Phair, Liz - Stratford-On-Guy Lyrics
I was flying into Chicago at night
Watching the lake turn the sky into blue-green smoke
The sun was setting to the left of the plane
And the cabin was filled with an unearthly glow
In 27-D, I was behind the wing
The earth looked like it was lit from within
Like a poorly assembled electrical ball
As we moved out of the farmlands into the grid
The plan of a city was all that you saw
And all of these people sitting totally still
As the ground raced beneath them, thirty-thousand feet down
It took an hour, maybe a day
But once I really listened the noise just fell away
And I was pretending that I was in a Galaxie 500 video
The stewardess came back and checked on my drink
In the last strings of sunlight, a Brigitte Bardot
As I had on my headphones
Along with those eyes that you get
When your circumstance is movie-size
It took an hour, maybe a day
But once I really listened the noise just fell away
It took an hour, maybe a day
But once I really listened the noise just fell away
But once I really listened the noise just fell away
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Phair, Liz Stratford-On-Guy Comments
This song is Really AMAZIINGGG💙❤.
Liz, is the best🤘
I listened to this song a thousand times, I never knew there was a video.
The theme song of the 90s.
Gotta love these 2-min "get the job done" types of songs
A *music video* was made for this song? Where has this been all my life?!
Great song, great times...
on repeat
Good song. Like the story she is singing, too.
Still breadable liz?
Love love love this video and song...
wtf this song has a video? I've been listening to it for over 6 years and just found out now..
Hottest woman ever
i never thanked you for making me wish i were pretty, thanks :-)
Poetry.
to bad that grunge and alternative was no thing in europe at the time ..... at its hight for us it was all basicly just techno boom boom boom .... and the usual mainstream artists ... heard of it years later wehn i was older ..wehn the trend was already gone
solunasunrise radio stations djs fault ....
jo and tv and everything
"...chased it away". What's "it"? I like this song but after all these years, I'm still not sure what it's about.
Swink She doesn’t say “chased it away”. It’s “...the noise just fell away”.
Dude, this song is badass. I like how it’s all kind of out of tune. Fucking sick dude.
Liz Phair is the girlfriend that us gay men wish for our straight guy friends
Liz Phair is the girlfriend I wanted to have to impress my gay friends.
Why? So she can fake orgasm and poke holes in condoms? I'd only date guys if Lizzie was the best it got. xo a bisexual guy
You mean perhaps a boyish, short slim , cocky American Anglo Caucasian pothead guitar playing indie 1990’s star? Phair has a sort of style that a lot of middle white male America turned on too back in the day mostly from the ages of 13-35. I found her “cool”. But that was about it. Looking back on these videos she looks like she is on weed. That is her 420 appeal I think to men who respond to her . Those wandering eyes...lol
set me up, man!
you can hear that 90s guitar sound as it was yesterday.
As the Earth raced beneath them 30,000 feet down.
Well Liz, that's modern living. What would be outrageous just a few generations ago is now quite normal. And you are not on the outside looking in. You are in the inside, looking around.
One of my favorite Liz Phair songs😃
For some reason I cannot get into the whole album, but this song is an absolute classic.
the first time I heard this I thought I was hallucinating
POMMELHORSE POMMELHORSE, you'll come down at some point. Let's just hope it isn't soon. She's still fairly young.
I think this is my favorite 90s song, I never get tired of it!
This fuckin slaps
authorize the full album on YouTube again matador.. please!?!?
My favorite song on that incredible album ... I could listen to this on repeat just continually. Cool video too.
I love her slacker voice
Pleiadian Advocate I could never stand her voice....but recently I started listening and I’m realizing she’s a genius, not just as a writer but as a vocalist. So different from what I usually like but she’s amazing
It’s great to finally see these music videos with remastered audio and video... This is one of my favorite songs from Liz Phair’s debut album!
when we thought liz phair was one of us
She's just a person and an artist.
Classic Liz Phair, remaster sounds great - also worth listening to at 1.25x
what I liked about these times it was like a bit of country and rock...and her low low dulcet tones
Flowing w/her
A great rock-n-roll tune!
showwwwwww!!!!
beautiful song & video, Liz' visual/directorial work is very underrated. Part of the trifecta of her directed videos in the early 90s: this, Supernova and Whip-Smart x
Never Said?
don't believe she directed that one!
Correct; she didn't direct "Never Said", but she did also direct the awesome "Jealousy" video.
ah lovely, I didn't realize she directed the Jealousy vid! Much appreciated, love her visual work, it isn't given enough recognition xx
History
Originally released on my birthday 25 years ago... And now, re-released on my birthday 2018...!!
Lola Caron That's so eerily coincidental. Btw, Happy Birthday!!!
Epic coincidence!
Wow, I'm old.
Holy Shit! Mine, too! :-)
Might be my favorite on the album
My personal favorite would be 'Explain it to me' (followed by 'Never said').
It's great that Matador was able to issue this video in its' remastered state. It was available on YouTube before, but it looked like it was videotaped from a VHS or recorded on one. Now that all the colors & sounds are corrected, it can be seen as it was meant to. Excited to see Liz come to Seattle in June!!
WOW!! GOOD SONG!!! I started 2018 knowing a lot of good music !! like this or "Mac de marco" or "La rueda o el barco" Recommend me more!
Inventor This is actually released in 1993...But they released in a HD version with improved music
Inventor, Try using indie Record Label Artist's as a Seeker To Source.
parquet courts, the silver jews, pavement, the modern lovers, velvet underground, television, wire
Elliott smith
legendary
Was this on the DVD Matador released way back when?
No, that was the "Jealousy" video.