Guided By Voices

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

What of the blessings
Of the tired arms waiting for more?
At times and if you sleep
And the pressure is then off
Where has it gone?

What blazing white giant
Pulls off the darkness?
Is it good for you
To ask for assistance?
And to ask for it for others also?
Next time you get sick you'll know
You might even see
You might even see
You'll see

To see you sight unseen is worse
Then pick you up because you're first
And go where the whistle blows
And go where the captain knows
Is just a lie

To train the bear to not get up
Slay the beast and win the cup
And stay with the sweet flesh prize
A necklace of 50 eyes
Is yours to keep

Time to say to you, my child
Your name is Wild
And if you called me in
To change the color
Your name is Wild
And I'll be taking you soon now
To read the orange signs

And I say now to you, “So what?”
The useless fade in time
You chose me to read you no lies
Hooray for the day
And I'll pray for the angels to keep you, my child
You are safer now
God knows it, too

Time to say to you, my child
Your name is Wild
And if you called me in
To change the color
Your name is Wild
And I'll be taking you soon now
To read the orange signs

And I say now to you, “So what?”
The useless fade in time
You chose me to read you no lies
Hooray for the day
And I'll pray for the angels to keep you, my child
You are safer now
God knows it, too

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

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

My lonely mile
Is charming from above
Do not run my love
No one is harming you

Why do you dream
Of strange men in aeroplanes
And parachutes torn
By wings of thorn?

Your lovely smile
Should not be touched
Do not sip this poison
No one is hunting
No fox and no horn

Why do you fear
What takes to the air
Before it is borne
On wings of thorn?

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

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 all right
In the window of my world, in my world

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

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

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
And I'm feeling bolder
Crashing through my world, in my world

Turning
And burning
Then cooling
Now living born
Fill the stars

In me
And now me
And hear me
And know me
My will so far
And then I recall
Caveman

Child I'm coming
To show you
And know you
And warm your heart
Don't let them tell you
To send me away
And just wave us apart
Come in from the cold
Can you?
And then I recall
Caveman

Slash forward through all suffocate
Do you enjoy coming down with the hate?
Generation X lies in it's sleep
Innocent as angels next to generation Z

In dreamhouse I once was untraced
Visible in screamhouse a new practice space
The chill gets you losing again
Incidentally which pill will you be choosing again?

If you want some
If you need some
Just go talk to her

But we won't apologize for the human race

Inksmears on the meat of my mind
Analyze and obviate disasters grand
Redemption to "get saved quick" kit
Safe to bet you'd sacrifice your children for it

If you want some
If you need some
Just go ask for her
But we won't apologize for the human race
We won't apologize for the humans

I'm awaken
To the sound of a deafening horn
I'm shaken
By the creak of an opening door

As the waves crash around me

I'm breaking
Cracking my heavenly bones
And a vision
Of a vision won't leave me alone

I'm falling
But the ground keeps falling away
I can see you
But I couldn't say where you are

As the waves crash around me

Watch me jumpstart as the old skin is peeled
See an opening and bust into the field
Hidden longings no longer concealed

Watch me bulldoze every bulldozer away
Each new obstacle from each old new day
Where it's going it's hard for me to say

And shoot me down
And bring me down
But I won't be around
As you run from the places you love
I remember the faces that cry
And they're pulling me back so I have to die

And watch me jumpstart at the first light of day
Each new sensation just blows me away
Don't look now, don't look now, I'm a phase

Straight from ground zero, X marks the spot
I can't pretend to be something I'm not
'Cause I'm supernova, erect and white hot

And shoot me down
And bring me down
But I won't be around
As you run from the places you love
I remember the faces that cry
And they're holding me back so I have to die

And watch me jumpstart I'm Maximum Jack
Shot through the cosmos like an alien attack
Film finished, fade into black

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

These times useless inventions
Satisfy inquiring minds
What about a piece of pretentions
In production of new schemes?
Realize a world of quick fix dreams.
Come on and purchase the new one
Be the first to strap it on
Lose antiquated fixations
That you cannot leave about
For a nice try change this model out

Feed on a stroke of brilliance sometimes
To cover up the oldness in your eyes
From noticing the coldness in our lives
Don't know if it's a miracle or a curse
Maybe we can help you to feel worse

These days useless inventions
Simplify or complicate
You've got the keys to the kingdom
That through which you could remove
That from small beginnings must improve

Feed on a stroke of brilliance sometimes
To cover up the oldness in your eyes
From noticing the coldness in our lives
Don't know if it's a miracle or a curse
Maybe we can help you to feel worse
Tap the curiosity of your youth
Are you seeking dead or taking truth?
Never knowing what will come up next
Will it be the panic switch or select?

Well, it's too late to change your connection
Didn't even get through inspection
Copyright divine interventions
Getting tired of useless inventions
Getting tired of useless inventions
Getting tired of useless inventions
Getting tired of useless inventions
Getting tired of useless inventions

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

As the icy breeze is shattered
By speaking to us warmly
To the nation of duress
And God yes, it's a mess

We know this and that
The romantic soul for us
In the lost hierarchy of land
And landowners
And down will go back up forevermore
I must try to believe this

And if I may consider
To look out from an opening
Of freshly painted lines
And letter perfect designs

For we know this and that
The romantic soul for us
In the lost hierarchy of land
And landowners
And down will go back up forevermore
I must try to believe this

Once she was down and she opened
A crate of secrets darker than she
Underwater explosions
Curtains rippling obviously

She can breathe
Since I’ve been tired, she can breathe
And the shocks are bound to please
And she points to me

To insist
On facing the salt and it stings
And certainly that changes things
And she points to me

Cups painted orange and sunburst
Lined up side by side, keeps them so clean
Brightly they shine in the starlight
But darker places I’ve never seen

She can breathe
Since I’ve been tired, she can breathe
And the shocks are bound to please
And she points to me

To insist
On facing the salt and it stings
And certainly that changes things
And she points to me
Sometimes passes through me

And the sound will carry you on
And the sound will carry you on

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!

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

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

Why is it every time I think about you
Something that you have said or implied makes
me doubt you
Then I look into your cynical eyes and I know it
As if it never meant anything to me

Parallel lines on a slow decline - tractor rape chain
Better yet, let's all get wet on the tractor rape chain
Speed up, slow down, go all around in the end

In the first place it's probably just paranoia
But there's a ghost in my room
And he says I better run
It's a thing I know - it's a thing I believe in
Won't you tell it to go away?

Parallel lines on a slow decline - tractor rape chain
Better yet, let's all get wet on the tractor rape chain
Speed up, slow down, go all around in the end
Speed up, slow down, go all around in the end...

Why is it every time I think about you
Something that you have said or implied makes
me doubt you
Then I look into your cynical eyes and I know it
As if it never meant anything to me

Parallel lines on a slow decline - tractor rape chain
Better yet, let's all get wet on the tractor rape chain
Speed up, slow down, go all around in the end

In the first place it's probably just paranoia
But there's a ghost in my room
And he says I better run
It's a thing I know - it's a thing I believe in
Won't you tell it to go away?

Parallel lines on a slow decline - tractor rape chain
Better yet, let's all get wet on the tractor rape chain
Speed up, slow down, go all around in the end
Speed up, slow down, go all around in the end...

Oh, she's so on top of things
Gone out but so looking within
She's got her heart pressed to the ground
To extend her knowledge
And I'll spend my life with her now

She dreams of sleeping now
And how she can take me inside
And now it's warm and cold
All around

Be on top of me now
Be on top of me now
She already is
As far from you crying now
The longest day dying now

So I guess some truth belongs to us
In places that tremble and wish
And a citizen of there am I
She comes to play along

Be on top of me now
Be on top of me now
She already is
As far from you crying now
The longest day dying now

Time is slow without you now
I wanna know about you now

It's all in me now
It's all in me now
It's all in me now
Citizen of there am I of
All me now
It's all in me now
It's all in me now
Citizen of there am I

To remake the young flyer
Yes, we must define his high desire
Stand erect and not detect
The anythings that we could not admire

From a long line of highmen
Number one, is that the one to send?
To restore all the trial
This and then the national pride, so proud

A question to the lunatic
Does your day seem like night?
Does your world go to heaven?

Gallant men dash forth
He takes his place
He ends the laughter of the slaughter daughters
Takes his softness from his hand and goes

To remake the young flyer
Yes, we must define his high desire

To remake the young flyer
Yes, we must define his high desire
Stand erect and not detect
The anythings that we could not admire

From a long line of highmen
Number one, is that the one to send?
To restore all the trial
This and then the national pride, so proud

A question to the lunatic
Does your day seem like night?
Does your world go to heaven?

Gallant men dash forth
He takes his place
He ends the laughter of the slaughter daughters
Takes his softness from his hand and goes

To remake the young flyer
Yes, we must define his high desire

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

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

“Make It” comes alive
In my private glass tent, oh yeah
A portable mortuary
Going
Going
But not yet gone

‘Cause when it does
It does, and then
The ancient practice
Of mourning the phantom
Do you really think he
Would choose to inhabit the pore
Where his container was planted?

Can't imagine that

How's your life and cycles?
Compared to your next rival?
A '69 revival?
A '005 survival?

Then disregard unthinkable
And be like the unsinkable Fats Domino

And tell it all around them
Above the swell they found him
On common grounds that drown them
No higher than the fountains

Of water not so drinkable
Except to the unsinkable Fats Domino

Animals sound the trumpets
Wimpy crowns will know
Silence will sink the carpet
Saints will drink and move too slow
They'll be too drunk to know

Beyond normal abilities
And nuclear facilities
It's where the search them found him
It's where we'd like to meet you

The water is undrinkable
Except for the unsinkable Fats Domino
So be light and unsinkable
Make disbelief unthinkable

How's your life and cycles?
Compared to your next rival?
A '69 revival?
A '005 survival?

Then disregard unthinkable
And be like the unsinkable Fats Domino

And tell it all around them
Above the swell they found him
On common grounds that drown them
No higher than the fountains

Of water not so drinkable
Except to the unsinkable Fats Domino

Animals sound the trumpets
Wimpy crowns will know
Silence will sink the carpet
Saints will drink and move too slow
They'll be too drunk to know

Beyond normal abilities
And nuclear facilities
It's where the search them found him
It's where we'd like to meet you

The water is undrinkable
Except for the unsinkable Fats Domino
So be light and unsinkable
Make disbelief unthinkable

(R. Pollard)

I resign myself to the resource
That is unless I can't go out
Should I concede?
Sell yourself to the man
Feel my good hand
And she flees pell-mell
So sick to have been

Though obviously not enchanted
By the people themselves
I so enjoy painting
They are of course outrageously cartoonish
In all aspects because
They are exaggerated dirt
Usually precludes
Any detailed background
There are no room left for...
I have however done several sets
Um O My!
Larger than life
I left my wife "old fat Triksey"
She is so fat it takes seven men
To help her

Well no not really
But you didn't quite imagine him
As a bored little drone of a man
In a dirty T-shirt either
Today in a world nearly devoid
Of such things as sideshows
We casually except
Most of the television
Television! Ya,
In our hearts
And our washers
That never need

Lingering heels
Clumsy with guilt
Shaking through crypts
Finding the feel
Of the room taking shape

Loveless chairs
Burned out lamps
Faking the pace
Wonderful place
And it's all taking shape
It's all taking shape in the room

Firmly rooted and quite hellbent
The old grunt packs up the hose
And pokes his nose through the old trunk trap
Hurts from years of concentration
Spent in the umpires association
Talking 'bout the next sensation
Up and coming
But now he's strumming
A buzzing one-stringer
Always quite a singer
Did his wife in the dueling banjos....

Bitter fish in crude oil sea
You don't have to bother me
You just have to join in on this song
Crawling people on your knees
Don't take this so seriously
You just have to hum it all day long

To dine alone
To build a private zone
Or trigger a synapse
And free us from our traps

You won't see me turn my back
With my head against my stack
Spitting teeth and breaking open skin
Official ironmen, you are free
Champions officially
But you won't catch me on an open chin

To dine alone
To build a private zone
Or trigger a synapse
And free us from our traps

Knockout punches for the freaks
Happy little babies with red cheeks
You will rock them gently out of sync
Confirmations through the wire
Spitting gas into the fire
Am I also worthy of a drink?

To dine alone
To build a private zone
Or trigger a synapse
And free us from our traps

Bitter fish in crude oil sea
You don't have to bother me
You just have to join in on this song
Crawling people on your knees
Don't take this so seriously
You just have to hum it all day long

To dine alone
To build a private zone
Or trigger a synapse
And free us from our traps

You won't see me turn my back
With my head against my stack
Spitting teeth and breaking open skin
Official ironmen, you are free
Champions officially
But you won't catch me on an open chin

To dine alone
To build a private zone
Or trigger a synapse
And free us from our traps

Knockout punches for the freaks
Happy little babies with red cheeks
You will rock them gently out of sync
Confirmations through the wire
Spitting gas into the fire
Am I also worthy of a drink?

To dine alone
To build a private zone
Or trigger a synapse
And free us from our traps

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 God's problems
Escaped us as quickly as it came
But that's O.K.
Because all things happen

We have found
What appears to be the head
Of the operation
Somewhat lighter
And a little smaller
Than expected

But we've not yet found the body
Of the sawed-off head
No, not yet found the head

Cold hands touching my face
Don't hide - the snake can see you
Old friends you might not remember
Fading away from you
The goldheart mountaintop queen directory
The goldheart mountaintop queen directory

And we looked
And we passed
Through the hallway of shatterproof glass

She runs through the night as if nobody cares
She screams and she cries and ignores all the stares
She wants me to come, but I'm never going there
The goldheart mountaintop queen directory
The goldheart mountaintop queen directory

Mother, feeling your hand I
Believe you and I did then
And mother, release every bad seed
The geese are leaving the trees

Exposed to winter's cold
They waited too long
But we too exaggerated
And I take the cake away
It's a long song
And I can play it so
Give me a pick now
Collector of bones

Words of smoke
Distorted, never broken
Paradise is open but I choke
One of these days when I see through the smoke
There'll be the day I get the joke

Exposed to winter's cold
They waited too long
But we too exaggerated
And I take the cake away
It's a long song
And I can play it so
Give me a pick now
Collector of bones

Words of smoke
Distorted, never broken
Paradise is open but I choke
One of these days when I see through the smoke
There'll be the day I get the joke

It's too late now
She's got me dreaming
Without you there is no truth
According to me
Inside and around me
Tears got me drinking
Without you there is no scope
In the morning for me

One of these days in the night
Old enemies will come back to fight
And since you would then disagree
We will be skinned alive
When full-colored kings arrive

And teach them we will all we know
Bring popcorn for Geronimo
And dance with our freshly made friends
Ignoring the old ones
The boring and cold ones

And when the colossus crawls west
Jazz bastards will fall and confess
We all love you so and your rock
Is paradise plastic
It's cheap and fantastic

It's too late now

Leadership functions
Providing games

For The Big Hat And Toy Show

Sparking the showroom
Eyes of concentration

At The Big Hat And Toy Show

Here we heard below
A loud pop
And it was time to go

Down stentorian halls
To the show
Like
Happy
Children go