Fair Touching

Taken from "Ask Them" 1999

"Under the iron shop
The farewell ladies wink
Always promising no one to crush them
Always pockerfaced before bingo
Does it snap or just happen?
But a queen's prize awaits
She might rub her legs
But a queen's prize awaits
Currently fabulous
And perhaps at last the song that you sing
will have meaning"

The Original version that later crops up on Isolation Drills and is a definate Live favourite. This version is slighlty more shrill and less produced but is still a superb Guided By Voices song (though it does have a very REMish sound to it). Only GBV can create that feeling of joy of chiming guitars and languid bass. A great and classic GBV song.