Happy Obama week, ya’ll. Wasn’t it so great that when Barack won? I totally cried during his speech when he mentioned the 106 year old woman. I kind of imagined what the world will look like when I am 307 years old (medication advances will have stopped us from dying) and I got to see all the great advances in the world in gay rights, such as gays and straights finally using the same legal entity to form families (what we now call marriage) and the first gay president. Should I start politically aligning as a homo-supremacist?

Point is, I was listening to Guided By Voices‘ Bee Thousand the other day and really felt like maybe Robert Pollard was predicting the future. Normally I’d abhor posting song lyrics on a site, but I’m making an exception for myself because I think Guided By Voices may be the best ever (realize when you read this that I also fetishize low-fi production), and I don’t understand why the world doesn’t agree. Normally I think that posting song lyrics is for teenagers who have livejournals and check out people on Make Out Club back when it was basically a weird message board in 1998, a time when the Internet was young and we didn’t know better. You might as well consider this entry living at gmsc.livejournal.com.

After the jump, lyrics to the song that maybe predicted our current location in history, “Echoes Myron.”

Tower to the skies
An academy of lies
And what goes up
Surely must come down
And we felt the mighty blow-up
With the walls coming down
Or something like that

Most of us are quite pleased
With the same old song
And all of a sudden I’m relatively sane
With everything to lose and nothing to gain
Or something like that

Man of wisdom and man of compromise
Man of weak flesh in an armored disguise
All fall down

If its right you can tell echos myron like a siren
With endurance like the liberty bell
And he tells you of the dreamers
But he’s cracked up like the road
And he’d like to lift us up, but were a very heavy load
And were finally here and shit yeah its cool
And shouldn’t it be - or something like that

Right, guys? So fuckin’ deep. If you couldn’t tell the first half of the song is about the Bush years, the fall of that regime, and how Obama wants to lift us up but it’s gonna be a hard job. Love you, Bob. You make great music.

One Response to “Bob Pollard Was Such Prophet, Guys”

1. Arch Says:
   November 8th, 2008 at 5:33 pm

   Current Mood: relieved
   Current Music: Their Biggest Win - Robert Pollard

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