Cool Planet by Guided by Voices - Album Lyrics & Tracks

[Verse 1]

Authoritarian zoo

I hear they're coming for you

A private animal's gimp, now it's regarding your limp

But tell me what can you do?

 

But you went AWOL for days

And you were starting a phase

And being first on the list, getting the animals pissed

Authoritarian zoo

They'll throw a net over you

 

[Chorus]

Time out for screaming

They're not willing to never mind

Leave a bad number

And go running 'cause they're gunning for you

Authoritarian zoo

 

[Verse 2]

An excruciating silent battle

Hiding in the hills

Waiting, eating, stabbing on

But they'll be grabbing you

 

[Chorus]

Time out for screaming

They're not willing to never mind

Leave a bad number

And go running 'cause they're gunning for you

 

 

Time out for screaming

They're not willing to never mind

Leave a bad number

And go running 'cause they're gunning for you

 

[Outro]

Authoritarian zoo

Authoritarian zoo

Authoritarian zoo

2 ContributorsCostume Makes the Man LyricsPost-cigarette, straight thing, crowd

The training film was really loud

 

Now it takes forever, just that

Taking a photograph, losing one's hat

 

Last cigarette, strange and old, bereft

Killing the letter, I left

 

Now it takes forever, I just said

Shooting the cable or losing one’s head

Losing one's head

Losing one's head

Losing one’s head

Losing one's head

2 ContributorsHat of Flames LyricsPutting it all in place

Coming from service town

Wearing a hat of flames

You may see him, imaging

 

Blowing a dangerous path

Saying the words out loud

Some are lost and have you not

Seen him burning?

 

A magic code

To the vibrating masses

Devoured, you go in public

There he goes

In a hat of flames

 

A magic code

To the vibrating masses

Devoured, you go in public

There he goes!

 

There he goes

In a hat of flames

2 ContributorsThese Dooms LyricsThese dooms

A hurried birdseye

At sturgeon temple

A ceiling desk

For abused hypocrites

The pleasure checkpoints

To pass through

You technically win the race

 

These dooms

On lucrative turf

Pinning down

The red nails with red nails

In deluxe precision

Teaching the life cycle

Slowing down the sacrifice

Reflected

Undone

In jungle patterns

[Verse 1: Robert Pollard]

Ask the rising sun

I'll take a curtain

Demanding a cap

Ripples upon the shelf

 

Truly cloudy

And guess again

An unusual illusion

A package where you get every game

 

[Outro]

Every game, every game, every game

Every game, every game, every game (Where you get)

Every game, every game, every game (A package)

Every game, every game, every game (A package)

Every game, every game, every game (A package)

Every game, every game, every game (A package)

Every game, every game, every game (A package)

Every game, every game, every game (A package)

Every game, every game, every game (A package)

Every game, every game, every game (A package)

Every game, every game, every game

2 ContributorsPan Swimmer LyricsPan swimmer, the legs move

Pan swimmer, the heart grooves

Like sun baked cakes on northern lakes

The new Virgin Mary is looking for you

Looking for you

Looking for you

Looking for you

 

Ink runner, I'm on this page

Think summer in the milky ways

Like ice cream cherries, the new Virgin Marys

On northern sky mountains, are looking at you

Looking at you

Looking at you

Looking at you

Looking at you

4 ContributorsThe Bone Church LyricsI am sad

For my soldier friends

Assuming this is last rites

Calm insane

Into my cold hands

And breed your coping darling

Come on, taste it

Free your weak-link bleeding

Breathing

Breathing

Breathe it out to say

Know your pieces of fate

Watch yourself in dam

Watch yourself in dam

[Chorus: Robert Pollard]

Bad love is easy to do

Every night, every night

Bad love is easy to do

Every night, every night

Bad love is easy to do

Every night, every night

Bad love is easy to do

Every night

 

[Verse 1: Robert Pollard]

Protectors of investment plans

Are rightful in their arms

Beauty queens and dream machines

Are never wrong

 

[Chorus: Robert Pollard]

Bad love is easy to do

Every night, every night

Bad love is easy to do

Every night

 

[Verse 2: Tobin Sprout & Robert Pollard]

Look you may see

Good love is hard as a wild oak tree

Preachers of light, creatures of night

Good love, bad love, good love, bad love

Right

 

 

[Chorus: Robert Pollard]

Bad love is easy to do

Every night, every night

Bad love is easy to do

Every night

 

[Verse 2: Tobin Sprout & Robert Pollard]

Look you may see

Good love is hard as a wild oak tree

Preachers of light, creatures of night

Good love, bad love, good love, bad love

Right

 

[Outro: Tobin Sprout & Robert Pollard]

Look you may know

Good good love

Good good good love

Good good good good good good love

2 ContributorsThe No Doubters LyricsWhen you find out who's looking

They may rip your heart out

Always one new condition

When you guess the game

It's always the same

 

The no doubters

Are doers and shouters

It's done in a concentrated brain

And it's always the same

 

When you find out who's looking

Do not protest

What hits the spot

And who does not

It's always the same

 

The no doubters

Are doers and shouters

It's done in a concentrated brain

And it's always the same

 

It's always a long shot

And it's always a short shot

But it's always a no doubter

It's always a no doubter

It's always a no doubter

It's always a no doubter

Yeah, it's always a no doubter

It's always a no doubter

Yeah, it's always a no doubter

Always a no doubter

Always a no doubter

2 ContributorsNarrated by Paul LyricsTake my life, I'm going

Take my arms, I'm shaking

She's the one that breaks away

 

Take my life, I'm showing

Take my arms, I'm breaking

She's the one that sailed away again

3 ContributorsMales of Wormwood Mars LyricsMental life in the public health department

You're with it, I need to be outta sight

 

They wrote as if nature itself had commanded

Get with it or we have your number

 

The ultimate surface map

Bearing familiar objects

Country space menage

We have your rope, enough of it

 

Throw down your magic and give up, you're under arrest

Make ahead go back, and do no longer hack on

 

The loser's grip is filled with modern poets

You're in it, the best seat in the river

 

In the black puddle of stars

In the torso of a snake

From romantic Earth forms

The visitor reveals his knowledge to us now

His many contacts, a drop of secret blood

Of anything to be part

We shall strive, skinned alive

We shall strive, skinned alive

We shall strive, skinned alive

4 ContributorsTicket to Hide LyricsHere we are

Breaking gold again

Finding a ticket to hide

It comes with solitude

Made of brave windows

Come to mind

Guarding on wind

Breaking golden

 

Here we are

Making gold again

Binding a ticket to hide

It comes with solitude

Made of brave windows

Come to mind

Guarding on wind

Breaking golden

 

It might get louder

It might get louder

It might get louder

It might get louder