Waaay too early for you to love it yet. This is one of the greatest rock records of all time, and possibly the best among the lo-fi GbV classics. Consider yourself fortunate to have found this and good listening.
my father played me bee thousand in the car when i was about 5 or 6 and after that he would come home from work during winter and would put his cold hands on my face and always joked about this song when he did it
Being honest, a great drunk-shouting song this is. Unfortunately, i'm always ending up alone, singing this song. Great song, fell in love with it years ago and it's one of those...........; 'she wants me to come but i'm never going there" gets me everytime. Great sentence i think. THX GBV
And imagine 12 years later I walk down Lincoln Avenue in Chicago and hear the beginning of this song and I run there is GBV playing my favorite song of theirs and there’s a giant crowd, diverse, young and old. Singing along. I wish you could have been there, Jakob. I’m sober now but drinking or not we all were drunk-shouting.
this song makes me think so vividly of the childhood i spent in the little society of neighbors and friends that used to be beside the river where i live, until all the houses were knocked down. i miss that feeling
Saw them perform this at their first Los Angeles show ever at Jabberjaw in the early 90s. From then on I knew that these guys were something really, really special.
Just discovered that this one was orginial made by Guided By Voices. Been loving ...And you will know us by the trail of deads version for so many years.
I remember listening to Bob play this song acoustically in our living room. He was working on the final draft of it before recording it for the album a week later.
Ok so having been in not one but TWO relationships with mentally ill people, I think I can finally say this is what the song might be about. "Old friends fading away from you" is the first clue, shit happens, usually because they can't deal/understand your feelings. "and we looked, and we passed, through the hallway of shatterproof glass". Kinda self explanatory, psych wards, or prison visiting areas, have that as standard. "She runs though the night as if nobody's there, she screams and she cries and ignores all the stares". Again, mentally ill people. As well, "she screams and she cries" might well mean the lady in question is plagued by shit she and only she can see and experience. Doesn't have to be an outright delusion, more than likely feelings that only she feels i.e. depression. "She wants me to come but I'm never going there". Deep line, can refer to both the lady needing the man's help but he can't feel what she feels nor can he get on that level. Also, might be in the aforementioned pysch ward or prison, and is in a life the man cannot get to. As for the name of the song, well beats me lol
I read a blog somewhere (I don’t remember where unfortunately) that talks about how gbv’s lyrics often mean nothing to you until that one moment that they do, and then it hits you like a fucking truck. This comment reminded me of that.
Any one know where this film is coming from? (ahhaah Gold Heart Mountain top...) SERIOUSLY! this isn't where they did Deliverance before the river got messed up?
Thought the same thing. Moreso the first half of the song. It's the earthy drop-tuned guitar and quiet vocals. I can't think of a Nick Drake song that sounds like the second half because I don't think he ever really raised his voice. Haven't listened in a while though so I might be forgetting something
Sometimes I forget how much I love this song.
The entire world exists in that 1 minute and 45 seconds
she wants me to come but im never going there
Waaay too early for you to love it yet. This is one of the greatest rock records of all time, and possibly the best among the lo-fi GbV classics. Consider yourself fortunate to have found this and good listening.
my father played me bee thousand in the car when i was about 5 or 6 and after that he would come home from work during winter and would put his cold hands on my face and always joked about this song when he did it
Being honest, a great drunk-shouting song this is. Unfortunately, i'm always ending up alone, singing this song.
Great song, fell in love with it years ago and it's one of those...........;
'she wants me to come but i'm never going there" gets me everytime. Great sentence i think.
THX GBV
And imagine 12 years later I walk down Lincoln Avenue in Chicago and hear the beginning of this song and I run there is GBV playing my favorite song of theirs and there’s a giant crowd, diverse, young and old. Singing along. I wish you could have been there, Jakob. I’m sober now but drinking or not we all were drunk-shouting.
this song makes me think so vividly of the childhood i spent in the little society of neighbors and friends that used to be beside the river where i live, until all the houses were knocked down. i miss that feeling
Guided by voices and Fugazi are the best 2 gigs i ever seen.
Saw them perform this at their first Los Angeles show ever at Jabberjaw in the early 90s. From then on I knew that these guys were something really, really special.
Just discovered that this one was orginial made by Guided By Voices. Been loving ...And you will know us by the trail of deads version for so many years.
"...and we looked / and we passed / down the hallways of shatterproof glass." Oh yes we did! 13.5 years of intoxicating bliss with a soulmate.
It sounds like as if someone found a shoe box of home recordings from Syd Barrett.
Nice analogy. Robert Pollard also said the music was sorta meant to sound like bootleg beatles demos also.
this song is so fucking good i can't believe it
one of those songs that if i had never heard it life would just not be the same
saw Bob in Bastrop Texas a few weeks ago. He sang this and it was awesome. love him.....uncle Bob.
how can this song be so good and so short? this is so cruel...
I just heard this for the first time...beautiful...absolutely fabulous video footage!
This song sounds so fucking EPIC! Love that part when they both join in to sing loud
This song is so much more real now that I'm over 40.
This band is the "Seinfeld" of rock.
"What's it all mean?"
Who cares.
genius.
And this is my fav. from Bee Thousand !
Great job. I love both GbV and Roscoe Holcomb. The video and the music mesh together quite well. It stirs up a feel-good emotion for sure.
Thanks for introducing that name.
Terrific stuff!!
infinitely playing in my mind.
One of my favorite GBV songs, wish it was a little longer though.
i love this damn song so much
LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the second part of this song... 'she runs through the night....'
I wish it was longer
Cold hams, touching my face.
This song was constantly in my mind as I read Haruki Murakami's Norwegian Wood, especially the parts concerning Naoko.
I love the evocative background scenery with the music.
SHE RUNS THROUGH THE NIGHT AS IF NOBODY CARES
Saw Kim Deal sing this with GBV opening for Pavement at Roseland Ballroom, 1994.
Is there footage of this anywhere?!
Shit, I wish you’d just not said anything now.
Such a perfect vid for this song.
Perfect video for this. Thank you.
Awesome song!
Ive been sleeping on this song too long
I remember listening to Bob play this song acoustically in our living room. He was working on the final draft of it before recording it for the album a week later.
Heard him play it tonight. The flame still burns.
so cool and haunting!
she runs through the night as if nobody cares
she screams and she cries and ignores all the stares
:)
this video and song are somewhat between luis bunuel and leonard cohen... great sound, i felt like on a catapult aiming back to the early 90's. thanx
The video is Roscoe Holcomb playing the banjo on his porch
Wow, the video works so well with the song.
these are great reels from the great John Cohen...that's Roscoe Holcomb on banjo.
*sigh* sublime. thank you.
my heart to joy.
on loop
utterly fucking brilliant.
Ok so having been in not one but TWO relationships with mentally ill people, I think I can finally say this is what the song might be about. "Old friends fading away from you" is the first clue, shit happens, usually because they can't deal/understand your feelings. "and we looked, and we passed, through the hallway of shatterproof glass". Kinda self explanatory, psych wards, or prison visiting areas, have that as standard. "She runs though the night as if nobody's there, she screams and she cries and ignores all the stares". Again, mentally ill people. As well, "she screams and she cries" might well mean the lady in question is plagued by shit she and only she can see and experience. Doesn't have to be an outright delusion, more than likely feelings that only she feels i.e. depression. "She wants me to come but I'm never going there". Deep line, can refer to both the lady needing the man's help but he can't feel what she feels nor can he get on that level. Also, might be in the aforementioned pysch ward or prison, and is in a life the man cannot get to.
As for the name of the song, well beats me lol
dope comment. Title could be a veiled reference to said facility...…...
or maybe some place she imagined where everything is okay
I read a blog somewhere (I don’t remember where unfortunately) that talks about how gbv’s lyrics often mean nothing to you until that one moment that they do, and then it hits you like a fucking truck. This comment reminded me of that.
That was 4 years ago, did you find out what it's about yet?
perfection!
LOVE.
Nice piece
such and old and cool footage. I wonder where it comes from.
2 greatz in one video: rozcoe holcomb n robert pollard!!
@syunusk It's Roscoe Holcomb.
The Robert Pollard biography I'm reading says it's the only song he wrote on LSD
green directory pause green directory top!
My Heart to Joy also did a pretty kickass cover of this song.
I am here because of Luca Fersko...someone else? :)
Same
me too!!
I have no idea what that is fill me in
Maravilha!
Any one know where this film is coming from? (ahhaah Gold Heart Mountain top...)
SERIOUSLY! this isn't where they did Deliverance before the river got messed up?
That's how I feel with almost every GBV song...
Is this Clarence Ashley on the video?
i think more people follow uncle bob than anyone will admit. i think rock stars secretly follow him
This reminds me of Nick Drake for some reason.
Thought the same thing. Moreso the first half of the song. It's the earthy drop-tuned guitar and quiet vocals. I can't think of a Nick Drake song that sounds like the second half because I don't think he ever really raised his voice. Haven't listened in a while though so I might be forgetting something
Is that William Burroughs at 0:19?
Roscoe Holcomb
...she wants me to come but I'm never going there....
reminds me of beck
@tabenx
Nahhh. That's the briliance... there's no need.
“I like Jimmy joe and the jimjams cover of this song!!11”
Nobody cares that some hack covered this great little song.