Although this exact recording of the song has not yet been released even as a bootleg, this is an early version of “Quality of Armor” from Guided by Voices' Propeller album, released eight years later in 1992. Impressively, the lyrics are already very nearly the same as the final, with only slight t...
[Verse 1]
Man isn't in his final stages
Staring at the sky as the battle rages
God isn't in the dictionary
God doesn't live in the cemetery
[Chorus]
Oh, yeah, I'm going to drive my car
Oh, yeah, I'm going to go real far
Beyond the shadow of a doubt
Beyond the power of my clout
[Verse 2]
The worst offense is intelligence
The best defense is belligerence
I'm the stalemate of predicament
Governed by tissue and filament
[Chorus]
Oh, yeah, I'm going to drive my car
Oh, yeah, I'm going to go real far
Beyond the shadow of a doubt
Beyond the power of my clout
Beyond the secret bogus world
Beyond the Montezuma halls
The Quality of Armor was written by Robert Pollard.
The Quality of Armor was produced by Mitch Swann.
Coyote Call released The Quality of Armor on Sat Mar 10 1984.