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)

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)

#MusicChallenge #SoundtrackThis 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 🎵 youtu.be/jUjLDvrLDhg?...

I met a 70 year old lady with a killer ass A 70 year old lady with a killer ass I took her back home but she gave me a pass 70 year old lady with a killer ass “70 Year Old Lady” by Cash Rivers and the Sinners, Blue Balls Lincoln (2018)

Winter comes to those who pray It’s cold for just another day And summer sings the same old song The children play and pray For every day To go away And come again The same again from “Winter Comes to Those Who Pray” by Robert Pollard, Jack Sells the Cow (2012)

The foxy wileless monster's larders More peaceful than a human hammer The great pretend transmissionaries Evolving without you Dissolving without you As you know It’s just too slow on the tundra from “On the Tundra” by Guided By Voices, Propeller (1992)

Guided By Voices lyrics are mostly nonsense that I tend to ignore but every once in a while Rob Pollard will sing a simple lyric like “I’ve come to thank you for such delicious pie” and you’re like, “Damn, how does he do it!??”

Dear onion, I salute you From a moving window Dear onion, I shall put you in a place of silence I will try to be respectful To everything under the sun from “Dear Onion” by Guided By Voices, Strut of Kings (2024)

Time to get into Guided By Voices

You gave it to him for whatever you were hopin’ No one was off to work, you made it seem wide open And now it’s deafening, by silence be destroyed Cry of an insect, of a baby, of the void from “Silence Be Destroyed” by Robert Pollard, The Crawling Distance (2009)

#LookAndSee (266) #MusicChallenge #MusicSky Beat Your Wings · Guided By Voices “When the days have come to pass Our journey broken, gone at last We'll beat our wings…” youtu.be/OdqYhO2FX3w?... Robert Pollard demo ~ youtu.be/DrhTQK0KZkw?...

He was hoisted in that suit Full of fluid After 57 years of breathing bad oxygen No stones in the hand No birds in the bush He ascended in the hour Of his lighthouse resurrection from “The Lighthouse Resurrection” by Guided By Voices, Thick Rich and Delicious (2025)

#readandplay (546) #MusicChallenge #MusicSky Marchers in Orange · Guided By Voices “Yet, but wait: it's time to collide, decide, if you will A purpose for the marchers in orange And still a circus for the children in disguise Throwing bones to the drug-sniffing dogs” youtu.be/ZpT8mEbSQYI?...

The endless sound of shutting down Your spiraling notebook factory Give back your inkwell of egos System’s leaking Spare you your attention to the endless dance recital Give to you your lesson as you’re barely speaking from “Huddled” by Guided By Voices, Crystal Nuns Cathedral (2022)

Gave you a lesson And you didn’t forget it That’s why I’m giving you extra credit Extra credit Extra credit from “Miles of Concentration” by Ricked Wicky, I Sell the Circus (2015)

*Robert Pollard voice* HOT PRIESTS! HAAAAAAHT PRIESTS! HOT. PRIESTS.

And I’ll be taking you soon now To read the orange signs And I say now to you, so what? The useless fade in time from “Your Name is Wild” by Guided By Voices Under the Bushes, Under the Stars (1996)

In the window of my world a heart’s birth brings meaning Kicking and screaming In the window of my world Yeah in the window of my world shoulder to shoulder I’m feeling bolder Crashing through my world, in my world from “Window of My World” by Guided By Voices, Half Smiles of the Decomposed (2004)

And realize the entertainment Rise above the self-containment Compromise will be the arrangement For cocksoldiers And their postwar stubble They dream tonight from “Cocksoldiers and Their Postwar Stubble” by Guided By Voices, Sunfish Holy Breakfast (1996)

At times I wish I were dead Busy people dancing all over my head Real shock value with every move they make Real bad headache with every step they take from “Drinker’s Peace” by Guided By Voices, Same Place the Fly Got Smashed (1990)

What makes the hothouse enticing? Groundskeeper, actors, and lords of astrology Lost in its ever evolving technology from “Sunflower Wildman (Remember Him?)” by Circus Devils, Stomping Grounds (2016)

I am breathing Yet I see no sky Things without wings Have begun to fly from “Evil Speakers” by Guided By Voices, Alien Lanes (1995)

That bird is the word or two I warn you Alright, no one cares but you Will you bring my crown? Will you try your best? Especially aftеr four more shots I need that from “A Tribute to Beatle Bob” by Guided By Voices, Thick Rich and Delicious (2025)

#readandplay (542) My Valuable Hunting Knife GBV ... my valuable hunting knife She will shine like a new girl I want to shout out our love to the world hit it Everything I talk about I talk about with you It will not rust through the tears 25th Anniversary video youtu.be/-Mgt0xDkBng?...

Don’t drink and drive Stay at home and eat from “When Growing Was Simple” by Guided By Voices, Styles We Paid For (2020)

Jack was awesome! More of that, please! Robert Pollard still wears the crown.

Green beans Green beans They’re green, they’re beans, they’re green beans How can you fuck it up? from “Green Beans” by Cash Rivers and the Sinners, Loose Shoes (2019)

There’s a Robert Pollard lyric from a song called “Larger Massachusetts” that always gives me hope when I hear it: “The medium-sized world is making a comeback / The world at large is drowning”

What is Guided By Voices’ deal?