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Guided by Voices – Shifting Swift Is a Lift (2000) | Track profile | Dork

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Suitcase: Failed Experiments and Trashed Aircraft
Shifting Swift Is a Lift

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Guided by Voices

Shifting Swift Is a Lift

Release date: 17th October 2000

From Suitcase: Failed Experiments and Trashed Aircraft

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About This Track

"Shifting Swift Is a Lift" is a track by Guided by Voices, from the album Suitcase: Failed Experiments and Trashed Aircraft, released 17th October 2000. Full lyrics are available below.

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Guided by Voices

Guided by Voices

Lyrics

Shifting Swift Is a Lift

Ah ah, ah-ah ah ah

Ah ah, ah-ah ah ah

I got a gold tooth full of good women, yeah, woo

Oh, she's a poetic bumper sticker

I got fresh regrets, oh, my name is Penguin

A massive upheaval with crow hoppings and prettiest freaks go round, he-he-he-he-he-he-he

Ooh, solve the planet

A wise man and his whisky

On a five kiss detail, shifting swift is a lift

Shifting swift is a lift

In men's men's paradisio

You are placed in despicable positions

And the best approach is not known

So just follow the bite marks

No need to stare or resilient egos necessary

Shifting swift is a lift

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From Suitcase: Failed Experiments and Trashed Aircraft

2000

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Suitcase: Failed Experiments and Trashed Aircraft

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2000

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