Universal Truths and Cycles
Guided by Voices
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Wire Greyhounds
00 : 35
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Skin Parade
02 : 57
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Zap
01 : 14
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Christian Animation Torch Carriers
03 : 54
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Cheyenne
02 : 58
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The Weeping Bogeyman
01 : 35
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Back to the Lake
02 : 33
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Love 1
00 : 54
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Storm Vibrations
04 : 59
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Factory of Raw Essentials
01 : 25
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Everywhere With Helicopter
02 : 36
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Pretty Bombs
03 : 06
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Eureka Signs
03 : 06
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Wings of Thorn
02 : 10
15
Car Language
04 : 44
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From a Voice Plantation
02 : 06
17
The IDs Are Alright
01 : 10
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Universal Truths and Cycles
02 : 19
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Father Sgt. Christmas Card
02 : 04
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Track Lyrics
Wire Greyhounds Lyrics
3 ContributorsWire Greyhounds LyricsThis song debuted live in February 2002, a few months before the album’s release, and remained a setlist staple throughout 2002 and 2003.My tongue that moves slow
A minute before the evil street
Breath woman captures a ghost
Blurring sweat heads eat noodlestuff
Sit up and beg
For slivers of language
That the night air might offer
Pin back your ears and feed
Alright
Cheyenne Lyrics
[Verse 1]
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, is paradox in suicide
Cheyenne in white
[Chorus]
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
[Solo]
[Chorus]
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
[Verse 2]
Cheyenne, a drama not acted out
Cheyenne, in destiny, stay gazing
Cheyenne, in witnessing, if I'm to miss
[Refrain]
Cheyenne in white
Cheyenne in white
Cheyenne in white
Cheyenne in white
Cheyenne in white
Cheyenne in white
Cheyenne in white
Cheyenne in white
Cheyenne...
Back to the Lake Lyrics
[Verse 1]
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
[Chorus]
Pick up
For God's sake
When we call you
Back to the lake
[Verse 2]
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
[Chorus]
To pick up?
For God's sake
When we call you
Back to the lake
[Chorus]
Oh, pick up
For God's sake
When we call you
Back to the lake
[Outro]
Make no mistake
We will call you
Back to the lake
Everywhere With Helicopter Lyrics
[Intro]
Everywhere with helicopter
[Verse 1]
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
[Chorus]
Everywhere with helicopter
Hard to follow when I'm slow
Everywhere with helicopter
Sending off where lightning goes
(Oh no!)
[Verse 2]
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
[Chorus]
Everywhere with helicopter
Hard to swallow when I'm slow
Everywhere with helicopter
Sending off where lightning ghosts
[Chorus]
Everywhere with helicopter
Everywhere with helicopter
Sending off where lightning goes
Wings of Thorn Lyrics
[Verse 1]
My lonely mile
Is charming from above
Do not run, my love
No one is harming you
[Chorus]
Why do you dream
Of strange men in aeroplanes
And parachutes torn
By wings of thorn?
[Verse 2]
Your lovely smile
Should not be touched
Do not sip this poison
No one is hunting, no fox and no horn
[Chorus]
Why do you fear
What takes to the air
Before it is borne
On wings of thorn?
On wings of thorn, yeah
From a Voice Plantation Lyrics
[Verse 1]
I, who no longer can listen
I saw a gusty wind
Come up to listen
Before I was ten
And all of the evil grids
From a hill where rats consider, oh
[Verse 2]
And they gang, and they topple
And they send a smoke ring
Into the onion field
A ghost!
And this can make you choke
Coming from the throat of a ghost!
And sent to my weak knees from a voice plantation
All in together, in terror
The IDs Are Alright Lyrics
3 ContributorsThe Ids Are Alright LyricsThis song was debuted live in April 2002 and played live through 2002 and again in fall 2003. Its final performance was in November 2003.How did I get to know ya?
How could I not?
All the time linking crimes in progress with previous foul-ups
And we know secrets and perfect cures
And once the answer to all of God's problems
Escaped us as quickly as it came
But that's okay because all things happen
Father Sgt. Christmas Card Lyrics
[Verse]
Fight me, fight me in practice
Up from a squelch
A ten point power plant
No planning a rant, you get a clear man
Hunting a heart
Backed away in his pig
Father Sgt. Christmas card
Gone jogging
Gumming the fun tunnel
And answer to no one
And not knowing this
So God bless you
Continue to speak
[Outro]
Oh, God bless you
Fa-la-la-la-la
Oh, God bless you
Fa-la-la-la-la-la
Oh, God bless you
Fa-la-la-la-la-la
Oh, God bless you
Fa-la-la-la-la-la
Oh, God bless you
Fa-la-la-la-la-la
Oh, God bless you
Fa-la-la-la-la-la
Oh, God bless you
Fa-la-la-la-la-la
Oh, God bless you
Fa-la-la-la-la-la
Oh, God bless you