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Wilco – Company In My Back Lyrics 19 years ago
the 'Old Radiant Beauty" part comes from his poem: Singing Combat.

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Wilco – Company In My Back Lyrics 19 years ago
I think the meaning has something to do with the Record Company Reprise Records during Wilco's upheaval after recording YHF. But that's just my theory

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Wilco – Company In My Back Lyrics 19 years ago
This song was written from Jeff Tweedy's Poem: Pure Bug Beauty. Published in his book of poems (and I'll not say which poems) Adult Head.

Pure Bug Beauty
Jeff Tweedy
I attack with love
folded, my wings
crawl up to you
and your afternoon
I’ve been puking

you move so slow
a steady crushing hand
over my body
a company
in my back

hide your soft skin
your sorrow in sunshine
listening to my eyes
they are full
of bloodful tunes

you learn so slow
old fleshy beauty
I curve my flight
under your bent knee
I will always die

so you can remember me

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