Beat Your Wings

Guided by Voices · Earthquake Glue [2000]

Will the wind that scatters dust

Reveal its secrets, speak to us

Of many things

In the morning when she comes

The bird awakes you with her song

She'll beat her wings, she will rise again

And ride a perfect high

And find a sweet seed growing

And never know why she sees anything



One more inch, no more reason

Go without you even yet and

Death you sing

Pass it by when one's discovered

Time to stop wasting time

What will you bring?

You will rise again

And ride a perfect high

And find a sweet seed growing

And never know why you hear anything



Bless the sunlight

Grab this day to make you over

Save the bullet

Priced the sandman's head

This time do not roll over

Beat you wings

Yeah, hear them sing out, up there in the glimpse of silence

Up there



When the days have come to pass

Our journey broken gone at last

We'll beat our wings

Shadows take familiar skin

So recognize them

Don't give in

We'll beat our wings

We will rise again

And ride a perfect high

And find a sweet seed growing

And never know why we feel anything

Yeah anything

Yeah beat your wings

Now beat your wings

Yeah beat your wings

Now beat your wings

Now beat your wings

Yeah beat your wings

Yeah beat your wings

Now beat your wings

Yeah beat your wings