Robert Pollard의 이름과 함께 Guided By Voices는 미국 인디 락 씬의 전설이 된 이름이다. 적지 않은 나이에도 불구하고 그것을 믿을 수 없는 순수한 열정으로 가득한 송라이팅과 음악적 재능을 폭발 시킨 이들은 2003년의 본 작을 그들의 20년 경력을 통틀어 전혀 부끄럽지 않은 걸작으로 완성시켰다. 그들의 첫 번째 10년을 대변하는 앨범이 1994년의 [Bee Thousand]라면 [Earthquake Glue]는 두 번째 10년을 위한 대표작으로 손색이 없으며, 미국의 인디 락 시장에서 노장들의 위치가 단순히 과거의 영광으로만 이루어지는 것이 아님을 웅변한다. AMG 4.5/5 Pitchfork Media 8.5/10 .... ....
She goes off at night Never in the day To Jesus knows where And seek vibrations Been routine In grand teacups For she is the queen Where has she been?
Step out from the shield Hiding from the dreams Where she has to bear The realizations of never being The moon splitting With messages burned What has she heard?
Will the wind that scatters dust Reveal its secrets, speak to us Of many things? In the morning when she comes The bird who wakes you with her song She'll beat her wings She will rise again
And ride a perfect high And find a sweet seed growing And never know why She sees anything
One more inch for no more reason Go without you even yet And death you sing Pass it by with once discovered Time to stop wasting time What will you bring? You will rise again
And ride a perfect high And find a sweet seed growing And never know why You hear anything
Bless the sunlight Grab this day to make you over Save the bullet Price the sandman's head This time do not roll over Beat your wings Yeah, hear them sing Of up there in the glimpse of silence Up there
When the days have come to pass Our journey broken, gone at last We'll beat our wings Shadows take familiar skin So recognize them, don't give in We'll beat our wings We will rise again
And ride a perfect high And find a sweet seed growing And never know why We feel anything Yeah, anything Yeah, beat your wings
Oh, beat your wings Yeah, beat your wings Now beat your wings Yeah, beat your wings Yeah, beat your wings Yeah, beat your wings Yeah, beat your wings Yeah, beat your wings Yeah, beat your wings
These times useless inventions Satisfy inquiring minds What about a piece of pretentions In production of new schemes? Realize a world of quick fix dreams. Come on and purchase the new one Be the first to strap it on Lose antiquated fixations That you cannot leave about For a nice try change this model out
Feed on a stroke of brilliance sometimes To cover up the oldness in your eyes From noticing the coldness in our lives Don't know if it's a miracle or a curse Maybe we can help you to feel worse
These days useless inventions Simplify or complicate You've got the keys to the kingdom That through which you could remove That from small beginnings must improve
Feed on a stroke of brilliance sometimes To cover up the oldness in your eyes From noticing the coldness in our lives Don't know if it's a miracle or a curse Maybe we can help you to feel worse Tap the curiosity of your youth Are you seeking dead or taking truth? Never knowing what will come up next Will it be the panic switch or select?
Well, it's too late to change your connection Didn't even get through inspection Copyright divine interventions Getting tired of useless inventions Getting tired of useless inventions Getting tired of useless inventions Getting tired of useless inventions Getting tired of useless inventions
Mess me up, scratch liquid Field tested, dirty water Fell asleep and found it boat Cross my heart not to return Watch it burn Dirty water, all of it
Flag torn, half rations Steel rusted dirty water Found a tree and hitched me up Brought me down to all I had done Wouldn't float Dirty water, some of it
I apologize in advance For the jigsaw's missing teeth For the animals in their holes, at least
There is argument in your eyes So I'm loosening all my ties The ones that you have come to despise
Throw the heat off Bite me when I eat off Someone else's plate
It is now I should attempt Perhaps to think and wait Result to contemplate a fate That's waited this long for me And the night's too bright To hide from sight So I better get things right
I keep searching, turning on, equally frustrated Hopelessness and sickness always, kick you up a storm A disabled vet, well, I'm not there yet
Been around the block, I even threw up one street over Absorbed in the holding cell, all blemishes exposed With the plastic hand of man I can
Stepping up, I go limp at the sound of women laughing Leaving me to speculate the odds of one last chance To apologize in advance
Met a man of energy Suppose it doesn't work Lantern man Find an inoperative halo Tossed inside a field In your crystal ball Was he ostracized Injured, or cast away In a playhouse With hoops and hairpins?
Grow alone After, know your conjurer A spinster kept checking For a special clock remover But now we're out of time Secret star of heavenly bundles Firmly confirmed yesterday
Send no more joy No more light No more danger It will always come It will always come
To wish for you to fall To wish for you to burn To wish for your return