Guided By Voices

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

(not this one either)

Oh, to speak on one's feet
To beat on one's brain
The popular mechanics are at it again
A tenement filled with side-show freaks
Assembled to downgrade
An impeccable arrangement
By the soft-rock renegades
And give me time to light
A sentimental torch tonight
I'm a big fan of the pigpen

Sharper than most
Cut with exacto
Gone is all good
Ex post facto
Ba-da-ba-da...
Oh, oh...

Pike fly mighty, every thing tries to
In the uphill crick
Kings and queens the same-fan that flame, and
Hot soup boils in the wretched spoils of the clock collector's clique
Why should I listen to you
Why should I listen to you now
Cause you're okay
You make me high
and it's a day away oh yeah
Give me strength
Blow some life into me Jesus yeah
You're alright
Blow some life into a free man now

Miracles bleed through steel and needle
In the uphill crick
Silhouettes and screams
that's what we mean
Come on big seven
Gimmie green heaven at the final gun
Why should I listen to you
Why should I listen to you now
Cause you're okay
You make me high
and it's a day away oh yeah
Give me strength
Blow some life into me Jesus yeah
You're alright
Blow some life into a free man now
You're alright
Blow some life into me Jesus yeah
Gimmie strength
Blow some life into a free man now
You're okay
Blow some life into me Jesus now
You're alright
Blow some life into a free man yeah
You're alright
Blow some life into me Jesus now
Gimmie strength
Blow some life into a free man now
you're okay
Blow some life into me Jesus now
you're okay.....

(Sprout)

Many years we spent unpressured
That we knew so swell
Love in times of simple pleasures
Only time would tell
Oh, this is not to say
We are not the way we used to be
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

We were not so fond of reason
Everyone could tell
Even times we'd start to stumble
But never ever fell
Oh, this is not to say
We were not the worst we've ever been
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Fools and kings decide
Ways to live your life
This is just the way we want to be

(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...

(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...

(R. Pollard)

Alright
Alright
Alright
Alright

for our lives to be once again
like it once was
in the ice age, in a kingdom long ago;
without songs, without hope, without meaning,
and therefore
always having the same effect
without ever knowing why

(R. Pollard)

Full head of nothing
Fail to see the difference
Fail to feel the mercy
Off to join the flagstaff
Always crush me
Picture my amazement
When it doesn't always pain me
And I will reproduce faster

Commitment trailblazer
Your trail is quite a puzzle
And you are such a daredevil
And you are such a collector
Always crush me
Picture my amazement
When it doesn't always pain me
And I will reproduce faster

An unmarketed product
Is shining clear for many years
The time it takes you to put up
Shut out the fears for many years

How do these things
come in to our lives
So obtrusively?
Why do they change
their prices so accordingly?
Well, I can give you credit
Suitable and custom tailored
And if you have any luck
You'll get ahead
Before you're dead

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

I apologize in advance

Near a distant sea
Her clear yellow eyes
Are opening to pink and black skies
And soon they are blinking
With compound camera eyes
Are you faster
Than the eyes of the car-people?
Styled in silver
Are you able to roam
Faster then the lighthouse keeper credits you?

As quickly as the August you arrived
Miles from everywhere and still survived
Some of the time quite lost
Find your spot

The mind that builds the soul must form a face
A character and ego out of place
Other times a target
On your mark

Seek not for to rehabilitate
Try hard to stop and not stop to concentrate

And nothing could be finer, yeah
In Asia Minor, yeah
The devil in the china, yeah

As slowly as the January snow
Miles from everywhere and you must know
The part that you hate and like
Hates to like

Be prepared for what's lurking outside
I am poised with silver bullets

But nothing could be finer, yeah
In Asia Minor, yeah
The devil in the china, yeah

These thoughts replace me when I'm on the floor
I cannot taste the sweetness anymore
You bipolarize me with each test
Contaminate the faintest breath
For speaking well of in the name
Of where to watch and who to blame
All of us there
What should I wear?

For human frailty on parade
To entertain you may invade
A silent party, secret wish
At best an unconvincing kiss
Expand
Explode
Wrinkle up
Or blow away

I took you up to let me down
I take the time to track you
Through chosen smokescreen silhouettes
Who've earned the right to back you
This for so long
Perfect and wrong

You write me out, I reappear
To criticize you interfere
But I will say what I want to
And there is nothing you can do
Expand
Explode
Wrinkle up
Or blow away

I'm dreaming and so it must be true
Nothing else could look as good as you do
And so in a rocket go
Up to where the astros flow into space
Don't hold me down

Atom eyes, don't worry your brain
Take a break from every day
Sell the house, the car, the pain
Atom eyes

I'm running away from your clues
Atomizer sprinkler are spraying perfume
Escape a lobotomy
There's a million heartstrings ready to fly
Let's pull them now

Atom eyes, don't worry your brain
Take a break from every day
Sell the house, the car, the pain
Just be sure to live again
Atom eyes

Atom eyes, don't worry your brain
Take a break from every day
Sell the house, the car, the pain
Just be sure to live again
Atom eyes

(R. Pollard-Sprout)

Post-punk X-Man parked his fork-lift
Like a billion stars flickering from the grinder's wheel
Lower hybrid clad in metal
In subgroup tools
Excused from schools
To fathom hell
See you now
Echo and his brother (Echo and his brother)
Fish and Peter the Pig
Will meet where it's big
Auditorium
Auditorium
Auditorium
Auditorium

Give him hope
Give him progress
Give him time

Sell him communion
Dream angels telepathy
It's an item
Of appropriate backing
Regardless of enemies

Things are fine beneath your zodiac sign
The dancing monsters
Have all gone home to bed
To find their secret hideaways

If this is the reason
That I have no recall
Each man has his fuss
It's not a thing
You think you can run
But you know you must fall
Ever spiralling down
Afraid forever

It fazes me slightly
It dazes me nightly
But these things won't hurt me
And I feel like a completely different person

You chose a giant step - caught your eye
Guaranteed sweetness that you thought broken
And you were not fine
And bearing in mind
Other ones that you could have wed
And hopefully dread

And I wouldn't dare to
Bring out this
Awful bliss

No I wouldn't dare to
Bring out this
Awful bliss

No I wouldn't dare to
Bring out this
Awful bliss

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

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

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

(R. Pollard-J. Pollard-Demos)

Introducing the amazing rockethead
You know what the deal is dude
Excuse me Napoleon
But I gotta know
Why I gotta stand
In a hallway
In a highway
Where nothing goes my way
Well I'm going out
Well I'm going in
To the Big Chief's place
Gonna slap his factory down

Here I go around the blame
Here I go with hand over flame
Down on the floor at nine o'clock
A scene not fully recognized
At precisely nine o'clock

Here I go with clapping hands
Here I go with “still no plans”
Illuminate the mystery
The film is not for view
The film is not for you

Come on, polluted eyeballs
Stop scouting out the field
Jump up, bright paper werewolves
And everybody everywhere

Anyone can scratch
And anyone can win
So bring out another batch

They want to get out of here
But they can’t find the exit
They cling to the cinema
And they can’t find security
Then they finally got recognized
So they left in obscurity and misery

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

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

Don't open life alone
Contact the empire solutionaries
They cut the skin, they peel back the onion
Reveal the ghost blood
Fat black gas exudes
Moves into the mirrored halls of empty values

Canned sister Iowa
Drive me to the changing room
Where the counterfeit meets
And brings its collection of orphans

Leave them in the state grip
The nurses hate them
But it's up to you and me, my faithful sin-eater
To give them a glorious lightbath
And remove their wrapping
Their burning flag birthday suit

The lifeblood - the lighthouse flashing
Sixteen chicks remain on watch
For the wheels to come rolling in
And they do...
Yes they always do
I'd be bored and disappointed if they didn't

Buzzards and dreadful crows
Right on the tip of my nose
They wait like cats and fly out
For the light in my eyes to die out
And it does...
Yes it always does
I'd be shocked and removed if it didn't

Buzzards and dreadful crows
A necessary evil, I suppose
There's something in this deal for everyone
Did you really think that you were the only one?

Buzzards and dreadful crows
A necessary evil, I suppose
There's something in this deal for everyone
Did you really think that you were the only one?
You were the only one

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

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

Cheyenne - The face of pride never died
Cheyenne - The true blue water
Cheyenne - I celebrate for you and I
Sifting through the pieces of the broken prize

Cheyenne - I'm sending out satellites
Cheyenne - I'm hovering quite largely
Cheyenne - In paradox in suicide
Cheyenne in white

And if an innocent minute lives for the light
The time is right
Define a line
To hold back the night - inside
A single glimpse of purity
In a flickering light
Cheyenne sees right

And if an innocent minute lives for the light
The time is right, define a line
To hold back the night inside
A single glimpse of purity in a flickering light
Cheyenne sees right

Cheyenne - A drama not acted out
Cheyenne - In destiny stay gazing
Cheyenne - In witnessing if I'm to miss
Cheyenne in white

Cheyenne in white
Cheyenne in white
Cheyenne in white
Cheyenne in white
Cheyenne in white
Cheyenne in white
Cheyenne in white

(R. Pollard)

Chicken blows
I suppose we could have a girl or a boy
And I see what you mean
I'm not here to drink all the beer
In the fridge (oh, la la la)
In the room (oh)
In the house
In the place (oh, la la la)
That we both (oh)
So love
Can you sink to the depths (lots of "oh"ing)
I don't know
I don't even care
And our lives slip away
In the end we will probably reach
All the way (oh, la la la)
To the walls (oh)
over there
Have you flown? (oh, la la la)
Our courage (oh)
Is only a taste
And I'll get paid (ooh, ooh)
If you'll get laid (ooh, ooh)
It's our parade (ooh, ooh)

Chocolate boy
You fell into the summer
And neither neither none
Of all the good you've done
Could turn our happy factory
Once again from bummer

Paper man
Exposed a nasty rumor
Of all the fouls we cried
Belied and Bowdlerized
For our hypocracy
And nepotistic humor

The best of opera
And dutch chocolate finger play
The test at the exit
Of the entrance we will know
A concrete heart sinks slow

And chocolate kings adore
A chocolate painted floor
A look out down before
And then the summer made
A chocolate boy no more

Days into weeks
She rattled my mind
We stayed out all week
And got happy this time
She fills empty space
I kinda need it that way
Crybaby says bye to me

I can't imagine that all our troubles will go away
But I could catch her and break the falls
I could snatch her with beaks and claws

Today when every “fake it” decides to make it
They just can't take it away
Shove it, ‘cause I'll just stay
Like an ugly unwanted stray
Don't care what you say

Sometimes her mother will work with her
But There's nothing wrong with her
There's nothing wrong with her
There's nothing wrong

So such is life that it writes itself
Trying to right itself
But There's nothing wrong with it
There's nothing wrong

And every single day without much to say
These apparitions raise a toast to their kind

The people who are these things
Are not afraid with you
And caring must go with the wisdom
Of their selections

Never can touch their sign language
So is the cost of sound barriers
Even as though she's still searching
For a cloud with a silver lining
We pray for her
She's burning slow
Out on a mission's light

Christian animation torch carriers
This is a shallow hole but faith makes it safe
Hiding inside a grave with no sound
No witness to see
With or without you

Christian animation torch carriers
However will you learn their sign language
However will you try to hide
Within their eyes?
Within them in life?

(GbV)

Shoot up on the fast lane
She falls like a concrete robot
She's a boy
Billy-I
Billy-L
Billy-L
Billy-Y
Billy-I Billy-L Billy-L Billy-Y

(R. Pollard)

Chain smoke rings like a vapor snake kiss
She says she don't know why
The closer you are the quicker it hits you
Closer you are the quicker it hits you
Now you can see the boys dreaming, scheming. . .

You play the heavy
It's a real slick movie move
"Stoned at the Alamo" tonight
The closer you are the quicker it hits you
Try to be nice and look what it gets you
Now you can see the boys dreaming, scheming. . .

I get up at seven o'clock
And drive myself up to the Lookout Rock
The closer you are the quicker it hits you
The closer you are the quicker it hits you
Now you can see the boys dreaming, scheming. . .
The closer you are the quicker it hits you
The closer you are the quicker it hits you...