The God Is My Co-Pilot Lyrics Sheet: "B" Songs


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Backstab

Craig Flanagin

[There are two versions of this song. The earlier version, fond on the single "How I Got Over", "The History of Music Vol. 1" and, "Tight Like Fist: Live Recording" use only the last 'verse'. The version on "An Appeal To Reason", "History of Music Vol. 2 and "The Best Of God Is My Co-Pilot" has the complete lyrics.]

I'm a firm believer in math
& having just completed a statistical analysis
of the course of my friendships
over the period of X to X'
that is, ie., since we met
the numbers show that everyone who was my friend
at point X, whom I introduced to you
is no longer my friend, but now instead
is a friend of yours

To correlate my results
I undertook fieldwork of a participant oberver nature
I introduced myself to you as someone else
then, when I wasn't around
I asked you about me
& I carefully noted your responses
plotting them against the same answers when
posed by me
and this is the result

Thought you were my friend / But I was wrong No one but myself to blame / So I
blame you / Backstab! / Stabbed myself in the back


Batgirl Gets A C-Section

Craig Flanagin and Eddie Stern

Batgirl!
Get that knife get that knife get that knife away from me.


Be Nice To Yr Parents

Lyrics: Sharon Topper - Music: Craig Flanagin, Andy Haas, Jenny Wade, and David Simons

Be Nice To Yr Parents; treat them like plants, or cats. Don't upset them, they worry easily. It's a lot of work, but do it. Talk in a soothing voice, being careful not to say anything startling or specific. And always say, "Thank you."


Behave

[AKA: Someone's Always Telling You How To Behave]

Chumbawumba
Additional lyrics by Craig Flanagin

[Originally a Chumbawumba song. There are three versions of this song, the version and remix on "The Best Of God Is My Co-Pilot" have extra lyrics.]

Angry Slander in accusing whispers
Knights in armour on milk white chargers
come to save us from our own natures
Love who I love and fuck who I want
you should hear the things they say about me know

Someone's always telling you how to behave

Girls & boys come out to play
see cupid fire his poison arrow
good-bye to all self-loathing angels
I've got a date with a little devil

Girls will be boys & boys will be girls
I've found a bed full of heaven in this animal world

Someone's always telling you how to behave


Belle

traditional, arranged by GodCo

Lyrics not available at this time.


Best Friends

Craig Flanagin, Andy Haas, and Chris Pellettieri

[A true story]

Best Friends
do everything together best friends
blood sisters
best friends blood sisters
best friends
do everything together

Mary loves Patty, Patty loves Mary
Mary pricked her finger, Patty chickened out.
Mary pricked her finger, Patty chickened out.
Mary pricked her finger, Patty chickened out.
Chicken Patty, chicken Patty

Best Friends
do everything together best friends
blood sisters
best friends blood sisters
best friends
do everything together

Mary grabbed Patty, Mary grabbed the stapler
Mary grabbed Patty, Mary grabbed the stapler

Best Friends
do everything together
There, that's better

Best Friends
do everything together
best friends
blood sisters
There, that's better

(Lyrics as interpreted by Allan Hise <hise@io.com>)


Better Get It In Yr Soul

(tangentially related to the Charles Mingus tune of the same name)

You walked your water
You know you've arrived
You hear angels singing
And you raised the dead


Bicycle Girls

[AKA "Bicycle Girls"]

Craig Flanagin, Sharon Topper, Michael Evans, and Gen Ken

[Actually, the song on "Getting out of Boring Time, Biting Into Boring Pie" and "The History of Music: Volume 2" is called "Bicycle Girls", which is a song about the song Bicycle Girls. Get it?]

I was standing on the corner
When a woman rode by
On a blue Schwinn Cruiser
That caught my eye.

Well she stopped just past the corner
And she gave me a nervous cough
So I hopped up on the crossbar
And she pedalled us off.

Alternate Lyrics:

I was standing on the corner
When a woman rode by
On a blue Schwinn Cruiser
That caught my eye

She stopped just past the corner
And she gave a nervous cough
So I sat down on the cross-bar
And she pedalled us off


Björkfruits

Sharon Topper and Craig Flanagin

Björk is horny
Sharon is helpful
What is the gap between idea and fuck?
What is the path from the clitoris to the heart?
Fruits!
America!
School
How are you have become you're so far away?
I'm around the new friends


Blue Yodel #21

Sharon Topper, Craig Flanagin, Otto Kentrol, and Michael Evans

[The title refers to the blue yodels of Jimmie Rodgers]

This is a song about a song called BLUE YODEL #21.!

Nail my heart to the lonesome pine.
I'll be back in the summertime.
Seal my tongue in a metal box.
Leave my heart to guard the lock.

The 1st time he shot her, he shot her in the side.
The 2nd time he shot her, she bowed her and died.

Bury my dick in your backyard.
Dig it up when you want to see if it's hard.

Well, I don't give a damn if they never do stop.

Now, when I die, don't bury me at all.
Just saddle my pony.
Lead him out of the stall.
Tie my bones to the saddle, turn my face to the West.
I'll ride the prairie that I love best.

Nail my heart to the lonesome pine.
I'll be back in the summertime!

Seal my tongue in a metal box.
Leave my heart to guard the lock.
Yippee Ai Yippee!
Come a Ki Yi Yippee!
Come a Ki Yi Yay!


Bludgeon

Written By: ?

[A murder mysetry]

Wil they dig the pit?
They will dig it big.
They had a big bid.
They are glad.


!B'nai!

Traditional, arranged by God is My Co-Pilot

[Stephanie learned this song at Zionist summer-camp over fifty years ago, and taught it to Sharon.]

Build, pilgrims! build Jerusalem...


Boris

Craig Flanagin, Alex Klein, David Simons and Fly

(Lyrics not available at this time)


Both Ways

Craig Flanagin, Sharon Topper, Elliot Sharp, and Michael Evans

They just want to have it both ways, have it both ways. Once I went a-courtin', I stayed til half-past one. When I went to leave my girl, what do you think she done? If you're not a certain way then you're another way. At least that's what they say, but hey, I know better. I see a girl I see a cat The boy has a dog The girl has a cat The boy has a dog the boy has a ball I see a girl. I am what I say, not what I say that I am: I may say a thing, and you know what I say - you may not know me, but you kn ow what I am - I am not who, I am what I say.


Boxstitch

[AKA: Hexenstich]

Craig Flanagin

Take me home with you
I have no home of my own
Be my home
Sew me into your womb
Be my home - take me home with you
one stitch two stitch box stitch

[German Translation]

nimm ' mich mit zu dir nach haus Ô
ich selbst hab Ô nämlich keins
näh Ô mich in deinen bauch ein
näh Ô mich in deinen kleine höhle ein

ein stich - zweiter stich
ein stich - noch ein stich
heftstich - hexenstich

sei du mein zuhause
sei du mein zuhause
ich selbst hab Ô nämlich keins
hefte mich in deinen bauch
nimm ' mich mit zu dir nach haus Ô


Brought Up Short

Craig Flanagin and Siobhan Duffy

We who are about to die
brought up at the wall,
brought up short by our own bad expectations
and plain dumb selfishness,
too well brought up to cry,
brought down by a failure of will,
broken by consensus,
by limitations of our own invention,
too well brought up to turn our backs on plain dumb selfishness.


Butch Flip

Craig Flanagin, Sharon Topper, Alex Klein, and Siobhan Duffy

We're going to play a game where I change your name
We're going to play a game where you learn a new name
Where you ask to be taught how to learn
Well, I won't tell your baby, if your baby doesn't know
where her daddy gets off, where her daddy goes.

Girls in the street can read your mind
in the set of your shoulders in the cut of your hips
But I can read your lips.


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Last modified: 29 November 1997
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