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Slow Dazzle
Guts

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Guts

Release date: 1975

From Slow Dazzle

Track 9

3:32

Rock Music Prog-Rock/Art Rock Pop

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About This Track

'Guts' by John Cale is a 1975 rock track from the album 'Slow Dazzle'. The lyrics are darkly comic and lurid, staging a scene of betrayal and aftermath in blunt, grotesque terms, with a lurid image of disgust so heightened it starts to feel operatic. One line makes the tone plain: “fucked my wife”.

"Guts" is a track by John Cale, from the album Slow Dazzle, released 1975. The track is 3:32 long. It's filed under Rock. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 1 article about John Cale.

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John Cale

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Lyrics

Guts

The bugger in the short sleeves fucked my wife
Did it quick and split
Back home, fresh as a daisy to Maisie, oh, Maisie

And the 12-bore it stood in the corner
Quite operatic in its self-disgust
It blew him all over the living room floor
Like parrot shit, parrot spit, parrot shit was shot

Now suppose it was someone familiar
Someone we all would know
Embarrassing denouement, ne c'est pas?
Familiar hyperbole

And there would go the secret plot
The piss had missed the hole in the pot
Like that ancient teenage dream
From soul to poison soul to poison soul

Guts, guts, got no guts
And stitches don't help at all
Yeah, guts, guts, got no guts
Holes in the body, holes in the legs
Holes in the forehead, holes in the head
Holes in the body, holes in the legs
There should never be holes at all
There should never be holes at all

So kill all you want or more
Make sure, do it right
Dead is dead and door nails forget
And then you'll notice
How the waster and the wasted
Get to look like one another

In the end, in the end
In the end, in the end
In the end, in the end
In the end, in the end
In the end, in the end
In the end, in the end
In the end, in the end
In the end, in the end

In the end, in the end
In the end, in the end
In the end, in the end
In the end, in the end
In the end, in the end
In the end, in the end
In the end, in the end
In the end, in the end

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From Slow Dazzle

3:321975

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Track number

9

Release year

1975

1Mr. Wilson
3:18
2Taking It All Away
3:00
3Dirty Ass Rock 'N' Roll
4:45
4Darling I Need You
3:38

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