Isolation Drills Chords

Guided By Voices: Isolation Drills

Transcribed by Dan Schmidt <dfan@dfan.org>

FAIR TOUCHING

G D C D 2x (well, not really, since the guitars are sustaining G)

G D
Under the iron shop
C D
The farewell ladies wink
G D
Always promising
C D
No one to crush them
G D C
Always pokerfaced before bingo
D G D C D
Does it snap or just happen?

G D C
But a queen's prize awaits
Am Bm C
She might rub her legs
Em Bm/D C
But a queen's prize awaits

Currently fabulous
And perhaps at last
The song you sing will have meaning

Am Bm C
Am Bm C D
G D C D 2x
G

SKILLS LIKE THIS

G ----2-----2---2-----2------------
D ----2-----2---2---2-2------------
A 0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-333--------
E --------------------------3-2-0--

A C
Reinvented nightly
A C
Wake up with skills like this
A C
And do you want me in your head?
A B C D
But what's behind your scattered eyesigns?

B F A C A C
I want to reinvent you now

Fifty hats and bargain suits
We will wear them if we must
But who will be a human boot?
Kick the wave of current hotlines?

I want to reinvent you now

A

A G D A
Reinvent you nightly
A G D A
Reinvite you rightly
A G D A
I'll reunite you

CHASING HEATHER CRAZY

G --0--0----0--0--
D -0--3-3--2--0--0
A 3--3---32--2--2-
C2 F2 Em G

Trailing off the likes of it
She likes it when it grows
Sending out a candidate
She's sinking her foes
Peaking out then leveling
Wherever it goes

C
And her mother will greet you
Am
And a river will reach you
Bb F
Breaking out to make you slave again

C
Chasing Heather crazy
F
Chasing Heather crazy
Dm
Making sure that all the world is coming down
F C
All the world is coming down on her
C
Anywhere I want to
F
And if you want to come too

We'll go down where
Dm
All the girls are stumblin' round
F C
All the world is crumbling down around her

Staring out from otherworldly windows painted red
Doesn't have to listen to the voices in your head
That's a different lie
Do you remember what was said?

FROSTMAN

E 00--0----0--0----0--0----0--0---------------
B 0-0--0----0--0----0--0----0-----------------
G 1-------1--1--10----------------------------
D 2------01--1--104--4--402-------------------
A 2--2--2---------4--4--4-2--2----------------
E 0--0--0-----------------0--0----------------

Frostman says the summer needs to wait for you
Frostman says the wintertime is blue

E -0---0---0---2---0--0----0--0----0--0--0----
B --2---0---2---4---0--0----0--0----0--0------
G ----------2---4---1----1-------2------------
D 2-------2---4------2----4--4--4-------------
A 0--02--20--02--0------2-4--4--4-2--2--2-----
E ----2-----------0---------------0--0--0-----

Oh, frostman I'm with you
Even when the sun shines
Even when the winter comes

TWILIGHT CAMPFIGHTER

E 0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-2-0-2-0-2-0-2-0-
B -0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0

E
Twilight campfighter
B
You build your fire into an open wound
A E
You want us to feel better

On these darker trails
B
With light revealing holy grails
A B
To hike through dangerous weather
E
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

E G#m B
As we vegetate and wait around for brighter days
E G#m C#m
And can dance contented to the sound of money
F#m
Could I have seen a sight
G#m D
Much greater than your twilight eyes
A
That penetrate your silent lives (lies)

E B E B
F#m G#m D A

E
Twilight campfighter
B
We do congratulate
It's not too late
A E
To make us all feel better
D
Under darker skies
A
With your twilight eyes

E B E B
E

SISTER, I NEED WINE

D 24444200-0202-20
A 2222222222222222

Sister, I need wine

For color in my skin

And darkness for my eyes
G D/F# E
But I can see the light burn through
G D/F# Esus4
Still it is the night brings me to you

Sister, use your gift
The backed up river spreads
On ground for fighting words
And I am hating the ignorance in my body
And I can't feed on the heaviness
Sister, I need you

G A
And we will dance for gold
D E
And straddle the hour of fear
A G
And learn the real story
D
Drink the truth
Esus4
Shed not one tear

WANT ONE?

D -454-454
A 5---5---

A Eb 2x

A Eb
I have a positive hot gift (Want one?)
A Eb
A scoffer's clutch karma issue (Want one?)
D (bass goes D B A G)
A nursery whip for men who skip

A Eb 4x

D
Living the dream of kings before children

G D
Come inside I'll show you
C
A ticket to sugar pie
D
Yeah, I want one
C
A lesson before you die
D
Hey gimme one

A Eb D
I want one

D

THE ENEMY

A 222222-2222-222
E 000220-0000-000

Look me straight
Now blame it on loneliness
Who knows?
E C A E
Certainly not them

Where is this?
The lane that takes you head on
But for now
You do not/cannot contemplate
E C A E
Certainly not you

A
And silence is dread

'Cause look what you've done
E
Aligned outside no aim
Bm7
Which follows me
C Bm7
Painted over a well cleansed abdomen
A
Tattooed ugly and blue
E
The enemy

Watch and wait
A childproof survival kit
Just for a glimpse
Of the everlasting big kick

C/G A E
Secrets bleeding to untold families
C/G A E
Lovers in flight over the gravesite
A C D
We become statues
E
In a ten acre garden

E ---0---------------0------------
B --0--0-----4---------0-----4----
G ----------0--0----1-------0--0--
D -2-----0-0-----0-2-----0-0-----0
A 2-----2-3-----3-2-----2-3-----3-
E --------------------------------
E Cm E Cm

E

EEEAAE EEEE EEE \
EEEAAE EEEE EEE |
B/A A | repeat many times
EEEAAE EEEE EEE /

UNSPIRITED

D --0-0-------
A -0-0-0---0--
E 2------0--0-

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

A
Unspirited
D
The less than life you live
A
The lessons make you lame, boy
Bm
the same, boy
D Bm
Everywhere that you go, I'm with you now

D/F# A/E

D/F# A/E
When you lose it all, you'll think of me
D/F# A/E
When you take the fall, you'll drink to me
D/F# A/E
I'm the one who did it painlessly
D/F#
I'm the one that does it

D Bm
Everywhere that you go, I'm with you now
D A
Everywhere that you go, I'm with you now

D A D A D A D A

final chord: E 0
B 0
G 2
D 2
A 0
E 0

GLAD GIRLS

D G
Hey, glad girls only want to get you high
D
And they're alright

G D
There will be no coronation
G Em D
There will be no flowers flowing
Em D A
In the light that passes through me now
Em D A
In the light that passes through me

There will be no graduation
There will be no trumpets blowing
In the light that passes through me now
In the light that passes through me

D A/D G/D 2x

D A/D
With the sinking of the sun
G/D
I've come to greet you
D A/D
Clean your hands and go to sleep
G/D
Confess the dreams
D C/D
Of good and bad men all around
Bb/D
Some are lost

And some have found
Em D A
The light that passes through me now
Em D A
The light that passes through me

D G Em!
Hey, glad girls only want to get you high
D
And they're alright

Em
D/F#
G
D

RUN WILD

G ----0-----------
D --20-02---------
A ----------------
E 00-----0--------

Em
Think of a no parking zone
Where armored cars keep the street
F#m/E Em
And every heart seeks inspiration
It is full to maximum capacity

E
Leave your things in the streets
A
And run wild
E
And run wild
A
And run wild

Wooden heads on the chopping block
And other hearts pumping ink
That spills out over dreams of antiquity
Pale but full of ghostly charm

PIVOTAL FILM

G 020-------------
D 0002300---------
A 333-111055555555
E --------33535555
C Bb G

Bb
Pivotal film
G
Showing cloaks of rubber
Bb
Digital relay
G
Fingers stroking

Eb
Like mechanical lover
F
Critical rooms
G C Bb
Transparent scenes shifting

G

Pivotal film
Selling out your monkey
Sinful heroes
Stabbing, choking
(They must be joking)

Like mechanical lover
Critical rooms
Transparent scenes shifting

Gm
Grotesque and arrogant

Perfect for the experts

Top gold

It's cold in the morning
Bb
Where scenesters exit
G
Into thin air
C
Into thin air
Bb G
Into pivotal film

HOW'S MY DRINKING?

C F C G
C F G -

C F
How's my drinking?
C G C F
I don't care about being sober
C G C
But I sure get around
F C G
In this town

Am C
To hell with my church bells
D/F# F
And leave me die
C
With you
F G
I won't change

C F C G repeat

THE BRIDES HAVE HIT GLASS

E -----------------
B 55-5-55--555555--
G 55-5-55--555555--
D 33-3-00--000000--
A -----------------
E -----------------

F
I don't come around

Never call or let her know
Bb
I got a life of my own
Gm
You know I hate to be around her
Bb
When she's like that
Gm
I wrote a song once about her
F
Called "The Brides Have Hit Glass"

You know it just won't last
Bb
To be on top of your own world
Gm
With no guardrails to cling to
Bb
You fall so very fast
Gm
It's very odd to find her up again
F
Staking out expansion

Seeking new exposure

Gm Bb
And when she holds out an empty glass
Am
And she comes for a handout
Gm Bb F
I ask for the same thing-it's sad
Gm Bb Am
And I hold on so sure I can take all she can
Gm
Just to be around her
Bb F
Just to feel bad

F
One day I will know

That's it's a waste of time
Bb
And there's a better road ahead of me
Gm
I just don't know how to make it there
Bb
So I'll just hang around and take my chance
Gm
Once again I'll roll the dice
F
And try to hang on to my shrinking paradise

Gm Bb
And I'll hold out an empty glass
Am
And I'll come for a handout
Gm Bb F
And I'll ask for the same thing-it's sad
Gm Bb
And I'll hold on so confident
Am
That's it all I can give
Gm
To try to find my way back
Bb F
Just to hit glass

FINE TO SEE YOU

D --0---0--
A -2-2-2-2-
E 3---3----

G G/B
It was sure fine to see you
Em Eb/Bb
Delicious and thank you for coming
G C
There is nowhere to go but up
G/B Csus2
You know that for I tell you

G G/B
All of our friends are thinking about us
Em Eb/Bb
The cup is running over
G C Csus2
I am hypnotizing the highway
G C G/B
I am baptizing mad rivers

Eb/Bb
And the rivers run wild
G
And the highway is long
C G/B
It was so good to see you
G G/B
You know that for I tell you

Gm/Bb G

PRIVATELY

Bm A
In the midst of this effort
Bm A
Courageous tongues are bitter
Bm7
Don't blast them
E A
Bring posters and broadcast
Csus2
Not a public display
Bm
But a new secret
D A
Come there to pretend
D A
Bring your children
D A E A
Allow them to watch to the end

Bm A
Before most of us knew it
Bm A
Contagious words have bitten
Bm7
Don't use them
E A
Don't post them for broadcast
Csus2
Keep then private and away
Bm
Like an old weapon
D A
Come here on command
D A
Like good children
D A E A
Allow us to watch 'til to the end

Bm A E A
Cigarette lifter
Bm A E A
The frozen violins
Bm A E A
Solid movement Privately
Bm A E A
Privately