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Lyrics by Guided By Voices, Robert Pollard, Circus Devils, Boston Spaceships, Ricked Wicky, Cash Rivers and the Sinners, The Takeovers, Teenage Guitar and other Robert Pollard bands. Fan account with no official connection to GBV. Long live Rockathon.

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Irontuna @irontuna.bsky.social · 10h

I seek to understand me
All of my impurities
And evils yet unknown

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Ennui Doofen @ennuidoofen.bsky.social · 10h

I AM A SCIENTIST!

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scary dank serpico @abh93.bsky.social · 5h

*tobin sprout voice*

cybertruck, i have no brain

ivermectin every day

sell the house, post hog on main

sit up front, the back seat's stained

Reyhan Harmanci @harmancipants.bsky.social · 10h

We wanted to know what it was like to own a Cybertruck. So @zoeschiffer.bsky.social went to the desert got this absolutely amazing quotes (and Michelle Groskopf took the pictures!) www.wired.com/story/owning...

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Guided By Voices lyrics @gbvlyrics.bsky.social · 7h

I will be a monk
Tried and ruin and sworn
I will come alone
I will try by best to
Atone my crime in silence
Never be another day to break my heart

I will be a monk
And in my days
I’ll owe no one

I will be a monk

“I Will Be a Monk” by Guided By Voices, Universe Room (2025)

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Guided By Voices lyrics @gbvlyrics.bsky.social · 20h

Said trust in the King of Overstock
Invest in his wisdom and learn
There’s less to go around if everyone counts
But if you’ve got the money to burn
Then you will be in
Always good faith

from “Lord of Overstock” by Guided By Voices, Under the Bushes Under the Stars (1996)

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Guided By Voices lyrics @gbvlyrics.bsky.social · 1d

Pay for your warehouse
Your wear-out
The what you got
The what it is
The soul you built
Blow up the hill

“A Puritan for Storage” by Circus Devils, Pinball Mars (2003)

Guided By Voices lyrics @gbvlyrics.bsky.social · 1d

In short red letters
Bad news over yesterday
More lightning rods
More printing shops and keys
Less wildfires
Perhaps that discussion
Would please
The trees

from “Birds in the Pipe” by Guided By Voices, Crystal Nuns Cathedral (2022)

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Guided By Voices lyrics @gbvlyrics.bsky.social · Dec 30

But do we really need to see
All her punchdrunk history?
And which of it might hold the key
For the exit to her destiny

from “The Best of Jill Hives” by Guided By Voices, Earthquake Glue (2003)

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Alex Pearlstein @alexpearlstein.bsky.social · 2d

As a GBV guy, can't help but share this. Really captures the output and the nuance that is Robert Pollard - America's greatest living rock n' roll songwriter.

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A Universe Within A Universe Within A Universe: A Conversation With GBV Producer Travis Harrison

On recording GBV's current run of albums, including their electrifying, live-in-the-studio forthcoming album, 'Thick Rich and Delicious,' out October 31

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Guided By Voices lyrics @gbvlyrics.bsky.social · 2d

Say
That you’ll never run too far away
Even with all the answers out there
Where it’s brighter but no one will care
Half as much as I care about you

from “Learning to Hunt” by Guided By Voices, Mag Earwhig! (1997)

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Guided By Voices lyrics @gbvlyrics.bsky.social · 2d

I hide myself in dream
From Howdy Doody’s terrorist regime
Other than that you know I’m alright

from “Give Up the Grape” by Robert Pollard, Normal Happiness (2006)

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Guided By Voices lyrics @gbvlyrics.bsky.social · Jun 11

I am Columbus
With wings to take us
I’m taking it back
I’m drinking your wine

from “I Am Columbus” by Guided By Voices, Motivational Jumpsuit (2014)

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Guided By Voices lyrics @gbvlyrics.bsky.social · 3d

Columbus
And all of his troops
Were photographing bulldozers
Before they flattened back the earth

from “Evolution Circus” by Guided By Voices, Space Gun (2018)

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Guided By Voices lyrics @gbvlyrics.bsky.social · May 2

Their origins are unknown
Incomplete
Forgetful of any zeitgeist
The Riches
Krupas
Moons
Starrs

from “They Don’t Play the Drums Anymore” by Guided By Voices, Styles We Paid For (2020)

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Jer Thorp @jerthorp.bsky.social · 5d

Favorite GBV song?

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Guided By Voices lyrics @gbvlyrics.bsky.social · 4d

Bright eyes won't satisfy truth
They seem to know me
But really don't seek to show me
Portals that aren't even real
Are better than pathways claimed to exist
Above or below me

from “Fictional Environment Dream” by Guided By Voices, Strut of Kings (2024)

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Guided By Voices lyrics @gbvlyrics.bsky.social · Dec 10

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

from “Marchers in Orange” by Guided By Voices, Vampire On Titus (1993)

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Guided By Voices lyrics @gbvlyrics.bsky.social · 5d

Rise and fall
A chain to the moon
Breaker broke all builders
A bridge and a spoon
Rise and fall
A chain to the moon
Breaker broke all builders
A bridge and a spoon

from “Chain to the Moon” by Guided By Voices, Class Clown Spots a UFO (2012)

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Guided By Voices lyrics @gbvlyrics.bsky.social · Feb 24

Another fine outing, pointing and shouting
“Look, it’s baseball!
Look, it’s baseball!”

from “Look, It’s Baseball” by Guided By Voices, Tonics & Twisted Chasers (1996)

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Craig Jenkins @craigsj.bsky.social · 5d

[robert pollard voice]

Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 6d

Of all the clerics they could have popped, those ICE idiots had to hit Hot Priest.

Presbyterian minister David Black on CNN, who was shot with pepper balls while praying outside an ICE facility.

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Guided By Voices lyrics @gbvlyrics.bsky.social · 5d

A living necklace of warts
A curse of leeches to each gaunt philosophy
A crown of scabs
To ninety kings
All suckerfish
A bucket of stewed assholes

from “A Living Necklace of Warts” by Circus Devils, Mother Skinny (2010)

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🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman (Horrifying) @josie.zone · 6d

I've really gotta listen to more Tobin Sprout

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Guided By Voices lyrics @gbvlyrics.bsky.social · 6d

Which way to a star?
At last an equator
Equal to no one
That’s why you are
That’s why you are

from “Bellicose Starling” by Guided By Voices, Zeppelin Over China (2019)

Guided By Voices lyrics @gbvlyrics.bsky.social · 6d

Bonus incentives
For your gasoline discounts
Should have seen rock and roll
Had nowhere left to go

from “Song and Dance” by Guided By Voices, Nowhere to Go But Up (2023)

Guided By Voices lyrics @gbvlyrics.bsky.social · 7d

It’s gone to hell
You know that it has
You run to tell
But it’s all gone
Can tell a lot
By over-and-out
Beware what you pray
When it’s all gone on
Beyond nature’s light

from “Shadow Port” by Robert Pollard, Standard Gargoyle Decisions (2007)