Guided By Voices lyrics

Rally of several hundred people in front of a large red Calder sculpture, photo taken from the back of the crowd.

At the #StandUpForScience rally in Chicago today, the Guided By Voices song went through my head every time a speaker said "I am a scientist."

Me? I am a lost soul; I shoot myself with rock and roll.

"We'll even the score in WW IV". Robert Pollard.

Local Mix-Up / Murder Charge YouTube video by Guided by Voices - Topic

Saturday sounds…golden light of early GBV. Frenetic, all over the place sonically.👊🎶

So watch out for Joker Bob
I wish he were just a distant relative
But he’s razor-close
Like brill-cream gelatin
Icy cold acid in his heart…

Guided By Voices - Local Mix-Up / Murder Charge

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Blimps Go 90 YouTube video by Guided by Voices - Topic

#MusicByNumbers #MusicChallenge #MusicSky | No. 90

"Blimps go 90, on with the show
Couldn't you see that, now, didn't you know?
Hey now, didn't you know?"

"Blimps Go 90" by Guided by Voices ("Alien Lanes", 1995)

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The night screams for contact and clue
I must keep a journal
I must boast a victory
And the hellfire is dying around you, my love
Around you, my love…

Guided By Voices - My Son Cool

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Quality Of Armor YouTube video by Guided by Voices - Topic

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Mar 7: Final

Quality Of Armor · Guided By Voices

As we were sitting there in the final stages
Staring at the screen as the battle rages…

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Finally his ticker stopped
And they buried him with a smile on his puss
And that’s the electrifying conclusion

from “Local Mix-Up/Murder Charge” by Guided By Voices, Same Place the Fly Got Smashed (1990)

Truly I saw a fallen wig upon its way
Truly I saw the undetermined person
Truly I saw going up and down on
Truly I saw the empties fired away

from “In the House of Queen Charles Augustus” by Robert Pollard, Motel of Fools (2003)

Oh
I don’t like to
Hear you crying
Oh
I don’t like to
Hear you crying
It’s such a downer
It’s such a downer

from “Downer” by Guided By Voices, Sweating the Plague (2019)

Introducing the Amazing Rockethead
You know what the deal is, dude
Excuse me, Napoleon
But I gotta know
Why I gotta stand
In a highway
In a highway
Where nothing goes my way

from “Big Chief Chinese Restaurant” by Guided By Voices, Alien Lanes (1995)

She makes it quicker
and competition thicker
Designed to spark up a real weak ticker
No crossed finger discounts
or false advertising
No money down, no run around,
no crass patronizing

Her special offer is quite the bargain
No stipulations or sales pitch jargon
Her name is destiny, it’s destiny calling
The ground is untouchable
The sky isn’t falling

from “She Lives in an Airport” by Guided By Voices, The Bears for Lunch (2012)

A slow motion movie
And I with my suit minus the middle
Ragged bomb with sleeves
Holes in the knees and I’m moving along
Moving along

“Suit Minus the Middle” by Robert Pollard, Honey Locust Honky Tonk (2013)

Sit up and beg
For slivers of language
That the night air might offer
Pin back your ears and feed, alright

from “Wire Greyhounds” by Guided By Voices, Universal Truths and Cycles (2002)

Going down
And back up now
Climb another wall
And maybe you’ll discover
Everyone’s gone

from “Spanish Coin” by Guided By Voices, It’s Not Them. It Couldn’t Be Them. It Is Them! (2021)

And days away from your army
And spent with the whimsy kings and slaves
A girl of God becomes a cash flower
A catalog of garden and grave

from “Kisses to the Crying Cooks” by Guided By Voices, Fast Japanese Spin Cycle (1994)

The lecturer said,
“A word is worth a thousand pictures”
The teacher said,
“Sorry kids, the cartoon is over”

from “Bouncing of the Heads” by Circus Devils, Escape (2014)

Instead of “O, Tannenbaum,” l nominate Guided By Voices, “I Am a Tree.”

Quite broken
A grand array of mustards
Drooling nectar
Through apple cores galore
Sinners and wanderers
Quite chosen

from “Glittering Parliaments” by Guided By Voices, Please Be Honest (2016)

"Robert Pollard's discography is second nature to us Guided By Voices fans. It's easy to forget that the average person probably only knows Boston Spaceships and From A Compound Eye." "And Airport 5, of course." "Of course." (edit of the XKCD comic "Average Familiarity" https://xkcd.com/2501/ )

the guided by voices fan experience

Comes and goes
It grows and wants to come out
And through
Terra tactile reaction
Supposed
Goes upside-down
The walls of one of your houses
Imbued
With photo-magnetic attraction

from “Phantasmagoric Upstarts” by Guided By Voices, Thick Rich and Delicious (2025)

And if an innocent minute lives for the light
The day is right
Define a line to hold back the night inside
A single glimpse of purity in a flickering light
Cheyenne sees right

from “Cheyenne” by Guided By Voices, Universal Truths and Cycles (2002)

We have found
What appears to be the head
Of the operation
Somewhat lighter
And a little smaller than expected
But we’ve not yet found the body
Of the sawed-off head
Not yet found the head
Head

“The Head” by Guided By Voices, Let’s Go Eat the Factory (2012)

Impressions of a leg
How might I know you?
The prime example’s made flesh, I say
Impressions of a younger day

from “Impressions of a Leg” by Airport 5, Life Starts Here (2002)

And her mother will greet you
And a river will reach you
Breaking out to make you slave again

🎶But I believed you…
no need for further questioning.
I'm gonna leave with you,
you can teach me all you know.
Which way will we go now
on our trip to taller windows?
I really don't know now…
I really don't know… 🎶

Bob Pollard is a great American poet

In the summer that you came
There was something eating everyone
And the sunshine fund was low
We couldn’t greet you with a simple hello

from “Smothered in Hugs” by Guided By Voices, Bee Thousand (1994)

Make it a day
At newly now wonderful Bongo Zoo
Not only the animals know
And you can see where that they go
And you can eat what that they eat

from “Cartoon Fashion (Bongo Lake)” by Guided By Voices, Tremblers and Goggles By Rank (2022)

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04 Dec: Hungover

"Everybody Thinks I'm A Raincloud When I'm Not Looking" (Guided By Voices)

🎵 Every day it's another world
And every change of tomorrow
Hungover and hungry to fix it 🎵

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