coded ancient, the crease
Unlock the timers
And strike the chimers
In my sleep

Grab the coat, steel the fleece
From behind the curtain
It will most certain-
ly bring peace

To those with countless numbers
No longer cold or hot, like
Things that I will keep
And hide them in my sleep

Dead even countless numbers
No longer cold or hot, like
Things that I will keep
And hide them in my sleep

Coded ancient, oh brightness
We shall see
Loaded up and at night when
We shall flee
Not to tread through the heavy life
Sink in the dream
On the right night
You'll find her waiting

Selling things for cheap
The things that I will keep

Eyeline the driveway
Eyeblack the door
Sky all around me
Levels life from roof to floor

Trees and knees are lovely
Seek it, find the core
I have grown to life
Like all in silence, wait for more

Everywhere with helicopter
Hard to follow when I'm slow
Everywhere with helicopter
Sending off where lightning goes

I will try to fight them
I will let them nowhere to go
Try escape the pace
I'll say God bless you, let me know

We know the answers
We fill us in
I do not diminish
Start to finish, front to end

Everywhere with helicopter
Hard to swallow when I'm slow
Everywhere with helicopter
Censor of the lightning ghosts

Everywhere with helicopter
Hard to swallow when I'm slow
Everywhere with helicopter
Sending off where lightning goes

I am a tree, I show my age when I don't cry
I have the leaf that will fall off when wind blows by
Don't strip off my bark, I have been stripped of it before
‘Cause yesterday's gone and tomorrow has so much more in store

You are a bird, you're taking off in every way
Save the last word till there is nothing more to say
Don't interrupt, you know the squirrels are my friends
Get off my limb, for I will break before I bend

I'm planning to see
I'm planning to feel you all over me
So climb up my trunk and build on your nest
Come get the sap out of me
I am a tree
Fruitless and free
No symmetry
Touch me and see

I am a tree, counting my rings will do no good
I won't live long, but I would be with you if I could
When you take flight, remember me to one who lives there
Since you have flown, there's something special in the air

I'm planning to see
I'm planning to feel you all over me
So climb up my trunk and build on your nest
Come get the sap out of me
I am a tree
Fruitless and free
No symmetry
Touch me and see

I am a tree, yeah
Fruitless and free, yeah
No symmetry, yeah

Paralyze the chains
Soft the shelled remains
Stun the strike brigade
They are played

Out with cheek and hair
Take the right to bear
Teeth to bite them down
In the ground

My kind of soldier
You can ride on my shoulders
When you've won
Fight for the moment
Of control, when it opens
Then it's gone

Introduce your pride
To the other side
Vaporize the trial
With denial

My kind of soldier
You can ride on my shoulders
When you've won
Fight for the moment
Of control, when it opens
Then it's gone

14 cheerleader coldfront
Point your nose beyond
Creeping boys in alleys
Find them when you’re gone

Stick close to locker rooms
And wavy clothes to wear
You will hold them dear
To something queer and stare

16 used companions
Have nowhere to stay
Give them access to parking spaces
No coin meters there

Stick close to locker rooms
And wavy clothes to wear
You will hold them dear
To something queer and stare

You will hold them dear
To something queer and stare

Tower to the skies
An academy of lies
And what goes up
Surely must come down
And we felt the mighty blow-up
With the walls coming down
Or something like that

Most of us are quite pleased
With the same old song
And all of a sudden I'm relatively sane
With everything to lose and nothing to gain
Or something like that

Man of wisdom and man of compromise
Man of weak flesh in an armored disguise
All fall down

"If it's right you can tell" echos myron like a siren
With endurance like the liberty bell
And he tells you of the dreamers
But he's cracked up like the road
And he'd like to lift us up, but we're a very heavy load
And we're finally here and shit yeah it's cool
And shouldn't it be - or something like that

You are a child reaching out brave and true
For big things in the next room, and I
Couldn't step into such open sky
Along the crest of uncertainty you loom
I'm learning to hunt for you
I'm learning to hunt for you

Say that you'll never run too far away
Even with all the answers out there
Where it's brighter, but no one will care
Half as much as I care about you
I'm learning to hunt for you
I'm learning to hunt for you

I played the part
I played the start
I made a table out of clay
I placed my hands
Upon the plans
I waited for a proud display
I played around
I heard the sound
Of certain trouble on the way

I got bulldog skin
I got bulldog skin

I took a car
I drove it far
I dug the quality of steel
I crashed my nerve
I made it swerve
I made it back, was no big deal
I tasted blood
A date with scud
And now I don't know how to feel

‘Cause I got bulldog skin
I got bulldog skin
All right, get wild

I got bulldog skin
I got bulldog skin

I got bulldog skin
I got bulldog skin

Why is it every time I think about you
Something that you have said or implied makes
me doubt you
Then I look into your cynical eyes and I know it
As if it never meant anything to me

Parallel lines on a slow decline - tractor rape chain
Better yet, let's all get wet on the tractor rape chain
Speed up, slow down, go all around in the end

In the first place it's probably just paranoia
But there's a ghost in my room
And he says I better run
It's a thing I know - it's a thing I believe in
Won't you tell it to go away?

Parallel lines on a slow decline - tractor rape chain
Better yet, let's all get wet on the tractor rape chain
Speed up, slow down, go all around in the end
Speed up, slow down, go all around in the end...

I've waited too long to have you
Hide in the back of me
I've cheated so long I wonder
How you keep track of me

You could never be strong
You can only be free
And I never asked for the truth
But you owe that to me

I've entered the game of pricks
With knives in the back of me
Can't call you or on you no more
When they're attacking me

I'll climb up on the house
Weep to water the trees
And when you come calling me down
I'll put on my disease

You could never be strong
You can only be free
And I never asked for the truth
But you owe that to me
And I never asked for the truth
But you owe that to me
And I never asked for the truth
But you owe that to me

To remake the young flyer
Yes, we must define his high desire
Stand erect and not detect
The anythings that we could not admire

From a long line of highmen
Number one, is that the one to send?
To restore all the trial
This and then the national pride, so proud

A question to the lunatic
Does your day seem like night?
Does your world go to heaven?

Gallant men dash forth
He takes his place
He ends the laughter of the slaughter daughters
Takes his softness from his hand and goes

To remake the young flyer
Yes, we must define his high desire

(R. Pollard)

This is called "the coming of age"
Coming into town with the giggling faggots
Starting blizzards and other weird weather patterns
We participate in the shit
Now that's a hit
Now that's a hit!

Hey, glad girls only want to get you high
And they're alright

There will be no coronation
There will be no flowers flowing
In the light that passes though me

Hey, glad girls only want to get you high
And they're alright

There will be no graduation
There will be no trumpets blowing
In the light that passes through me

With the sinking of the sun
I've come to greet you
Clean your hands and go to sleep
Confess the dreams
Of good and bad men all around
Some are lost
And some have found
The light that passes though me

With surgical focus
She stared at me and said
“I'm willing to reach out into your head
And I will keep you and cleanse you”
She glared at me and wept
A change is not going to hurt you
Not this time

And I've been waiting in line for this
Now that it's taken forever, I insist
Until I get it, I can't breathe
Climbing high upon the rocky cliffs, she flies
With surgical focus
With surgical focus

With surgical focus
She stared at me and said
“I'm willing to reach out, get into your head
And I will keep you and cleanse you”
She glared at me and wept
A change is not going to hurt you
Not this time

And I've been waiting in line for this
Now that it's taken forever, I insist
Until I get it, I can't breathe
Climbing high upon the rocky cliffs, she flies
With surgical focus
With surgical focus

Well, I've been waiting in line for this
Now that it's taken forever, I insist
Until I get it, I can't breathe
Climbing high upon the rocky cliffs, she flies
With surgical focus
With surgical focus
With surgical focus
With surgical focus
With surgical focus
With surgical focus

Paid up, weathered, and type-O
Clad in gladstone, watch him go
Swimming ‘neath the microscope
Hello lonely, bless the nation
Mister skip to all or none
Wooden soldiers fall upon
Try to find what makes her tick
While they're finding out what makes them sick

I don't know where you find your nerve
I don't know how you choose your words
Speak the ones that suit you worst
Keep you grounded, sad, and cursed
Circle the ones that come alive
Save them for the best of Jill Hives

Been around and left you flat
Tragically decided that
Every child of God's a brat
And she's dying to escape them
But do we really need to see
All her punchdrunk history?
And which of it might hold the key
For the exit to her destiny?

I don't know where you get your nerve
I don't know how you choose your words
Speak the ones that suit you worst
Keep you grounded, sad, and cursed
Circle the ones that come alive
Save them for the best of Jill Hives

I don't know where you find your nerve
I don't know how you choose your words
Speak the ones that suit you worst
Keep you grounded, sad, and cursed
Circle the ones that come alive
Save them for the best of Jill Hives

Number one in all our souls
Trifle in a crystal bowl
Fill it up with nine to five
Save them for the best of Jill Hives

I met a non-dairy creamer
Explicitly laid out like a fruitcake
With a wet spot
Bigger than a great lake
Took me to the new church
And baptized me with salt
She told me, "liquor"
I am a new man

Hot freaks

This one is on the house
This one is better than ever

I walked into the house of miraculous recovery
And stood before king everything
And he asked me to join him in the red wing
Took me to pie land
Said, "I'm a thigh man"
I will be eternally hateful

Hot freaks
Hot freaks
Hot freaks

This one is on the house
This one is better than ever
And this one is on the house
This one is better than ever
This one is on the house
This one is better than ever

Were you there?
Were you kicking?
Alive in aisle twelve
Gimmick of the century
In boxes and jars
And giveaway cars
He motioning for you

Twas a band
They were sickening
Arousing everyone
PS Dump Your Boyfriend
Promotional trash
Emotional bash
With helium balloons

So now tell me
How the hell did we miss it
Bared his ass for all to see
And no one got to kiss it

Trailing off the likes of it
She likes it when it grows
Sending out a candidate
She's sinking her foes
Peaking out then leveling
Wherever it goes

And her mother will greet you
And a river will reach you
Breaking out to make you slave again

Chasing Heather crazy
Chasing Heather crazy
Making sure that all the world is coming down
All the world is coming down on her
Anywhere I want to
And if you want to come too
We'll go down where
All the girls are stumblin' round
All the world is crumbling down around her

Staring out from otherworldly windows painted red
Doesn't have to listen to the voices in your head
That's a different lie
Do you remember what was said?

And her mother will greet you
And a river will reach you
Breaking out to make you slave again

Chasing Heather crazy
Chasing Heather crazy
Making sure that all the world is coming down
All the world is coming down on her
Anywhere I want to
And if you want to come too
We'll go down where
All the girls are stumblin' round
All the world is crumbling down around her

Around her
Around her
Around her
Around her

I want to start a new life
With my valuable hunting knife
She will shine like a new girl
And I want to shout out our love to the world, hit it

Everything I think about I think about
Everything I talk about I talk about with you
But you don't know what I go through
You don't know

Days, they will turn into nights
But my valuable hunting knife
It will not rust through the tears
And it will not lose its appeal over years, come on

Everything I think about I think about
Everything I talk about I talk about with you
But you don't know what I go through
You don't know

I'll never know
I'll never know
And then I will run
And then I will. . .
And then I will hide
And then I will. . .
And then I will run
And then I will. . .
And then I will hide

I'll never know
I'll never know

Bitter fish in crude oil sea
You don't have to bother me
You just have to join in on this song
Crawling people on your knees
Don't take this so seriously
You just have to hum it all day long

To dine alone
To build a private zone
Or trigger a synapse
And free us from our traps

You won't see me turn my back
With my head against my stack
Spitting teeth and breaking open skin
Official ironmen, you are free
Champions officially
But you won't catch me on an open chin

To dine alone
To build a private zone
Or trigger a synapse
And free us from our traps

Knockout punches for the freaks
Happy little babies with red cheeks
You will rock them gently out of sync
Confirmations through the wire
Spitting gas into the fire
Am I also worthy of a drink?

To dine alone
To build a private zone
Or trigger a synapse
And free us from our traps

Do you see me, doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo
Like I see you? Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo
Do you see me, doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo
Like I see you? Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo
Do you see me?

Time lost, can't ever understand
The lines like most, we wants to be alone
But we can't be alone

Do you see me, doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo
Like I see you? Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo
Do you see me, doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo
Like I see you? Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo
Do you see me?

Can't believe the things we ask for
Can't believe the things we want
Do you see more than I do?
Do you see me?
Do you see more than I do?

Do you see me, doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo
Do you see me?
Do you see me, doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo
Do you see me?

Do you see more than I do?
Do you see more than I do?
Do you see more than I do?

When you motor away beyond the once-red lips
When you free yourself from the chance of a lifetime
You can be anyone they told you to
You can belittle every little voice that told you so
And then the time will come when you add up the numbers
And then the time will come when you motor away
Oh, why don't you just drive away?

When you motor away down the icy streets
You can't lie to yourself that it's the chance of a lifetime
You can be anyone they told you to
You can belittle every little voice that told you so
And the time will come when you add up the numbers
And then the time will come when you motor away
Oh, why don't you just drive away?

Come on
Speed on

Someone tell me why
I do the things
That i don't wanna do
When you're around me..I'm somebody else
Someone tell me why I act like a fool
When things don't go my way
When you're around me
I'm somebody else

There is good reason I guess
Having once gone too far
When you clean out the hive
Does it make you wanna cry
I'm still being followed by the Teenage FBI

(CHORUS)
Someone tell me why
Someone tell me why
Someone tell me why I do the things
That i don't wanna do
When you're around me
I'm somebody else
Someone tell me why
Someone tell me why

Someone tell me why I do the things
That I don't wanna do
When you're around me
I'm somebody else
Someone tell me why I act like a fool
When things don't go my way
When you're around me
I'm somebody else

There is good reason i guess
Having once gone to far
When you clean out the hive
Does it make you wanna cry
I'm still being followed by the Teenage FBI

(Repeat Chorus)

I don’t know where I’ve come from
I don’t know where I’m off to
and I need to find a way out
and he’s here to help me find it

Exit Flagger ...Exit Flagger
I'm not going to race you today

I need a life (as same as?)
and I don't believe in anything
I promise to (leave or lead ?) you one of these days
I promise it'll be real soon.

Exit Flagger..Exit Flagger
I'm not going to race you today

Promise to leave you

How can I look through
Their senseless side?
As much as I'd like to
All is not right - and it shows
All around you
Under the tree - a seed
Come in closer
There is a sign
Shaped in the mind

Pick up - for God's sake
When we call you back to the lake

How can I tell you
All that is wrong
Nothing invites you
Can't get along - with you now
And I try to
There is a page
It's still unwritten
Why can't you find
Time in your schedule
To pick up...

Oh, pick up for God's sake
When we call you back to the lake

Make no mistake
We will call you back to the lake

I am a scientist - I seek to understand me
All of my impurities and evils yet unknown
I am a journalist - I write to you to show you
I am an incurable
And nothing else behaves like me

And I know what's right
But I'm losing sight
Of the clues for which I search and choose
To abuse
To just unlock my mind
Yeah, and just unlock my mind

I am a pharmacist
Prescriptions I will fill you
Potions, pills and medicines
To ease your painful lives
I am a lost soul
I shoot myself with rock & roll
The hole I dig is bottomless
But nothing else can set me free

And I know what's right
But I'm losing sight
Of the clues for which i search and choose
To abuse
To just unlock my mind
Yeah, and just unlock my mind

I am a scientist - I seek to understand me
I am an incurable and nothing else behaves like me

Everything is right
Everything works out right
Everything fades from sight
Because that's alright with me