Name: Birthday Presents (Original Guitar Demo)
Duration: P00H02M50S
Description: Currently re-worked into our live roster~

Birthday Presents (Original Guitar Demo)

from Guided by "Guided by Voices" by Good Heads, Better Shoulders

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I don't buy birthday presents for the ones that I love
and I know it's the wrong thing but I do it because
I can't handle the passing of time
since my father just turned 50, yknow that's half a century come and gone
my mother rides in the same boat, she says don't worry my baby I'm still here
but my brain, it knows better, than to listen and nod my head (it's ok)
cause death comes for everybody, there are those who are ready, and those who never are like my grandpa on the ladder--he'll never know my name, he'll never know my face (that's ok)
My grandma, she went crazy, she didn't know me in her end
I miss her the way that she would smile, the prickly poke of her arm hair, the way she'd say "I love you to a million pieces and I love those too cause they're you"
Now I wonder if I'll inspire tragedies in litter me's in a future where I'm stable, if I could be stable, and I'm happy cause they love me--they call me daddy
I miss them cause they're not real, they're only portraits in my head (that's ok)
I heard words lose their meaning when you've said them too many times...

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from Guided by "Guided by Voices", released January 9, 2017
Troy "Chroy" Doliner

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Good Heads, Better Shoulders is a friendship collective. We are a songwriting guild. We're located in Boston. We try to share ourselves with you with our music. We play some kind of pop punk (tweemo).

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