Guided By Voices lyrics

Robert Pollard

As throats are fed
By the luck of trappers
Knowing the halfway point
To the new millennium
Commanding wheels
Return the vision
It’s the final decision
And it’s halfway to the final millennium

from “Tenth Century” by Guided By Voices, How Do You Spell Heaven (2017)

My fav Guided By Voices song.

It’s very thick in the community
Always backing up this time of year
And the quislings with their beepers and firemen in the garden
Toss a coin to watch it bounce from tramp to tramp

from “The Neighborhood Trapeze” by Cosmos, Jar of Jam Ton of Bricks (2009)

There is a funny creepy story about where Bob got the title for that album, Same Place the Fly Got Smashed, also a line in the song Local Mix-up/Murder Charge.

From the indispensable Bob biography by Matthew Cutter.

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I love a girl named Colleen
But she loves a bouncer six feet ten
And that’s a mistake ‘cause he’s Colleen’s hero
This is a song called “Calling Zero”

from “Calling Zero” by Go Back Snowball, Calling Zero (2002)

Gay Bob Pollard: I've entered this game of dicks with guys in the ass of me

Trained of selflessness
Manifested in psychobabble and holiday
Outs are pattern
In pasteurization
You, the priest
You, the creator
Of self-pain
In the house you built
On stilts
Above the crashing waves
Psychic realtor

“You Can’t Hold Your Women” by Robert Pollard, Kid Marine (1999)

Bird shop and planted near a rib
A ring tone
Close to the nearest heart
A robot strike zone
The sun was heavy like a medicine ball
I saw the lizard on the red brick wall

from “Lizard On the Red Brick Wall” by Guided By Voices, Tremblers and Goggles By Rank (2022)

Gather the amps
And dampen the camps
The day is done
When we see the sun
Perhaps then the race is won

from “Break Even” by Guided By Voices, The Grand Hour (1993)

Thank you, Jane

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The lyric Robert Pollard is most proud of: “Reduce my felony to a misdemeanour”

goddamn it alien lanes kinda hits

Dancing through the night
With the ghost of Nicky Highpockets
Shit birds in the mist
Aiming for the eye sockets

from “Stiffs on Parade” by Circus Devils, Capsized! (2011)

Discussing Wallace Chambers
I hear you talking
Trusting Wallace Chambers
Obscene, not absurd
Convincing Broderick Lewis
Crawl before walking
Original no-neck savage
Fishing for birds

from “Discussing Wallace Chambers” by Guided By Voices, Devil Between My Toes (1987)

Come on, Mr. Christian
Hand me the jug
I won’t take the boot for a coward’s salute
Not gonna weep now
Come on, Mr. Christian
Hand me the plug
I’ve seen better heads in animal beds
Let’s go to sleep now

from “Come On Mr. Christian” by Guided By Voices, Please Be Honest (2016)

We’re the bums on familiar lawns
Hunt us down to the rivers gone
But some nights we forgot our blames
On the fast night I could write my name

from “Found Obstruction Rock ‘n’ Rolls (We’re the Ones Who Believe in Love)” by Boston Spaceships, Zero to 99 (2009)

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Prompt 1 - Fly

Very self indulgent, I've wanted to make a badge design based on Guided By Voices' album "Same Place the Fly Got Smashed" for a while, so I figured this would be a good excuse to draw that idea 🪰

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We went ahead
We went ahead
And set it up
And knocked it down
You see it falling and now it's crumbling
To the cold unforgivable ground
You did it
You had a hand in it
And now it’s circling around
Oh yeah, it’s circling around

from “Red Gas Circle” by Guided By Voices, Propeller (1992)

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Parallel lines on a slow decline
Tractor GRAPE chain
Better yet, let's all get wet
On the tractor GRAPE chain

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Space operators switch on the hype when the batman sees the ball
Reality is based only on what their screens display, that’s all
It’s going to be a blast
Be the first or the last

from “The Batman Sees the Ball” by Guided By Voices, Earth Man Blues (2021)

The winners are the ministers and undertakers
For body, soul and mind they work like bullies
The losers are the choosers who are bound
Not to be around
They may be nowhere to be found

from “Work Like Bullies” by Phantom Tollbooth, Beard of Lightning (2003)

Climb a mountain to the valley
Drive a highway to the alley
Make it rain, keep on tryin’
For our horses and domestic lion, Jackie

from “Cousin Jackie” by Guided By Voices, La La Land (2023)

I can see my dog
Putting out her paws trying to trip my mother
I can see my dog
Pissing at the foot of my passed out brother

from “I Can See My Dog” by the Takeovers, Bad Football (2007)

Careful still and move your feet
As if walking on ice
Be innocent and shun the trite philosophies
You’ve had enough of these
Why do we have to be so trusted?

from “Flunky Minnows” by Guided By Voices, English Little League (2013)

I don’t recall a moment of my life ever thinking, “Sorry, GBV. I just don’t have 2 1/2 minutes for you right now.”
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So many other songwriters would kill to have written a lyric like "My cup of tea used to be the dying sun"

Tired life
Tired of on-the-run
Tired nights
My cup of tea used to be the dying sun
Tired heart
Tired hand
Tired man
Tired life

from “Tired Life” by Robert Pollard, Space City Kicks (2011)

I’m sinking on a weighed-down brain
To see what lingers
Unhealthy every place we drank
And face another day like this
With every minute, every hour draining slowly

from “Roosevelt’s Marching Band” by Guided By Voices, Tremblers and Goggles By Rank (2022)