Half Smiles of the Decomposed
Guided by Voices
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Everybody Thinks I'm a Raincloud (When I'm Not Looking)
03 : 21
2
Sleep Over Jack
03 : 05
3
Girls of Wild Strawberries
02 : 30
4
Gonna Never Have to Die
02 : 18
5
Window of My World
02 : 58
6
The Closets of Henry
02 : 31
7
Tour Guide for the Winston Churchill Memorial
03 : 02
8
Asia Minor
02 : 24
9
Sons of Apollo
04 : 05
10
Sing for Your Meat
04 : 04
11
Asphyxiated Circle
02 : 50
12
A Second Spurt of Growth
02 : 46
13
(S)mothering and Coaching
03 : 21
14
Huffman Prairie Flying Field
03 : 14
15
The Mind Refuser
05 : 35
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Track Lyrics
Gonna Never Have to Die Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Be a motorcycle
Be a getaway car
Be a house of sparrows
I am waiting, this is where you are
[Chorus 1]
Thinking about the lines that cross the sky
Mine for you and I
Never have to die
[Verse 2]
I have plans engaging
All of these points connecting one
My trap is simple
I will forgive you for all you've never done
[Chorus 2]
Lessons of the crimes of sick and tried
In a forest crucified
You're gonna never have to die
[Solo]
Window of My World Lyrics
[Verse 1]
In the window of my world, I see the sunlight
I see the moonlight crashing through my world
Yeah, in the window of my world, I pry a mystery
Projecting my misery in the window of my world, in my world
[Verse 2]
A wall once blocked my view and I couldn't move it
Got bruises to prove it and maybe I was hurt
But I don't make myself to blame, I broke a small light
Make everything alright in the window of my world, in my world
[Chorus]
Give me your number
Give not my freedom to release you
Seek me in slumber
Take me in words that so complete you
Touch me in worlds that I might reach you
[Solo]
[Chorus]
Give me your number
Give not my freedom to release you
Seek me in slumber
Take me in words that so complete you
Touch me in worlds that I might reach you
[Verse 3]
In the window of my world, a heart's birth brings meaning
Kicking and screaming in the window of my world
Yeah, in the window of my world, shoulder to shoulder
I'm feeling bolder, crashing through my world, in my world
Asia Minor Lyrics
[Verse 1]
As quickly as the August you arrived
Miles from everywhere and still survived
Some of the time quite lost, find your spot
[Verse 2]
The mind that builds the soul must form a face
A character and ego out of place
Other times a target on your mark
[Pre-Chorus 1]
Seek not for to rehabilitate
Try hard to stop and not stop to concentrate
[Chorus]
And nothing could be finer, yeah
In Asia Minor, yeah
The devil in the china, yeah
[Verse 3]
As slowly as the January snow
Miles from everywhere and you should know
The part that you hate and like, hate to like
[Pre-Chorus 2]
Be prepared for what's lurking outside
I am poised with silver bullets
[Chorus]
But nothing could be finer, yeah
In Asia Minor, yeah
The devil in the china, yeah
Sons of Apollo Lyrics
[Intro]
"And just when it appears there's going to be a successful campaign against smut, just when the Supreme Court seems to be ruling against pornography, when it appears the nation is returning to old-fashioned moral standards, suddenly the floodgates are going to swing open and Satan is going to vomit filth out of Hell, and it'll be just as it was in the days of Lot, and will vex the souls of God's most devoted, devout saints."
[Verse]
The archers have grown
Bending on back
To the new accuracy
Shoot for white hearts
Ugly supreme
Beating their flags with hiss
[Chorus]
Coming of age
To the new day of running
[Verse]
The archers have grown
Bending on back
To the new accuracy
Shoot for white hearts
Ugly supreme
Beating their flags with hiss
[Solo]
[Chorus]
Coming of age
To the new day of running
To the new day of running
To the new day of running
To the new day of running
[Outro]
I go free today, no way
I go free today, every day
I go free today, yeah
I go free today
(S)mothering and Coaching Lyrics
[Intro]
Make them go 'way
They seem so low
They seem so low
Make them go 'way
[Verse 1]
There and always shopping, never think to stopping us
When they meet us down the road
Frequently for squeezing anything to pleasing them
When they trap us in our homes down the road
[Verse 2]
You tear your childhood down from the cheekbone
You sell me down when you tell me you'll never
Spend days unfazed, not to tell me, "I love you"
[Verse 3]
And they might not be failing solo
And they might not be playing for the team
What team?
And so they're moving out in circles
To know themselves in life and pleasant dreams
Whose dreams?
[Verse 4]
Baby, don't go
We'll miss you so much
This is your home
Baby, don't go
Huffman Prairie Flying Field Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Visit mysterious fields, see them with small courage
There you will come to a bird, she may scream the word
[Chorus]
But if that's what you think you've heard
Then what's what you heard
And if that's what you want to hear
Then that's what I will tell you
[Verse 2]
Black without warning, the storm and the morning star
It's look! We are angels on wires from a pregnant sky
[Chorus]
And if that's where you think you'll go
Then that's where you'll go
And if that's what you want to feel
Then that's what I will sell you
[Bridge]
And now I've come back, translucent and peeled
At Huffman Prairie Flying Field
I've come to start up my head
Been closed and locked up
For far too long
For far too long
For far too long, hey
For far too long
For far too long
For far too long
For far too long
For far too long
The Mind Refuser Lyrics
[Verse]
If you think you're feeling any better
Why not live with it for a while?
Using words that could upset her
Downgrading in their shape and style
[Chorus]
Responding in like kind
Refusing the mind
[Bridge]
It's not in your face
It's not a race we're in
[Solo]
[Verse]
If you think you're feeling any better
Why not live with it for a while?
Using words that might upset her
Downgrading in their shape and style
[Chorus]
Responding in like kind
Refusing the mind
[Break]
[Outro]
Three cheers for the mind refuser
Three cheers for the mind refuser
Three cheers for the mind refuser
Three cheers for the mind refuser
Three cheers for the mind refuser
Three cheers for the mind refuser
Three cheers for the mind refuser
Three cheers for the mind refuser
Three cheers for the mind refuser
Three cheers for the mind refuser
Three cheers for the mind refuser
Three cheers for the mind refuser
Three cheers for the mind refuser
Three cheers for the mind refuser
Three cheers for the mind refuser
Three cheers for the mind refuser
Three cheers for the mind refuser
Three cheers for the mind refuser
Three cheers for the mind refuser