Guided by Voices
Guided by Voices
Guided by Voices
Guided by Voices
Guided by Voices
Guided by Voices
Guided by Voices
Guided by Voices
Guided by Voices
Guided by Voices
Guided by Voices
Guided by Voices
Guided by Voices
Guided by Voices
Guided by Voices
Guided by Voices
Guided by Voices
Guided by Voices
Guided by Voices
Guided by Voices
This song is based around the end of a miserable relationship, using a metaphor based around a tractor harvesting rapeseed in the chorus to showcase the distance between people who are even physically close, moving in the same direction.
An earlier version of this song from which the title and chor...
[Verse 1]
Why is it every time I think about you
Something that you have said or implied makes me doubt you?
Then I look into your cynical eyes and I know it
As if it never meant anything to me
[Chorus]
Parallel lines on a slow decline—tractor rape chain
Better yet, let's all get wet on the tractor rape chain
Speed up, slow down, go all around in the end
[Verse 2]
In the first place, it's probably just paranoia
But there's a ghost in my room and he says I better run
It's a thing I know, it's a thing I believe in
Won't you tell it to go away?
[Chorus]
Parallel lines on a slow decline—tractor rape chain
Better yet, let's all get wet on the tractor rape chain
Speed up, slow down, go all around in the end
Speed up, slow down, go all around in the end
Speed up, slow down, go all around in the end
Tractor Rape Chain was written by Robert Pollard.
Tractor Rape Chain was produced by Robert Pollard.
Guided by Voices released Tractor Rape Chain on Tue Jun 21 1994.