Biography:
The Heligoats are an indie/rock band out of Bellingham Washington.
Webpage: www.theheligoats.bandcamp.com
Label: Greyday Records www.greydayproductions.com
From NPR:
The Heligoats — a strange name for a guy strumming a guitar, but oddly befitting someone who stuffs his songs with so many sideways ideas and observations. Given the yarns he spins here, it's easy to imagine Otepka envisioning a herd of goats with propellers and setting the concept to music.
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[F#] [G]
The [F#] plane touched down in front of me.
I was [G] walking all over you after sharpening my cleats.
And my [F#] teeth and a razor. Here, you better take it.
Take [G] one for the road because I know healing's not easy.
So [F#] try to go slow. Save your ammo.
Let those [G] sleeping dogs lie. Then take full advantage of your [F#] time away.
Your time in the air. Cause your [G] time underground again is drawing near.
So draw [F#] all your conclusions. Then use them as a map.
Stick [G] close to your plans. If you get lost, just come back.
Come on [F#] back to the start. Back into the...[G] dark. And we’ll sit down and make a
[F#] list of all the things you’d like to see appear.
Like a [G] magnifying glass focusing all your fears into one
[F#] giant sun in the middle of your brain.
So [G] bright you can’t sleep at night, so hot you can’t contain.
All of [F#] the laser beams swimming around in your veins.
At your [G] fingertips. The list you just made is in flames.
You see [F#] shadows of demons dancing in the basement.
And the [G] skeleton telling you all the ways that it aches.
Are you [F#] on to more than what your body can take?
Are you [G] dreaming the real? Are you living the fake?
And does [F#] wishful thinking ever scare you at all?
Is it really [G] wishing if you think that you’re perfectly capable?
[F#] Startled asleep. Falling awake.
Are you [G] making the same mistakes you’ve always made?
Be-[F#] lieving in ghosts out-side of the gate.
Be-[G] lieving in homes beyond the grave?
And right [F#] then and there, they land the plane.
Smoke [G] fills the air and it seals the fate of every-
[F#] one on the runway standing right in your [Bm] way.
[F#] I haven’t been the same [Bm] since.
[F#] I haven’t been the same [Bm] since.
Since the [F#] talk we had about getting lost had
[G] come back to haunt us because I’m not where I thought I was.
[F#] Bad decisions made with ambiguous maps.
Color [G] coded and soaking wet and staining my hands.
See [F#] anything you like. Any dream you like is just inside a
[G] chain-smoking, melatonin, everything’s moving in slow motion
[F#] Head like glass block. Heart like folded socks. Eyes
[G] popped out like a couple cuckoo clocks. I-
[F#] kept the key. I swallowed the lock.
I caused [G] way more grief when I solved all the problems.
Woke [F#] up in a boat tied to a dock.
Woke [G] up in a panic. Woke up upside down in a hamper.
Woke [F#] up I don’t know quite where again?
And I don’t know [G] how I woke up in dumpster since then?
Must have [F#] started out in a dead end.[Bm]
Well, [F#] that’s the spirit. I can hear it.
I can [G] feel it. With my arms out like wings
I am a big [F#] bird sailing. Big bird zig zagging.
Big [G] bird coming in for a landing.
On [F#] top of the families.
On top of the front [Bm] page.
I [F#] haven’t been the same [Bm] since.
No I [F#] haven't been the same [Bm] since.
The [F#] plane touched down in front of me.
I was [G] walking all over you after sharpening my cleats.
And my [F#] teeth and a razor. Here, you better take it.
Take [G] one for the road because I know healing's not easy.
So [F#] try to go slow. Save your ammo.
Let those [G] sleeping dogs lie. Then take full advantage of your [F#] time away.
Your time in the air. Cause your [G] time underground again is drawing near.
So draw [F#] all your conclusions. Then use them as a map.
Stick [G] close to your plans. If you get lost, just come back.
Come on [F#] back to the start. Back into the...[G] dark. And we’ll sit down and make a
[F#] list of all the things you’d like to see appear.
Like a [G] magnifying glass focusing all your fears into one
[F#] giant sun in the middle of your brain.
So [G] bright you can’t sleep at night, so hot you can’t contain.
All of [F#] the laser beams swimming around in your veins.
At your [G] fingertips. The list you just made is in flames.
You see [F#] shadows of demons dancing in the basement.
And the [G] skeleton telling you all the ways that it aches.
Are you [F#] on to more than what your body can take?
Are you [G] dreaming the real? Are you living the fake?
And does [F#] wishful thinking ever scare you at all?
Is it really [G] wishing if you think that you’re perfectly capable?
[F#] Startled asleep. Falling awake.
Are you [G] making the same mistakes you’ve always made?
Be-[F#] lieving in ghosts out-side of the gate.
Be-[G] lieving in homes beyond the grave?
And right [F#] then and there, they land the plane.
Smoke [G] fills the air and it seals the fate of every-
[F#] one on the runway standing right in your [Bm] way.
[F#] I haven’t been the same [Bm] since.
[F#] I haven’t been the same [Bm] since.
Since the [F#] talk we had about getting lost had
[G] come back to haunt us because I’m not where I thought I was.
[F#] Bad decisions made with ambiguous maps.
Color [G] coded and soaking wet and staining my hands.
See [F#] anything you like. Any dream you like is just inside a
[G] chain-smoking, melatonin, everything’s moving in slow motion
[F#] Head like glass block. Heart like folded socks. Eyes
[G] popped out like a couple cuckoo clocks. I-
[F#] kept the key. I swallowed the lock.
I caused [G] way more grief when I solved all the problems.
Woke [F#] up in a boat tied to a dock.
Woke [G] up in a panic. Woke up upside down in a hamper.
Woke [F#] up I don’t know quite where again?
And I don’t know [G] how I woke up in dumpster since then?
Must have [F#] started out in a dead end.[Bm]
Well, [F#] that’s the spirit. I can hear it.
I can [G] feel it. With my arms out like wings
I am a big [F#] bird sailing. Big bird zig zagging.
Big [G] bird coming in for a landing.
On [F#] top of the families.
On top of the front [Bm] page.
I [F#] haven’t been the same [Bm] since.
No I [F#] haven't been the same [Bm] since.
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