Jeff Tweedy

I was always right
About the morning
Okay, I'm an old shoe

Danced above the blaze
Never stopped crawling
Over the black dunes

And I'm waiting for you
Waiting forever
Are you awake now, too?

I'm always one
Without a warning
Old days re-appear

Lift away, past the gate
Desert keeps forming
Underneath The black moon

And I'm waiting for you
Waiting forever
Are you awake now, too?

I have heard the wall and
worry of the gospel
Ferry faust it crossed a void
I have married broken spoke
charging smoke wheels
Spit and swallowed opioid
I am the driver at the
wheel of the order
Marching circles at the gate
My eyes have seen the fury
So flattered by fate
Tonight I'd rather count the
warm fuse internally
Subtract the silence of myself
I would rather choose a million
mind of mystery
Reverse a riddle for my health
I'll unwind strange rinds
overpower me
Toss the chimneys in the sea
I believe I've seen the finger
Divine extremity
Please come closer to the
feather smooth lens fire
Sadness is my luxury
Will you ever join the
cult come before I die
More aware of it than me
Without the blowing stone
The kids are unabashed
Loneliness postponed
My eyes deceiving glory
I was born to die alone
Alone

Capitol city, skyline photo
Skyscrapers shine, the sun's so
Low in the sky
Secretaries at the hot dog vendors
Cabs honk at the bicycle messengers
Rolling by
I can't call with a subway token
Anyway, the phones are all broken
I wish you were here, better yet I wish I was there with you

You wouldn't like it here
You should stay right there
Breath'in that country air
You wouldn't like it here ...

Capitol towers radiate a steam vent
Scream along with the clarinets and
Arguments echo down the hall

I can't sleep, I can't wake up
Shakin' up, maybe we should break up
I wish you were here, better yet
I wish I was there with you

You wouldn't like it here
You should stay right there
Breathin' that country air
You wouldn't like it here ...

Capitol city, skyline photo
Picture postcard sign
The moon's so low in the sky
I can't smile when my heart's still broken
Far away, in love and unspoken
I wish you were here
Or I was there with you ...

I've been young
I've been old
I've been hurt
and consoled
Heart of coal
Heart of gold
So I'm told
I've been lost
I've been found
I've been taken
by the sound
My own worries
and voices in my head
I can't help it if I fall
In love with you again
I'm calling just to let you know
It dawned on me
Every night
Is a test
To the east
From the west
The sun rises
And it sets
As the sun
At its best
I forget
That I know
I regret
Letting you go
Sometimes
I can't believe
How dark it can be
But I can't help it if I fall
In love with you again
I'm calling just to let you know
It dawned on me
Dawned on me
So for
And so forth
And again
I will stop
To begin
at the end
I can't help it if I fall
In love with you again
I'm calling just to let you know
It dawned on me
I can't help it if I fall
In love with you again
I'm calling just to let you know
It dawned on me

Oh yes
I love my label and my label loves me
For she's so good and kind together we will pave our destiny
My label always loves to hear some pretty chords on its records like these ones
She's always pleased to hear some of these pretty melodies so I sing 'em some

I love my label
I love my label yeah
And my label's got high hopes in me

Play the blues

Oh I'm so proud of them up here
We're one big happy family
I guess you could say I'm the poor relation of the parent company
They always ask for lots of songs but no more than 2:50 long
So I write 'em some
They never talk behind my back and they're always playing my new tracks when I come along

I love my label
I love my label yeah
And my label's got high hopes in me
I love my label
I love my label yeah
And my label's got high hopes in me

Was I wrong? Off all night long?
So high, as the stinking sun
I came alive, then I felt, Oh Uh Oh

Some guys have everything I know
It’s alright
I’ve done a lot of crawling around outside
(and I heard) It’s alright

Your sno-cone, and it’s piss and blood
It’s in the cards (oh, oh) 'Get Well Soon - EVERYBODY!'
Do all lies have a taste?
Let it go, I don’t know oh...
A cow’s neck, bad shave, in the low blow slo-mo

It’s alright
You won’t set the kids on fire
Oh but I might
OH

You come on, sentimental
If the solar car’s coming, I’m home
The Magna Carta’s on a Slim Jim blood, Brutha!
The sunk soul with the coal clean toe, is the mutha!

Yea. That’s right
When you gonna find out
I’m all inside
You still might

It’s all right
It’s all right

It’s alright
You won’t set the kids on fire
Oh but I might
OH

It’s all right
It’s all right

Hate will keep us together
Love will tear us apart
What has joined us in the dark

Oh I was warned
I would drive you away
I felt the same

Then I told you
And you agreed
Some days I despise
Everyone I see
We're all swine
But you're all mine

What will keep us together?
Will tear us apart
Maybe making up your mind
Breaks your heart

Hate will save the dolphins
I wish there was a way
I could change it so nothing
would ever change or stay the same

All I can do is sing it for you
Whole lives go by
Then we die
You're all swine
We're swine

Love will keep us together
Love will tear us apart
I don't care what the song says
It's not my heart

Anyway
The point is things can always be worse
When youdon't have a chorus
It's verse
After verse
After verse

Then I told you
In my arms
I hate you less
Than the rest
We're all swine
But you're all mine

This is how I tell it
Oh, but it's long
One Sunday morning
Oh, one son is gone

I can see where they're dawning
Over the sea
My father said what I had become
No-one should be

Outside I look lived in
Like the bones in a shrine
How am I forgiven?
Oh, I'll give it time

This, I learned without warning
Holding my brow
In time he thought I would kill him
Oh, but I didn't know how

I said it's your god I don't believe in
No, your Bible can't be true
Knocked down by the long life
He cried, 'I fear what waits for you'

I can hear those bells
Spoken and gone
I feel relief, I feel well
Now he knows he was wrong

I am cold for my father
Frozen underground
Jesus, I wouldn't bother
He belongs to me now

Something sad keeps moving
So I wandered around
I fell in love with the burden
Holding me down

Bless my mind, I miss
Being told how to live
What I learned without knowing
How much more that I owe that I can give

This is how I tell it
Oh, but it's long
One Sunday morning
One son is gone

I will throw myself underneath
the wheels of any train of thought
running off the rails I'll sail
you through the rogue waves
of your brain
If I could bring a light to
shine upon the dark and disobeying
night so young but I still say
we're too old for cliches
Oh I can only dream of the
dreams we'd share
if you were so inclined
I would love to be the one to
open up your mind
I could base my whole existence
upon the cherry strands
of your gold hair
I would ask almost insist upon
treating you kind and fair
Oh I can only dream of the
dreams we'd have if our hearts
would be entwined
If you would let me be the one
to open up your mind
I'd still be myself beneath the
banks all broken beside the stream
ready to return your thoughts
unlearned so it goes so it seems
Oh I can only dream of the
dreams we'd share
if you weren't so defined
I would love to be the one to
open up your mind
If you would let me be the one
to open up your mind

Solar rising red lung
Glisten under the sun
I wonder when it'll part
From the snow
The melody's a mistake
Embrace at the wake
How long does it take
For us to know
One wiff that's been blown
There's something unknown
Buried under the mound
Of snow
Found a fix for the fits
Come listen to this
As intimate as a kiss
Over a phone
And it goes
Found a fix for the fits
Come listen to this
It's buried under the hiss
And it glows
Like a powerful smile
Car radio dial
As intimate as a kiss
Over a phone
And it goes

How can you tell
You're under a spell
You're compromised
You're miles away
Slow
How can you know
When you're aiming low
There's nothing in your heart
Don't feel it in your soul
No standing O O O
Maybe you've noticed
I'm ashamed
Of anything that I've done
Maybe you've noticed that
I'm not the same
As almost anyone
Why can't you see
You look funny to me
You trip and fall
I catch it all O
How can you know
When you're aiming low
You're curling up
You're crawling now
No standing O O O
Maybe you're saying no this time
Dance right around my bones
It's ok I'll be fine
I won't follow you home
Instead I turn my mood on a dime
I'm finally off my back
I come from a long long line
I mope and I cry and attack
OW OW
How can you tell
You're under my spell
Compromised
Miles away
No standing O O O
Maybe you've noticed
I'm not afraid
Of everything that I've done
Maybe you've noticed
I'm not the same
As almost anyone
Instead turn my mood on a dime
I'm finally off of my back
I come from a long long line
I mope and I cry and attack
How can you tell
How can you tell

Allo Sun
Sometimes I don't
Know how to love
Anything myself
It's hard
To become
Hold on to it all
But kill my memories
with a cheap
Disease
To the sails
Fail
To the bird
and the whale
Remove my misery
It's all or nothing
I see
I don't wanna lose this fight
I don't wanna end this fight
Goodbye
Allo
The Sun
Someday I know
I'll learn
How to love
Anymore is enough
I don't want to lose this fight
I don't want end this fight
Goodbye

My cold Marigolds attack
My back, a bed of roses
I'm gonna bring my back
With ...

And I know that I won't be
The easiest to set free
And I know that I won't been the last
Cold captain tied to the mast

I recall on the telephone
I recall when you get mad
I still love you to death
I won't ever forget how

And I know that I won't be
The easiest to set free
And I know that I won't been the last
Cold captain tied to the mast

I'm on the other side
I'm satisfied
Oh, I'm a spirit dove
I'm looking for your love

I'm simple as a matter of fact
Punch in the nose, dont over-react
But I'll still love you to death
And I wont ever forget how

And I know that I won't be
The easiest to set free
And I know that I won't been the last
Cold captain tied to the mast

And I know that I won't be the one
To ... when it's wrong
But I hope when I know it's passed
And I hope I'll know when to show you my

Whole love (x8)

Ever forget how

You and I, we might be strangers
However close we get sometimes
It's like we 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

Well, I won't guess, what's coming next
I can't ever tell you
The deepest well I've ever fallen into

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

Oh, I don't wanna 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 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
You and I, you and I
You and I, you and I
You and I, you and I

Take me, take me
Out into the night
Show me, show me
Wonders and delights
Faces 'round a fire
Lights across the sky
The witching hour
They're calling me now
I know who you are
Hold me, hold me
I am like a child
Waiting, waiting
Motionless and wired
For the night to pass
Whispers in the dark
The witching hour
They're calling me now
I know who you are
Who you are
And those I love
Will carry me home
Will carry me home
And those I love
Will carry me home
Will carry me home
And those I love
Will carry me home
Will carry me home
And those I love
Will carry me home
Will carry me home

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
Not going far, not going far

It's coming down, they're coming up the shoulders
What have they found? I wonder if they'd 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 am the one, blood on the sofa
Blood in the sink, blood in the trunk
High at the wheel of a bull black Nova
And I'm sorry as a setting sun
This can't be undone, can't be outrun

It's in my hair, 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, I freak out, black out

Wake up we're here
It's so much worse than we feared
There's nothing left here
The country has disappeared
If the winter trees bleeding, leave red blood
The summer sweet dreaming, April blush
But none of that is ever gonna mean as much to me again.

Hold out your hand,
There's so much you don't understand
So stick as close as you can,
All of the 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 anchorman.

So every evening we can watch from above,
Crushed cities like a bug
Fold ourselves into each others guts,
And turn our faces up to the sun.

I won't take no
I won't let you go
All by yourself
Oh no you'll need my help
When the cold night shakes you like a chandelier
The snowflakes break through the atmosphere,
And melt on the blue breath of the auctioneers and disappear.

Every evening we can watch from above,
Crushed cities like a bug
Fold ourselves into each others blood,
And turn our faces up to the sun.

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 telescopes prowl
Up above the towers touched up pile
He realized, this mystery is his

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

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

Everything alive must die
Every building built to the sky, will fall
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 troubadour
Everlasting love forever more

Everlasting, everything
Oh, nothing could mean anything at all

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

Everlasting, everything
Oh, nothing could mean anything at all
Everlasting, everything
Oh, nothing could mean anything at all

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 crash the air and be still

You'll wait with the star from a dream
And know that I am gone
You'll feel it in your heart
But not for very long

You'll rise each day as planned
Your will is 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 read
Without the choirs' lead
Still alone and lost in deep
And your soul will not be free

I will go, I will go, I will go
And in wars waters I will wade
And I will know if I 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 the goal as I was told
Was a place where my body could be laid

And we will steal your life
And I own in better homes 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 a cross
My faith cannot by tossed
And my life will not be lost
If my love comes across

We belonged to a bird
Who cast his shadow on this world
You were a blessing and I was a curse
I did my best not to make things worse, for you
It isn't true

I always knew this would be our fate
This is what happens when we separate
This happens all dead weight, eventually

We may as well be made of stone

We can't be formed

One wing will never ever 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
Goodbye
Goodbye
Bye, bye
Bye, bye

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 think
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 naysayer
Solitaire was all I was playing

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

I was on my way home from 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 separate fates
I got on the last flight to Amsterdam
But couldn't hit the runway so we took off again
Oh, 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 is taken away

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
Oh oh oh oh
Wilco Wilco
Wilco will 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 at your stereo
Put on your headphones
Before you explode
Oh oh oh oh
Wilco Wilco
Wilco will love you baby

There's so many wars that
just can't be won
Oh oh oh
Even before the battle's begun
Oh oh oh oh
This isn't all of
our arms open wide
A sonic shoulder for you to cry
Ah ah ah oh
Wilco
Wilco will 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
Oh oh oh oh
Wilco Wilco Wilco
Wilco will love you baby

You and I, we might be strangers
However close we get sometimes
It's like we 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

Well, I won't guess, what's coming next
I can't ever tell you
The deepest well I've ever fallen into

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

Oh, I don't wanna 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 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
You and I, you and I
You and I, you and I
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

Yes, dream down a well
There's a lone heavy hell
I don't care anymore
I don't care anymore

It's a feeling we transcend
That 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
Put back the black metals and pearls

Oh, 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
There's a wish down a well
I don't care anymore
I don't care anymore

It's a long heavy hell
Super size it by ten
I don't care anymore
I don't care anymore

You never know
I will never know

I don't care anymore
I don't care anymore

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

It's a dear to transcend
And 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
Oh, you never know

Maybe the sun will shine today
The clouds will blow away
Maybe I won't feel so afraid
I will try to understand either way

Maybe you still love me, maybe you don't
Either you will or you won't
Maybe you just need some time alone
I will try to understand
Everything has its plan
Either way I'm going to stay right for you

Maybe the sun will shine today
The clouds will roll away
Maybe I won't be so afraid
I will understand
Everything has its plan either way

I try to stay busy
I do the dishes, I mow the lawn
I try to keep myself occupied
Even though I know you're not coming home

I try to keep the house nice and neat
I make my bed I change the sheets
I even learned how to use the washing machine
But keeping things clean doesn't change anything

What am I gonna do when I run out of shirts to fold?
What am I gonna do when I run out of lawn to mow?
What am I gonna do if you never come home?
Tell me, what am I gonna do?

I hate it
I hate it here
When you're gone

I caught myself thinking
I caught myself thinking once again
Have to try to keep my mind out of this
Try not to pretend

I'll check the phone
I'll check the mail
I'll check the phone again and I call your mom
She says you're not there and I should take care

I hate it here
When you're gone
I hate it
I hate it here
When you're gone

I try to stay busy
I take out the trash, I sweep the floor
Try to keep myself occupied
Cause I know you don't live here anymore

Impossible Germany
Unlikely Japan
Wherever you go
Wherever you land

I'll say what this means to me
I'll do what I can
Impossible Germany
Unlikely Japan

Fundamental problem
All need to face
This is important
But I know you're not listening
No I know you're not listening

This was still new to me
I wouldn't understand
Impossible Germany
Unlikely Japan
This is what love is for
To be out of place
Gorgeous and alone
Face to face

With no larger problems
That need to be erased
Nothing more important
Than to know someone's listening
Now I know you'll be listening

That's when I knew you
You might be lonely too
That's what I wish for
Somebody just like you
To tell me what to do
Honestly
And leave me like you found me

Can you believe it?
I'm somebody just like you
Content with being blue
Honestly
And leave me like you found me

I sit on the couch alone
Where you sit when I'm not home
And I feel so close
To you

And down the city streets
People are climbing the trees
They're finally up off their knees
Honestly
You leave me like you found me
Can you leave me like you found me?

On and on and on
We'll stay together, yeah
On and on and on
We'll be together, yeah

You and I will try
To stay together, yeah
On and on and on
We'll be together, yeah

Please don't cry
We're designed to die
Don't deny
What's inside

On and on and on
We'll stay together, yeah
On and on and on
On and on and on

One day we'll disappear
Together in a dream
However short or long
Our lives are going to be

I will live in you
Or you will live in me
Until we disappear
Together in a dream

Please don't cry
We're designed to die
You can't deny
Even the gentlest tide

On and on and on
We'll be together, yeah
On and on and on
On and on and on
We're going to try

Please don't cry
This world of words and meanings
Makes you feel outside
Something that you feel already
Deep inside
You've denied
Go ahead and cry

On and on and on
We'll stay together, yeah
On and on and on
On and on and on

You and I
We'll stay together, yeah
You and I will try
To make it better, yeah

I should warn you when I'm not well
I can tell
Oh, there's nothing I can do
To make this easier for you
You're gonna need to be patient with me

I'm this apple, this happening stone
When I'm alone
Oh, but my blessings get so blurred
At the sound of your words
I'm gonna need you to be patient with me

How can I warn you when my tongue turns to dust like we've discussed?
It doesn't mean that I don't care
It means I'm partially there
You're gonna need to be patient with me

Sunlight angles on
A wooden floor at dawn
A ceiling fan is on
Chopping up my dreams
What is left of them
I take to sleep again
Where I dare pretend
I'm more than I seem

Tears get triggered
Yours remind me
Of the ice melting in my glass
Finally full again
So I listen for
Your lips to break apart
Into words

It definitely starts
To spoil my heart
Somewhere there's a war
But sometimes there is art

It definitely starts
To spoil my heart
Somewhere there's a war
But sometimes there is art

When I'm awake enough
I'm gonna shake it off
I'm gonna shake it off
I've gotta shake it off

I'll shake it off
Shake it off
Shake it off
Shake it off

Hotels hold me
Thoughts are rising
So many hearts
Beating in one place
Like a giant
Beast with many souls
Now just a body
Full of holes

When I'm awake enough
I'm gonna shake it off
I'm gonna shake it off
I've gotta shake it off

When I'm awake enough
I'm gonna shake it off
I'm gonna shake it off
I've gotta shake it off

I'm gonna shake it off
Shake it off
Shake it off
Shake it off
Shake it off

Tires type black
Where the blacktop cracks
Weeds spark through
Dark green enough to be blue
When the mysteries we believe in
Aren't dreamed enough to be true
Some side with the leaves
Some side with the seeds

The treetops nod
The rain applauds
The park grows dark
And the swings all slowly die
But you and I will be undefeated
By agreeing to disagree
No one wins but the thieves
So why side with anything?

The streetlights glow
Comes and goes
When the sun comes back
As we all can plainly see
Embracing the situation
Is our only chance to be free
Oh, I'll side with you
If you side with me

Oh the band marched on in formation
The brass was phasing tunes I couldn't place
Windows open and raining in a room yellow, blue, gold and gray

The drunks were ricocheting
The old buildings downtown empty so long ago
Windows broken and dreaming
So happy to leave what was a home

With the sky blue sky, this ride in time wouldn't seem so bad to me now
Oh, I didn't die; I should be satisfied I survived
It's good enough for now

With the sky blue sky, this ride in time wouldn't seem so bad to me now
Oh, if I didn't die, I should be satisfied I survived
It's good enough for now