Name: Spirits Grow
Duration: P00H04M23S
Description: I really wanted to make a song that feels like GBV, by combining some of my favorite elements of their music with words that honor the band without directly doing so. The quick realization was that creating obscure but specific lyrics and anthemic choruses is extremely hard for regular joes, and Robert Pollard is a straight up genius.

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

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I really wanted to make a song that feels like GBV, by combining some of my favorite elements of their music with words that honor the band without directly doing so. The quick realization was that creating obscure but specific lyrics and anthemic choruses is extremely hard for regular joes, and Robert Pollard is a straight up genius.

lyrics

Literal eyes, and the might of the post-punk dead men
Growing in size ’til the speaker pops and round the clock obscurity
Learning to crawl with a lifetime of untangled energy
Breaking the walls into the field they run

They lived in scientific lingo
While underground
Until the spirits moved a mountain
Unleashing sound

Let’s play something that we’ve never played before
Give it accidental tension on the 4
A little late but not delaying
Spirits grow

Let’s go somewhere that we never thought we’d see
The next room’s brighter when you weep to water trees
A little late but not delaying
Spirits grow

Middle ground men take a hot shot at a pop rock community
To the new end of town where masters ascend
So come along and grab the good kids
Gather round like all of us did
We’re an army young and old and strong

They lived in scientific lingo
While underground
Until the spirits moved a mountain
Unleashing sound

Let’s play something that we’ve never played before
Give it accidental tension on the 4
A little late but not delaying
Spirits grow

Let’s go somewhere that we never thought we’d see
The next room’s brighter when you weep to water trees
A little late but not delaying
Spirits grow

credits

from How Do You Spell GBV, released December 14, 2018
Written, performed, and produced by Matt Grogan
Recorded in a basement in Athens, GA

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A Fan's Guided By Voices Podcast Dayton, Ohio

Self-Inflicted Aural Nostalgia: A Fan's Guided By Voices Podcast spent all of 2018 taking an in-depth look at every GBV record, starting with their 1987 debut.

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