Liz Phair - Go West (Girlysound)

from the first of two cassette tapes, self-released and hitherto known as "Girlysound", ca. 1991 (side A, track 5). Appeared three years later in trussed up form on the "Whip-Smart" LP, though this bare bones version is what the kids often refer to as "hot white gold" (tape hiss included).

Safe on the interstate
New York is three thousand miles away
and I'm not looking forward to following you
but it's better than always running back into you
I've got to tear my life apart
and go west, young man

Take off the parking brake
go coasting into a different state
and it feels like I got something to prove
but in some ways it's just something to do
I closed my eyes and my bank account
and gone west, young man

and I'm not looking forward to missing you
but I must have something better to do
my friends turned me around and said
you go west, young man

Stepping down off my platform shoes
sixty-nine in the afternoon
and I'm waiting for someone in the know
like Pirner tells me on the radio
says take it from someone who's been there before
you go west, young man

and I'm looking for someone to do
my thinking for me 'till I come through
the state line highway signs says you
have gone west, young man

and it feel like I got something to prove
but in some ways it's just something to do
the state line highway sign says you
have gone west, young man.

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Music

Tags:

• liz phair
• girlysound
• cassette
• go west
• 1991
• exile in guyville
• whip smart
• hot white gold
• on tape
• hiss orchid
• solo voice
• guitar
• 4-track
• demo
• portastudio
• journal tape recordings

[okremington]

I really like this version better than the studio.

[Optiphoria]

This always has been and always will be my favorite song by her.

[besrarkledlimbs22]

Excellent Song! Thank you so much for this! Best days ever! :D

[sp4eva1]

beautiful... so mellow and pretty

[madeyes4u]

My favorite Liz Phair song. It's got so much feeling. I can't decide if I like this version or the album version better....

[thewalking]

Awesome, thanks.

[ThreeEscapeas]

LOVE IT!

thanks for posting!