REPOST:Liz Phair
Susan May
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@ALBUM: Exile in Guyville
Liz Phair
Matador Records, 1993
Produced by Brad Wood & Liz Phair
@SONG: 6'1"
I bet you fall in bed too easily
with the beautiful girls who are shyly brave
and you sell yourself as a man to save
that all the money in the world is not enough
I bet you've long since past understanding
what it takes to be satisfied
Like a vine that keeps climbing higher
but all the money in the world is not enough
and all the bridges blown away keep floating up
Its cold
and rough
and I kept standing 6'1" instead of 5'2"
and I loved my life
and I hated you
Its cold, out there
and rough
and I kept standing 6'1" instead of 5'2"
and I loved my life
and I hated you
@SONG: Help Me, Mary
Help me Mary, please
I've lost my home to your thieves
They bully the stereo and drink
They leave suspicious things in the sink
They make rude remarks about me
They wonder just how wild I would be
As they egg me on and keep me mad
They play me like a pit bull in a basement, and for that
I lock my door at night
I keep my mouth shut tight
I practice all my moves
I memorize their stupid rules
I make myself their friend
I show them just how far I can bend
As they egg me on and keep me mad
They play me like a pit bull in a basement, and for that
I'm asking, dear Mary please
Temper my hatred with peace
Weave my disgust into fame
And watch how fast they run to the flame
@SONG: Glory
He's got a really big tongue
it rolls way out
Snaking around in the club
It slicks you down
scratching his face like a butthole
He pulls you back
circa nineteen eighty-one
He pulls you back
You are, you are, shining some glory
You are, you are, shining some glory
on me, on me
You are, you are, shining some glory
You are, you are, shining some glory on me
@SONG: Dance of the Seven Veils
Johhny my love, get out of the business
It makes me wanna rough you up so badly
Makes me wanna roll you up in plastic
Toss you up and pump you full of lead
Johhny my love, get out of the business
the odds are getting fatter by the minute
that I have got a bright and shiny batter
and I am gonna get your heavy head
I ask because I'm a cunt in spring
You can rend me by the hour
I know all about the ugly pilgrim thing
Entertainers bring May flowers
So Johnny my love
We got us a witness
now all we gotta do is get a preacher
He can probably skip the "until death" part
Because Johnny my love you're already dead
I ask because I am a cunt in spring
You can rend me by the hour
I know all about the ugly pilgrim thing
Entertainers bring May flowers
@SONG: Never Said
(yeah)
I never said nothing
I never said nothing
I never said nothing
I never said nothing
You don't know where you heard it
Don't know who's spreadin' it 'round
All I know is I'm clean as a whistle baby
I didn't utter a sound
I never said nothing
I never said nothing
I never said nothing
I never said nothing
You don't know what they told you
Don't even care what about
All I know is I'm clean as a whistle baby
I didn't let that cat out
So don't look at me sideways
Don't even look me straight on
And don't look at my hands in my pockets, baby
I ain't done anything wrong
I never said nothing
No baby, I never said nothing
I never said nothing
I never said nothing
@SONG: Soap Star Joe
He's just a hero
In a long line of heroes
Looking for something attractive to save
They say he rode in
On the back of a pickup
And he won't leave town
'til you remember his name
He's just a hero
In a long line of heroes
Looking for some lonely billboard to grace
They say he sprung from the skull of Athena
Think about your own head
And the headache he gave
He's just a hero
In a long line of heroes
Looking for action in a price he can pay
They say he's famous
But no one can prove it
Make him an offer just to see what he'll say
Check out the dashboard lights
Glowing all green and white
He feels safe in the dark
He wears his bluejeans tight
He's just a hero
In a long line of heroes
Looking for something attractive to save
They say he rode in
On the back of a pickup
And he won't leave town
'til you remember his name
Check out the thinning hair
Check out the aftershave
Check out America
You're looking at it babe
@SONG: Explain It to Me
Head underwater
Keeps getting hotter
Give 'em your medicine
[Fame] injection
Tell them to jump higher
Tell 'em to run farther
Make 'em measure up
Decades longer than you
[Piece] it together
It's like weather
Watch him travel
Kiss the gravel
Tell him to jump higher
Tell him to run farther
Make him measure up
Ten times longer than you
Ever should, you never could
explain them to me, explain them to me
@SONG: Canary
I learn my name
I write with a number two pencil
I work up to my potential
I earn my meat
I come when called
I jump when you circle the cherry
I sing like a good canary
I come when called
I come, that's all
Send it up on fire
Death before dawn
Send it up on fire
Death before dawn
I clean the house
I put all your books in an order
I make up a colorful border
I clean my mouth
Cause froth comes out
Send it up on fire
Death before dawn
Send it up on fire
Death before dawn
@SONG: Mesmerizing
You said things I wouldn't say
Straight to my face, boy
You tossed the egg up
And I throw my hands in place, boy
After backing up as far as you could get
Don't you know nobody parts two rivers met
Don't you know I'm very happy
You know me well
I'm even happier
I like it
I like it
With all of the time in the world to spend it
Wild and unwise
I wanna be mesmerizing too
mesmerizing too
mesmerizing to you
With all of the time in the world to spend it
Wild and unwise
I wanna be mesmerizing too
mesmerizing too
mesmerizing to you
@SONG: Fuck and Run
I woke up alone
I didn't know where I was at first
Just that I woke up in your arms
And almost immediately I felt sorry
Cause I didn't think this would happen again
No matter what I could do or say
Just that I didn't think this would happen again
With or without my best intentions
What ever happened to a boyfriend
The kind of guy who tries to win you over
What ever happened to a boyfriend
The kind of guy who makes love cause he's in it, and
I want a boyfriend
I want a boyfriend
I want all that stupid old shit
like letters and sodas
letters and sodas
You got up out of bed
You said you had a lot of work to do
But I heard arrest in your head
And almost immediately I felt sorry
Cause I didn't think this would happen again
No matter what I could do or say
Just that I didn't think this would happen again
With or without my best intentions
I want a boyfriend
I want a boyfriend
I want all that stupid old shit
like letters and sodas
letters and sodas
I can feel it in my bones
I'm gonna spend another year alone
Fuck and run
Fuck and run
Even when I was seventeen
Fuck and run
Fuck and run
Even when I was twelve
You almost felt bad
You said that I should call you up but
I knew much better than that
And almost immediately I felt sorry
Cause I didn't think this would happen again
No matter what I could do or say
Just that I didn't think this would happen again
With or without my best intentions
I can feel it in my bones
I'm gonna spend my whole life alone
Fuck and run
Fuck and run
Even when I was seventeen
Fuck and run
Fuck and run
Even when I was twelve
@SONG: Girls! Girls! Girls!
You been around enough to know
That if I want to leave you better let me go
Because I take full advantage
Of every man I meet
I get away almost every day
with what the girls call
what the girls call
what the girls call . . . the girls call murder
You been around enough to see
That if you think you're it
You better check with me
Because I take full advantage
Of every man I meet
I get away almost every day
with what the girls call
what the girls call
what the girls call . . . the girls call murder
@SONG: Divorce Song
And when I asked for a separate room
It was late at night
And we been driving since noon
But if I'd known
How that would sound to you
I would have stayed in your bed
For the rest of my life
Just to prove I was right
That it's harder to be friends than lovers
And you shouldn't try to mix the two
Cause if you do it and you're still unhappy
Then you know that the problem is you
And its true that I stole your lighter
And its also true that I lost the map
But when you said that I wasn't worth talking to
I had to take your word on that
But if you'd known
How that would sound to me
You would have taken it back
And boxed it up and buried it in the ground
Boxed it up and buried it in the ground
Boxed it up and buried it in the ground
Burned it up and thrown it away
You put in my hands a loaded gun
And then you told me not to fire it
When you did the things you said were up to me
And then accused me of trying to fuck it up
But you've never been a waste of my time
It's never been a drag
So take a deep breath and count back from ten
And maybe you'll be alright
And the license said
You had to stick around until I was dead
But if you're tired of looking at my face I guess I already am
But you've never been a waste of my time
It's never been a drag
So take a deep breath and count back from ten
And maybe you'll be alright
@SONG: Shatter
I know that I don't always realize
How sleazy it is
Messing with these guys
But something about just being with you
Slapped me right in my face
Nearly broke me in two
It's a mark I
I have taken heart
And I know I will carry with me for a long long time
I don't know if I could drive a car
Fast enough to get to where you are
or wild enough not to miss that boat completely
I need, I'm fakin', baby
You know just maybe
I don't know if I could fly a plane
Well enough to tail spin out your name
Or high enough to lose control completely
I need, I'm fakin', baby
You know just maybe, maybe
@SONG: Flower
Every time I see your face
I get all wet between my legs
Every time you pass me by
I heave a sigh of pain
Every time I see your face
I think of things unpure unchaste
I want to fuck you like a dog
I'll take you home and make you like it
Everything you ever wanted
Everything you ever thought of is
Everything I'll do to you
I'll fuck you and your minions too
Your face reminds me of a flower
Kind of like you're underwater
Hair's too long and in your eyes
Your lips- a perfect suck me size
You act like you're fourteen years old
Everything you say is so
Obnoxious, funny, true and mean
I want to be your blowjob queen
You're probably shy and introspective
That's not part of my objective
I just want your fresh young jimmy
Turning slamming ramming in me
Every time I see your face
I think of things unpure unchaste
I want to fuck you like a dog
I'll take you home and make you like it
Everything you ever wanted
Everything you ever thought of is
Everything I'll do to you
I'll fuck you 'til your dick is blue
@SONG: Johnny Sunshine
You took the car
It was my favorite one
A little white Dart
And drove it to Idaho
You took the horse
It was a thoroughbred
Saddled it up
Out on the interstate
You kept the cat
[put it in] antifreeze
Dumped in the trunk
with the rest of the cattlefeed
You took the house
You went and changed the locks
Now I am stuck
Living [in a] [out of a] box
I think I've been taken
for everything I own
I've been hurt so badly
I'm alone, baby, I'm alone
You left me nothing
You left me nothing
Johnny Sunshine
You left me nothing
You left me nothing
Johnny Sunshine
You left me nothing
You left me nothing
Johnny Sunshine
You left me nothing
You left me nothing
@SONG: Gunshy
Rifle in hand and two in the bush
Three count delay, I may need a little push
Take out the garbage on Tuesday nights
Seems like the small things
Are the only things I'll fight
Seems like the small things
Are the only things I'll fight
Gunshy, Gunshy, Gunshy, Gunshy
Sea monkeys, do monkey's
Story of my life
Send three bucks to a comic book
Get a house, car and wife
Send three bucks to a comic book
Get a house, car and wife
Gunshy, Gunshy, Gunshy, Gunshy
@SONG: Stratford-On-Guy
I was flying into Chicago at night
Watching the lake turn the sky into blue-green smoke
The sun was setting to the left of the plane
And the cabin was filled with an unearthly glow
In 27-D I was behind the wing
watching landscape roll out
like credits on a screen
The earth looked like it was lit from within
like a poorly assembled electrical ball as we moved
Out of the farmlands into the grid
The plan of the city was all that you saw
And all of these people sitting totally still
As the ground raced beneath them thirty thousand feet down
It took an hour, maybe a day
But once I really listened, the noise
Just went away
And I was pretending that I was in a Galaxie 500 video
The stewardess came back and checked on my drink
In the last strings of sunlight, a Bridgette Bardot
There's a head on my headphones
Along with those eyes that you get
When your circumstance is movie size
It took an hour, maybe a day
But once I really listened, the noise
Just went away
It took an hour, maybe a day
But once I really listened, the noise
Just went away
@SONG: Strange Loop
The fire you like so much in me
Is the mark of someone adamantly free
But you can't stop yourself from wanting words
Cause nothing feeds a hunger like a thirst
Baby I'm tired of fighting
I always wanted you
I broke up at the roadhouse
I wouldn't know you were alive
You haven't seen me for weeks now
It wouldn't shock you if
I drove right out through the back of your eyes
I can't be trusted
For saying I can't be true
But I only wanted more than I knew
Baby I'm tired of fighting
I always wanted you
I only wanted more than I knew
All lyrics transcribed by susa...@netaxs.com
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Chopsticks
I met him at a party and he told me how to drive him home. He said he
liked to do it backwards and I said that's just fine with me. That way we
can fuck and watch TV. It was four a.m. and the light was grey like it
always is in paperbacks. He asked if I liked playing jacks. I told him I
was good to sixes, but all hell broke loose after that. I told him I knew
Julia Roberts when I was twelve at summer camp. We didn't say anything
after that. I dropped him off and I drove on home cause secretly, I'm timid.
Supernova
I have looked all over the place, but you have got my favorite face.
Your eyelashes sparkle like gilded grass and your lips are sweet and slippery
Like a cherub's bare wet ass ...
Cause you're a human supernova,
A solar superman
You're an angel with wings afire,
A flying, giant friction blast
You walk in clouds of glitter and the sun reflects your eyes,
And every time the wind blows, I can smell you in the sky.
Your kisses are as wicked as an F-16
And you fuck like a volcano and you're everything to me ...
Cause you're a human supernova,
A solar superman
You're an angel with wings of fire,
A flying, giant friction blast
You're a giant, flying friction blast
Cause you're a human supernova,
A solar superman
You're an angel with wings of fire,
A flying, giant friction blast ...
Support System
I don't need a support system
Lifting me into prop position
What I need is a man of action, I need my attraction to you
Driving me down all those dangerous avenues
Lions and tigers tearing at their food.
(whistle break)
I know the gossip
Flies around at breakfast
One of them rings in your hand
"Where the fuck do you get off thinking
I was there at the party cause
All of my friends feed me evil reasons
Why you and I should not be friends ..."
Let's just think this whole thing through,
Tell me, "Just what the hell is a lover supposed to do?"
I got the wrong reaction
A slap in the face from you.
(whistle break: This is such a stupid picture, wrap me in a steak why
don't you throw it in the panther cage and maybe then I'll like you
better (No Way))
I don't need a support system
Lifting me into prop position
What they make is a separation of beauty from attitude
What satisfaction is left when all you do tells everyone
You're acting untrue
(whistle break: This is such a stupid picture, light a cigarette why
don't you stub it in a carburator, maybe then you'll sell me something
(No Way))
I don't need a support system
Put your hand on my heart and listen
What I need is a dedication to last me all the way through
Pointing the finger, I'm counting on loving you
Over and above the passion
I am connected to you.
X-Ray Man
As far as I know, baby,
You can see
As far as I go, funky baby,
Digging deep inside of me ...
(uh uh uh uh uh uh x 4)
As far as I know, sister,
I'm alright
As far as I know, funky lady,
I'm coming home tonight ...
(you can see ... through the smoke ...)
You're an x-ray man
You got x-ray eyes
Why don't you put on your two way sombrero and leave
(uh x 24)
You're an x-ray man
You got white wall tires
Iodine tan
Cheap unpleasant desires
You're an x-ray man
Got an x-rated mind
You're not satisfied looking at me, you're always
Checking out the girl behind
You're an x-ray man
You got secret plans
For me.
Shane
I know that it was the night
The war broke out because
You and I were driving around
You were doing a story
About if people understood
What had happened to their world
Tonight
In bed
Sleeping
The world tonight
In bed
Asleep
You said that you were in touch
With the draft resistors
In case the big boys call you up
You're gonna have to let 'em
Dick you around
But don't let 'em make
You do
What you can't live with
Tonight
In bed
With you
Sleeping
You looked like you were just a little kid
Shane, I said, you've got to watch your ass
You've gotta have fear in your heart (x 8)
Fear in your heart.
Nashville
They don't know
What they like so much about it
They just go
For any shiny old bauble
And nobody sparkles like you ...
But I can't imagine it in better terms
Than naked, half awake, about to shave and go to work ...
And I'm starting to think it could happen to me like it did to you
And I'm starting to actually feel it seep through the
Slick divide now
I don't crack the door too far for anyone who's pushing too hard on me
They don't know
What they like so much about it
Maybe it goes
On the other side of the hallway,
The writing's so small from here ...
But I can't imagine it in better terms
Than naked, half awake, about to shave an go to work ...
I won't decorate my love (x 6)
Go West
Safe on
The interstate
New York
Is three thousand miles away
And I'm not looking forward to following through
But it's better than always running back into you
I've closed my eyes and my bank account and gone west, young man
Take off
The parking brake
Go coasting
Into a different state
And I'm not looking forward to missing you
But I must have something better to do
I've got to tear my life apart and go west, young man
And it feels like I've got something to prove,
But in some ways it's just something to do
My friend's turn me around and say "You go west, young man"
Stepping
Down off my platform shoes
Sixty
Nine in the afternoon
And I'm waiting for someone in the know
Like Pirnir tells me on the radio
Says take it from someone who's been there before
You go west, young man
And I'm looking for somebody to do
My thinking for me till I come through
The state-line highway sign says you have gone west, young man
And it feels like I've got something to prove
But in some ways it's just something to do
The state-line highway sign says you have gone west, young man
Cinco De Mayo
Cinco de Mayo. Blow out, denial. It wasn't fun this time, letting you go.
What if I never, a bullet forever, held out my hand to you, we wouldn't
Have known beautiful flow, absolute measure, I ain't no pleasure hound
Bus' out of control, ploughing the road, out on a bender, just Alice falling
Down a deepening hole.
I'd never been to Rome until you smiled.
You're about as old and piled.
I used to pray for snow ...
Now I just wonder what spell I was under, thinking you thought of me as
Something to hold.
I'd never been to Rome until you smiled.
You're about as old and piled.
Cinco de Mayo. Burn-out, Ohio. It wasn't me this time, letting you go.
The Dogs of L.A.
The canyon air is like a breath of fresh L.A.
I was a Star Trek crew member with my Beatle boots and my
Super-8
And I raced you to the top,
The camera gets a stuttered shot of
Me approaching the sacred shrine
Where I kissed the Buddha and made him cry
I kissed the Buddha and made him cry,
"Georgie, I'm your friend!"
And the shit brown reservoir
Is a testament to the dogs of L.A.
They hold the place like the Mafia and say,
"Run me round again."
The sawed off tree-trunks stand among the living palms
You were beaming as I focused in and I panned along and I
Raced you to the top
Kicking snakes up from dusty rocks
Young Abe Vagoda plays Frankenstein
I kissed the Buddha and made him cry
I kissed the Buddha and made him cry,
"Georgie, I'm your friend!"
And the shit brown reservoir is a
Testament to the dogs of L.A., they
Hold the place like the Mafia and say,
"Run me round again.
I wanna go again."
And the shit brown reservoir is a testament to the dogs of L.A.
They hold the place like the Mafia and say, "Run me round again."
Whip-Smart
I'm gonna tell my son to grow up pretty as the grass is green and
Whip-smart as the English Channel's wide.
And I'm gonna tell my son to keep his money in his mattress and his watch
On any hand between his thighs.
And I'm gonna lock my son up in a tower till I write my whole life story
On the back of his big brown eyes.
When they do the double dutch, that's them dancing. (x 4)
And I'm gonna tell my son to join a circus so that death is cheap and
Games are just another way of life.
And I'm gonna tell my son to be a prophet of mistakes because for
Every truth, there are half a million lies.
And I'm gonna lock my son up in a tower till he learns to let his hair down
Far enough to climb outside.
When they do the double dutch, that's them dancing. (x 4)
Jealousy
He's got a million dollar car
He's got a thirty-seven year old guitar
He's got a family who deals heroin, you're on the edge of your chair and then
You feel it
He's looking at you
He's laughing at you
It's happening.
I can't, I can't believe it.
But it's there on the pages I'm reading
It's all I can do to conceal my feelings of jealousy
I know it's just a drawer of photographs
They're ex-girlfriends, I try to remember that
I don't wanna look, but I'm already hooked on jealousy ... jealousy ...
I can't believe you had a life before me
I can't believe they let you run around free
Putting your body wherever it seemed like a good idea
What a good idea:
Standing
On the corner
Watching
The ladies
Pass by
Imagining me behind your eyes
And then what did I see? I saw hips, I saw thighs
I saw secret positions that we never try
I saw jealousy
I saw jealousy
I can't, I can't believe it
But it's here in this place and I see it
It's all I can do to conceal my feelings of jealousy:
Standing
On the mud flats
Watching
The salmon fly
Wonder if I'll ever bury the hatchet inside
Imagine me behind your eyes, and what did I see
I saw hips, I saw thighs
I saw secret positions that we never try
I saw jealousy
Alice Springs
See the sun rise
So loud,
This whole town
Gets drowned out.
Sky writing with the sweep of a flashlight
I'm driving over that way
Some pot of gold, it's just a carpeting store on opening day.
See the moon rise
So slow,
And shallow,
It burns halos in my eyes.
It's harder to swallow,
Harder to breathe,
So many opals, nobody here knows what to believe.
They've got me underground.
Crater Lake
Once you've left a lonely rage on its own, it grows.
And dynamite stuffed in a mailbox doesn't smoke until it blows...
And oh, all the tears
In four tiny years
Well look at me, I'm frightening my friends...
You better roll me...
I bought a map of the moon. There's a crater with my name on it and a
really good view ... There I was, getting drunk in your room ... Because
I wanted to throw my weight around
An oh, all the tears
In four tiny years
Oh look at me, I'm frightening my friends...
You better roll me home
May Queen
Don't ... be ... fooled ... by ... him ... he's ... fine.
Rock and roll Ken doll, he's a national end-all, he's an on and off friend
Of miiiiiiiine ...
Where have I been?
Got any what?
Who have I seen?
I spy a may queen.
You were miles above me,
Girls in your arms.
The changing of her majesty's guard is truly amazing.
Got any what? Disease, hashish, a mind, do I have any what?
Where have I been?
Got any what?
Who have I seen?
I spy a may queen.
You were miles above me,
Girls in your arms.
You could have planted a farm
With all of them hay-seeds....