Wilco Album

Are you under the impression this isn't your life?
Do you dabble in depression?
Is someone twisting a knife in your back? Are you being attacked?
Oh, this is a fact that you need to know

Wilco
Wilco
Wilco love you, baby

Are times getting tough?
Are the roads you travel rough?
Have you had enough of the old? Tired of being exposed to the cold?
Stare of your stereo, put on your headphones before you explode

Wilco
Wilco
Wilco love you, baby

There's so many wars that just can't be won
Even before the battle's begun
This is an aural arms open wide
A sonic shoulder for you to cry on

Wilco
Wilco love you, baby

Is someone twisting a knife in your back?
Are you being attacked?
Oh, this is a fact that you need to know

Wilco
Wilco
Wilco
Wilco love you, baby

By the end of the bout, he was punched out
Fists capsized, muscles shouting
Deeper down
He felt the insult of a kiss

Deeper still than we can go
Further out than triremes row
Drowning slow
His memories persist

Out beyond the telescope's pry
Up above the tallest Dutch dope high
He realized
This mystery is his

Underneath the ocean floor
A part of who we are we don't explore
I adore the meaninglessness of the this
We can't express

By the end of the bout, he was punched out
Fists capsized, muscles shouting
Deeper down
He felt the comfort of a kiss

We once belonged to a bird
We cast a shadow on this world
You were a blessing and I was a curse
I did my best not to make things worse for you

That isn't true
I always knew this would be our fate
This is what happens when wings separate
This happens to all dead weight eventually

We may as well be made of stone, we can't be flown
One wing will never fly
Neither yours, nor mine
I fear we can only wave goodbye

One wing will never fly, neither yours nor mine
One wing will never ever fly, dear
Neither yours nor mine
I fear we can only wave goodbye

One wing will never ever fly, dear
Neither yours nor mine
I fear we can only wave goodbye

Bye, bye

It's in my hair, it's on my clothes
It's in the river over the road
It's shining down, my angry star
Hanging off the hood of my car

I'm not going far
I'm not going far

It's coming down, they're coming up the shoulders
What have they found, I wonder if they know?
I'm in a bull black Chevy Nova
Silhouetted by the setting sun

This can't be undone
This can't be undone

If I'm the one with blood on my sofa
Blood in the sink, blood in the trunk
High at the wheel of a bull black Nova
Then I'm sorry as the setting sun

This can't be undone
Can't be outrun

It's in my head, there's blood in the sink
I can't calm down, I can't think
I keep calling, there's blood in the trunk
I can't calm down

Pick up
Pick up

You and I, we might be strangers
However close we get sometimes, it's like we've never met
But you and I, I think we can take it
All the good with the bad, make something that no one else has

But you and I
You and I

Me and you, what can we do?
When the words we use sometimes are misconstrued
I won't guess what's coming next
I can't ever tell, you're the deepest well I've ever fallen into

Oh, I don't want to know
Oh, I don't want to know
Oh, I don't need to know
Everything about you

Oh, I don't want to know
And you don't need to know
That much about me

You and I, we might be strangers
However close we get sometimes, it's like we've never met
But you and I, I think we can take it
All the good with the bad, make something that no one else has

But you and I
You and I

Come on children, you're acting like children
Every generation thinks it's the end of the world
All you fat followers, get fit fast
Every generation thinks it's the last, thinks it's the end of the world

It's a dream down a well, it's a long, heavy hell
I don't care anymore, I don't care anymore
It's a fear we transcend if we're here at the end
I don't care anymore, I don't care anymore

You never know

Come on kids, you're acting like children
Act your age, get back to black metal and pearls
All you sword swallowers, pull yourselves together
Every generation thinks it's the worst, thinks it's the end of the world

It's a secret I can't tell, it's a wish down a well
I don't care anymore, I don't care anymore
It's a long, heavy hell, synthesizer Patell
I don't care anymore, I don't care anymore

You never know

I don't care anymore, I don't care anymore
It's a secret I can't tell, it's a wish down a well
I don't care anymore, I don't care anymore

It's a fear to transcend if we're here at the end
I don't care anymore, I don't care anymore
I don't care anymore, I don't care anymore

You never know

Wake up, we're here
It's so much worse than we feared
There's nothing left here
Our country has disappeared

With the winter trees bleeding leaf red blood
The the summer sweet dreaming, April blush
But none of that is ever going to mean as much to me again

Hold out your hand
There's so much we don't understand
So stick as close as you can
To all of your best laid plans

You've got the white clouds hanging so high above you
You've got the helicopters dangling, angling to shoot
The shots to feed the hungry weekend news crew anchormen

So every evening we can watch from above
Crush the cities like a bug
Fold ourselves into each other's guts
Turn our faces up to the sun

I won't take no
I won't let you go
All by yourself
I know you need my help

When the cold light shakes you like a chandelier
The snowflakes break through the atmosphere
And melt on the blue breath of the auctioneers and disappear

So every evening we can watch from above
Crush the cities like a bug
Fold ourselves into each other's blood
Turn our faces up to the sun

Once I thought the world was crazy
Everyone was sad and chasing
Happiness and love, and
I was the only one above it

Once I thought without a doubt
I had it all figured out
Universe with hands unseen
I was cold as gasoline

Took too long to see
I was wrong to believe in me only

Once my life was a game so unfair
It beat me down and kept me there
Unaware of my naysaying
Solitaire was all I was playing

Took too long to see
I was wrong to believe in me only

I'll go, I'll go, I'll go, I'll go for you
I'll fight, I'll fight, I'll fight, I'll fight for you
I'll kill, I'll kill, I'll kill, I'll kill for you
I will, I will, I will

I'll go, I'll go, I'll go, I'll go for you
I'll fight, I'll fight, I'll fight, I'll fight for you
I'll die, I'll die, I'll die, I'll die for you
I will, I will, I will

And if I die, I'll die, I'll die alone
On some forgotten hill, abandoned by the mill
All my blood will spring and spill
I'll thrash the air and then be still

You wake with a start from a dream and know that I am gone
You feel it in your heart, but not for very long
You'll rise each day as planned, your will as your command
And stand each Sunday, a hymnal steady in your hand

And you'll sing to yourself the rising, falling melody
That you could never lead without the choir's lead
Still alone and lost indeed
And your soul will not be free

I will go, I will go, I will go
Into war's waters, I will wade
And I will know without remorse or regret
The fairness of our trade

For you to live, I took your place
A deal was made and I was paid
And in gold, as I was told
With a place where my body could be laid

You will steer your life and die old, in bed at home
Surrounded by your peers, without suffering or fear
Grandchildren far and near, and none will shed a tear
For the love no longer here

I'll go, I'll go, I'll go, I'll go for you, I will
I'll fight, I'll fight, I'll fight, I'll fight for you, I will, I will, I will
I'll kill, I'll kill, I'll kill, I'll kill for you, I will
I'll die, I'll die, I'll die, I'll die for you, I will, I will, I will

And if I die, I'll die, I'll die alone, like Jesus
On the cross, my faith cannot be tossed
My life will not be lost
If my love comes across

I was on my way home from my high school
Stuck at the crossing, I dug in for a duel
But at the last moment, I buried the brakes
My life split in two directions, into two different fates

I got on the last flight to Amsterdam
But couldn't hit the runway, so we took off again
There's no need to worry, the captain cut in
The winds are less angry over in Berlin

You know it's true, the other shoe
It waits for you, what can you do?
Remember to show gratitude
The darkest night is nothing new

Sonny's got a problem all the mini-mart clerks know
She knows nothing of Eminem's suburban gangster flow
Oh, maybe it's random how each moment unfolds
It didn't feel like the wrong time or place until they cut off her clothes

A sunny feeling is taken away
A sunny feeling is taken away
A sunny feeling is taken away
A sunny feeling is taken away

I'm on my way home from my high school
I'm always contemplating why the kids are still cruel
Oh, the kids are still cruel

A sunny feeling is taken away
A sunny feeling is taken away
A sunny feeling is taken away
Some of the feeling gets taken away

Everything alive must die
Every building built to the sky must fall
But don't try to tell me my
Everlasting love is a lie

Everlasting everything
Oh, nothing could mean anything at all

Every wave that hits the shore
Every book that I adore
Gone like a circus, gone like a troubador
Everlasting love forever more

Everlasting everything
Oh, nothing could mean anything at all

Oh, I know this might sound sad
But everything goes, both the good and the bad
So it all adds up, and you should be glad
Everlasting love is all you had

Everlasting everything
Nothing could mean anything at all
Everlasting everything
Nothing could mean anything at all

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