Guided By Voices

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

Dragons awake!
Take me through the voodoo, Buddha
You are the king of things
I am a fake

Over the treetops, an automan
An automatic girl
Predator skin and orangutan alive
I have two eyes
Sprinkle the pearls over the ham
Grand Peter, might it be the pipes of Pan?
Oh, oh

Softer tits will greet you
But they have been tapped
By suckers of the sap
Now I'm going home
In the distance I can see them
Proudly waving flags
To separate and free them

Dragons awake!
Forever and ever
For everyone to see

Dragons awake!
Dragons awake!

Every street is dark and folding
Out mysteriously
Where lies the chance we take
To be always working, reaching out for
A hand that we can't see
Everybody's gotta hold on hope
It's the last thing that's holding me

Invitiation to the last dance
Then it's time to leave
But that's the price we pay
When we deceive one another, animal mother
She opens up for free
Everybody's gotta hold on hope
It's the last thing that's holding me

Look at the talkbox
In mute frustration
At the station
There hides the cowboy

Look at the talkbox
In mute frustration
At the station
There hides the cowboy
His campfire flickering
On the landscape

That nothing grows on
But time still goes on
Through each life of misery
Everybody's gotta hold on hope
It's the last thing that's holding me

Everybody's gotta hold on hope
It's the last thing that's holding me

Everybody's gotta hold on hope
It's the last thing that's holding me

What have we here?
Where the fragmented mind is reassembled

A new gift for crying out loud
A small token of our appreciation
Human amusements at hourly rates

It all makes for trouble math
But when the lights come on
You leave me in stitches
You leave me in stitches

I hear you singing
The spiritual getaway
Yearning to hike away
From hurt and spiny things
Who use you for their practices
And settlements

Permanent holy wars dissolve and crash
On the red horizon
Busted bottle red sunshine
Moonfire flickering

Arcane offices delivering deluxe information:

1) The Quaker's Seal of Approval
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I'm a born again boot stomping witch-humper
Are we there yet?
The skips and flips are taking sips of

Liquid Indian
Liquid Indian
Liquid Indian
Liquid Indian

Soft clay orifice
Quivering like new structures and formations

A perversion not known to the perfect ones

A stinging disruption, alas
It is quick like the ultimate brush-off

Is it time yet?
We've coupons and stamps
And valuable cramps from

Liquid Indian
Liquid Indian
Liquid Indian
Liquid Indian

Time is gone out
If you pick up the weekend
Precisely, do you see
The weak ones of a shifting ethic
Are packing up?

So let me know if you go
Much better Mr. Buckles
The kind nod of his employment
Wishes you well
Let me know if you go
Much better Mr. Buckles
The kind nod of his employment
Wishes you well

Slow and unsure
Do unfurl your lips and call me
Entice me, have a drink
The sick list of a cryptic print
Is whited out

So let me know if you go
Much better Mr. Buckles
The kind nod of his employment
Wishes you well
Let me know if you go
Much better Mr. Buckles
The kind nod of his employment
Wishes you well

Living without you is difficult
But our dead dreams awake
In my mushroom art

Do not observe her beauty
Cloud-faced old man winking
You see, he tests me
He wants I should join him in gratitude
For his craft
He calls this love
But hardly so

Happy the universe
Happy is the act
A bejewelled crow on a quilted tent
Yea, at the zenith
Our dead dreams awake

Living without you is difficult
But our dead dreams awake
In my mushroom art

Meet me at the market
Where you bought me out
Closely examine
The contact point of the
opposing rams

Now we are playing optical hopscotch

Now we are over here
Sketching the field of the spies

Front me a coroner's allotment
I'll not fail to return
An exact Earth pinprick

Now we are engaged in optical hopscotch

What's left of our vision?
Our swimming vision?
Of what division?

Look!

Picture me big time
Up along the range
With this woman of mine
Driving me insane
Parasites baby
Don't you know I can't lie to you?

There was a band from Beantown
They drove the now sound
With a girl at the top of her lungs now
Yeah, a girl at the top of her lungs
She'd tell the people, “Baby
The world will settle down for no one
I will deliver to you, yeah
I will deliver to you”

Picture me big time
Up along the range
With this woman of mine
Driving me insane
Parasites baby
Don't you know I can't lie to you?

There was a band from Beantown
They drove the now sound
With a girl at the top of her lungs now
Yeah, a girl at the top of her lungs
She'd tell the people, “Baby
The world will settle down for no one
I will deliver to you, yeah
I will deliver to you”

To one another in every place
Who speak like brothers and leave no trace
Of a world still divided by tongues now
Yeah, the world's still divided by tongues
You want to keep it closer now, don't you
But there are words that speak to everyone
Which I will deliver to you, yeah
I will deliver to you, yeah
I will deliver to you

Strumpet eye, eye, eye
Draw below
Hey, she got me to go

Every hand grabs
Every moment
Can I see you, strumpet eye?

Strumpet eye
Dig a rare earth angel gone

Strumpet eye
Was cheated in a romance
Strumpet eye
Can barely get into her own pants
That's what he goes with

In time
In time, yeah, strumpet eye
Strumpet eye
Strumpet eye

Strumpet eye, eye, eye, eye
Draw below
Hey, she got me to go

Every hand grabs
Every moment
Can I see you, strumpet eye?

Strumpet eye
Strumpet eye
Strumpet eye
Strumpet eye
Dig a rare earth angel gone

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

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)

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

I am an earthworm following
There is a nighthawk watching me
Crawling

La la la la, it's a lonely night
I'll take the airwaves home tonight
Crawl with me into the hole
Where everyone can hide

We're in the wormhole
Seeking to be safe again
Without a single brave soul peeking out
Tonight
Tonight

After the fire, there's a falling rain
Washing us free from the daily pain
Off the hook and down the drain
And out to the other side

To where the soil is rich and muddy
In the riverbed
Feed on the urgent promise of the dead
Tonight
Tonight

Tonight

Wrecking now
I could say no way
But she's calling out my vice
Wrecking now
And so I'm through with you

She's bleeding now
She's receiving now
She's defeating now - wrecking

Wrecking now
Turning on all the boys
And the boys have lost
their heads
Wrecking now
And so I'm through with you

She's bleeding now
She's receiving now
She's defeating now - wrecking

She's wrecking - wrecking
She's wrecking

Zoo Pie
All I ever wanted by you
Was to be a man

Get by
Every cop I beg I will stand

Come on baby do it
To me you can do it
I've already a plan

But zoo pie
All I ever wanted by you


Come on baby do it
To me you can do it
I know that you can

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.....

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

Fly into ashes a hole
They will polish you brightly wherever you go
Their ashes come true
They'll bring knowledge unto you wherever you know
Unofficial study guides will help you when you're ready boy
Superficial lacerations they won't hurt you
Exert you into growing out

Fly into ashes a hole
They will follow you into wherever you flow
To ashes so slow that the knowledge you acquire to help you
Ceilings now are clawing gold
They need something reverent and bold
Holding out for the heaven to unfold

Unofficial study guides will help you when you're ready boy
Superficial lacerations they won't hurt you
Exert you into growing out
Ceilings now are clawing gold
They need something reverent and bold
Holding out for the heaven to unfold

Every street is dark and folding
Out mysteriously
Where lies the chance we take
To be always working, reaching out for
A hand that we can't see
Everybody's gotta hold on hope
It's the last thing that's holding me

Invitiation to the last dance
Then it's time to leave
But that's the price we pay
When we deceive one another, animal mother
She opens up for free
Everybody's gotta hold on hope
It's the last thing that's holding me

Look at the talkbox
In mute frustration
At the station
There hides the cowboy

Look at the talkbox
In mute frustration
At the station
There hides the cowboy
His campfire flickering
On the landscape

That nothing grows on
But time still goes on
Through each life of misery
Everybody's gotta hold on hope
It's the last thing that's holding me

Everybody's gotta hold on hope
It's the last thing that's holding me

Everybody's gotta hold on hope
It's the last thing that's holding me

She's got the face
She's got the face that makes me happy
I never thought about how lovely it was
Until one day she went over and out
Over and out
Over and out
When will she come back to me
Over and out

She's a disgrace
She's a disgrace to friends and family
I never thought about how lucky I was
Until one day she went over and out
Over and out
Over and out
When will she come back to me
Over and out

It's time for a round
Some times I cry for the sane
The sane worth speaking of
Electric misery
Like lightning flashing about
In conversation
No need to call him out
Believe your intuition
How is it you want him to be
Vivid and psychic
Inventing new clich?
In you not happiness nor hope
These gifts do not matter now
The hurtful gifts we bring
Subject to prop and plan we have to nominate a signal we can understand
By now the naked entrants aren't who we need
Beneath the hollow tree in gratitude I'm waking up to cut my deal

Oh, tropical robots
When you come of age you'll reach the sun
And when you go away you won't come back no more
Alabama policeman.. let them go on their way
Don't spoil their fun
Cause when they go away they wont go back no more

Good morning finger
Approximate a plan
To sell another t shirt
So how's your head hurt
And what's to understand
Of elevated teachers
You like a metal fan
On high at times
So go protruding hands
In aerospace arena
Interference dead
Let it go you don't need it anyhow
All at your finger tip selection-fly in all directions now!
Let it go you don't need it anyhow
All at your finger tip selection-fly in all directions now!

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

The Enemy


Look me straight
Now blame it on loneliness
Who knows?
Certainly not them

Where is this?
The lane that takes you head on
But for now
You do not, cannot contemplate
Certainly not you

And silence is dread
'Cause look what you've done
Aligned outside no aim
Which follows me
Painted over a well cleansed abdomen
Tattooed ugly and blue
The enemy

Watch and wait
A childproof survival kit
Just for a glimpse
Of the everlasting big kick

Secrets bleeding to untold families
Lovers in flight over the gravesite
We become statues
In a ten acre garden
..

Under the iron shop
The farewell ladies wink
Always promising
No one to crush them
Always pokerfaced before bingo
Does it snap or just happen?

But a queen's prize awaits
She might rub her legs
But a queen's prize awaits

Currently fabulous
And perhaps at last
The song you sing will have meaning

But a queen's prize awaits
She might rub her legs
But a queen's prize awaits
She might rub her legs

But a queen's prize awaits
She might rub her legs
But a queen's prize awaits
She might rub her legs

It was sure fine to see you
Delicious and thank you for coming
There is nowhere to go but up
You know that for I tell you

All of our friends are thinking about us
The cup is running over
I am hypnotizing the highway
I am baptizing mad rivers

And the rivers run wild
And the highway is long
It was so good to see you
You know that for I tell you

Frostman says the summer needs to wait for you
Frostman says the wintertime is blue
Oh, frostman I'm with you
Even when the sun shines
Even when the winter comes

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

Pivotal film
Showing cloaks of rubber
Digital relay
Fingers stroking

Like mechanical lover
Critical rooms
Transparent scenes shifting

Pivotal film
Selling out your monkey
Sinful heroes
Stabbing, choking
(They must be joking)

Like mechanical lover
Critical rooms
Transparent scenes shifting

Grotesque and arrogant
Perfect for the experts
Top gold
It's cold in the morning
Where scenesters exit
Into thin air

In the midst of this effort
Courageous tongues are bitter
Don't blast them
Bring posters and broadcast
Not a public display
But a new secret
Come there to pretend
Bring your children
Allow them to watch to the end

Before most of us knew it
Contagious words have bitten
Don't use them
Don't post them for broadcast
Keep then private and away
Like an old weapon
Come here on command
Like good children
Allow us to watch 'til to the end

Cigarette lifter
The frozen violins
Solid movement

Privately

Think of a no parking zone
Where armored cars keep the street
And every heart seeks inspiration
It is full to maximum capacity

Leave your things in the streets
And run wild

Wooden heads on the chopping block
And other hearts pumping ink
That spills out over dreams of antiquity
Pale but full of ghostly charm

Leave your things in the streets
And run wild

Sister, I need wine
For color in my skin
And darkness for my eyes
But I can see the light burn through
Still it is the night brings me to you

Sister, use your gift
The backed up river spreads
On ground for fighting words
And I am hating the ignorance in my body
And I can't feed on the heaviness
Sister, I need you

And we will dance for gold
And straddle the hour of fear
And learn the real story
Drink the truth
Shed not one tear

Reinvented nightly
Wake up with skills like this
And do you want me in your head?
But what's behind your scattered eyesigns?
I want to reinvent you now

Fifty hats and bargain suits
We will wear them if we must
But who would be a human boot
To kick the wave of current hotlines?
I want to reinvent you now
I want to reinvent you now

Reinvent you nightly
Reinvite you rightly
I'll reunite you
Come on

Reinvented nightly
Wake up with skills like this
And do you want me in your head?
But what's behind your scattered eyesigns?
I want to reinvent you now

I want to reinvent you now
I want to reinvent you now
I want to reinvent you now

Twilight campfighter
You build your fire into an open wound
You want us to feel better
On these darker trails
With light revealing holy grails
To hike through dangerous weather
You need twilight eyes

Sunspot solider, you come from another day
Accept no pay
You want us to feel better
All for longing causes
Racing minds and lengthy pauses
All who must soon shed their veils
And wipe their eyes

As we vegetate and wait around for brighter days
And can dance contented to the sound of money
Could I have seen a sight
Much greater than your twilight eyes
That penetrate your silent lives (lies)

Twilight campfighter
We do congratulate
It's not too late
To make us all feel better
Under darker skies
With your twilight eyes

Even when you're lifted by the lie
Heaven sent and gifted-ask them why
Never give it all up-never try
All their hearts are breaking

Unspirited
The less than life you live
The lessons make you lame, boy
the same, boy
Everywhere that you go, I'm with you now

When you lose it all, you'll think of me
When you take the fall, you'll drink to me
I'm the one who did it painlessly
I'm the one that does it

Unspirited
The less than life you live
The lessons make you lame, boy
the same, boy
Everywhere that you go, I'm with you now

Want One


I have a positive hot gift
Want one?
A scoffer's clutch karma issue
Want one?
A nursery whip for men who skip
Want one?
Want one?..

Living the dream of kings before children
Come inside I'll show you
A ticket to sugar pie
Yeah, I want one
A lesson before you die
Hey gimme one
Hey I want one
Hey gimme one

(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)

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

(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

(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

(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)

(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...

(R. Pollard)

I am breathing, yet I feel no sky
Things without wings have begun to fly
Unhitched trailers---I see trailers trail
From the well i pull an empty pail
Little man bleeding, little heart beating so
Evil speaker blow my circuits---oh no
Brothers, sisters---all transistors, you know
Father logic sometimes gets cosmic, you know

(R. Pollard-Sprout)

She's slender
Oh, she's cream
She's face
I took her from place to place
I moved her from room to room
I exploited her
Became the groom
So I write music for soundtracks now
I write music for soundtracks now
(That's what I wanted to do anyhow)

I took her from place to place
I took her from room to room
So I know, yeah...

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

(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!