Name: Ruby Jewels Glowing
Duration: P00H01M37S
Description: I was in the middle of a major GBV jag when they played the Grog Shop in Cleveland on their Space Gun tour. I hadn’t seen them since they toured for Do The Collapse, and I was really buzzed on the energy of the crowd this night. It felt like going to a High School reunion. Only with more beer. The morning after the show I picked up my guitar and this song popped out.

New Janky Gougers - Ruby Jewels Glowing

from How Do You Spell GBV by A Fan's Guided By Voices Podcast

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I was in the middle of a major GBV jag when they played the Grog Shop in Cleveland on their Space Gun tour. I hadn’t seen them since they toured for Do The Collapse, and I was really buzzed on the energy of the crowd this night. It felt like going to a High School reunion. Only with more beer. The morning after the show I picked up my guitar and this song popped out.

lyrics

Ruby jewels glowing on a darkened stage
The floor is getting restless
Those of us who refuse to act our age
Are getting ready to impress* us

This is not make believe
But neither is it real
A momentary distortion
Of what we think and feel
And if you just understood
You could be here with me…

Cigarettes glowing on a frightened stage
In the still between explosions

*Impressment, colloquially the ‘press gang,’ is the taking of men into a military or naval force by compulsion.

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from How Do You Spell GBV, released December 14, 2018
Written and performed by Todd Thurman

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