Liz Phair (born Elizabeth Clark Phair on April 17, 1967 in New Haven, Connecticut) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. Phair's entry into the music industry began when she met guitarist Chris Brokaw, a member of the band Come. Brokaw was visiting her San Francisco loft-mate Nora Maccoby when he heard Phair's songs, and encouraged her to record them. After moving back to Chicago, Phair began writing songs and recording homemade tapes under the name Girly Sound, and supported herself by selling her drawings on the streets of Chicago. She soon became apart of the alternative music scene in Chicago and became friends with Material Issue and Urge Overkill, two of Chicago's upstart bands to go national in the early 1990s, as well as Brad Wood and John Henderson, head of Feel Good All Over, an independent label in Chicago.
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Liz Phair

Okay, this guy walks into a bar
No, i'm just, i'm just fucking with you, i'm kidding
No, there's this, this young bull and this old bull
And they're standing on top of a hill
And i tried to tell you before
That that's why i left california

So they're standing on top of this hill, right?
And they're looking out over a pasture full of cows
Whole fucking pasture
And the young bull turns to the old bull, and he goes,
"i got this really good idea."
And they old bull's like, "yeah?"

And i tried to tell you before
That that's why i left california

"yeah," he's like, "yeah, yeah, i got this really good idea.
Let's run down that hill and fuck one of those cows."
And the old bull just looks at him, you know he's just looking at him
He's like, "look, i got a better idea."
And the young bull's like, "oh yeah, what's your fucking brilliant idea?"
And the old bull goes...

And i tried to tell you before
That that's why i left california

And the old bull goes, "let's walk down that hill and fuck all of those cows, dig?"
You know, like he ain't been in town long or something, i dunno

And i tried to tell you before
That that's why i left california