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Guided by Voices – Dragons Awake! (1999) | Track profile | Dork

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Guided by Voices
Do the Collapse
Dragons Awake!

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Guided by Voices

Dragons Awake!

Release date: 3rd August 1999

From Do the Collapse

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About This Track

"Dragons Awake!" is a track by Guided by Voices, from the album Do the Collapse, released 3rd August 1999. Full lyrics are available below.

About the Artist

Guided by Voices

Guided by Voices

Lyrics

Dragons Awake!

[Verse]

Dragons awake!

Take me through the voodoo, Buddha

You are the king of things

I am a fake

Over the treetops, an automan

An automatic girl

Predator, skin an orangutan alive

I have two eyes

Sprinkle the pearls over the ham

Grand Peter, might it be the pipes of Pan?

Oh, oh

Softer tits will greet you

They have been tapped

By suckers of the sap

Now I'm going home

In the distance I can see them

Proudly waving flags

To separate and free them

[Chorus]

Dragons awake!

Forever and ever

For everyone to see

Dragons awake!

Dragons awake!

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Track details

From Do the Collapse

1999

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Album

Do the Collapse

Guided by Voices

Release year

1999

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—Picture Me Big Time
—Strumpet Eye
—Zoo Pie
—Wrecking Now
—Wormhole
—Optical Hopscotch
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—Much Better Mr. Buckles
—Dragons Awake!
—In Stitches
—An Unmarketed Product
—Liquid Indian

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Writer: Robert Pollard
Producer: Ric Ocasek