| Guided by Voices – Everywhere With Helicopter Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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This song is about flying everywhere you go to in a helicopter. I mean, you know, duh. |
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| Guided by Voices – My Valuable Hunting Knife Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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For me, this song makes me think of meeting someone new and being infatuated with them - like a shiny new toy (or in this case, a valuable hunting knife just purchased) - in this case the knife becomes the girl, and the girl is used as a metaphor for a knife. And it's about imagining a long lasting relationship with this person even though you just met them. Of course, the knife is eventually going to cut you. Or maybe it's a song about how knives are better than women. "They ARE better than women! You don;t know what I've been through!" |
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| Guided by Voices – Back To The Lake Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| This song has the same meaning most of Bob's other songs have, namely, none at all, for the most part. | |
| Guided by Voices – A Visit to the Creep Doctor Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Bob mentioned "The Creep Doctor/Dr. Creep" on "Relaxation of the Asshole" (or was it the sequel?) in regards to a guy in Columbus he traded ten copies of Devil Between My Toes in exchange for a copy of an album by Heavy The World, a copy which Mitch Mitchell eventually stole. I don't know if that has anything to do with this song or not, though. | |
| Guided by Voices – 14 Cheerleader Coldfront Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I think this song is beautiful. According to the "official" Bob Pollard/GBV "biography" by Jim Greer, while the lyrics themselves don't have any deep meaning, the title came from a high school sports title (the actual high school and sport evade me, as I have returned my copy of the book to the person who lent it to me - GBV fans return things that are lent to them, darn it) that Bob and Tobin Sprout attended in which, during halftime, a line of 14 cheerleaders came forth, looking about as bored as can be. "Look," either Bob or Tobin said (obviously, I'm not a very good storyteller - maybe you should buy the book yourself), "a fourteen cheerleader cold front." Afterward, when Bob came across Toby playing a particular melody on a guitar, Bob began to write the lyrics to 14 Cheerleader Cold Front to it. Or so the story goes, anyway |
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