| The Replacements – I Will Dare Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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That's the way I've always heard it, and I just listened again to be sure. I think we're right. It's bacon, not fingernail. Fingernail doesn't even scan. |
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| Pavement – Jackals, False Grails: The Lonesome Era Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| I always sang, "I've got one open eye to you," knowing that it wasn't right. Never bothered to look up the correct lyric til now. Only took me 18 years. | |
| Wilco – Company In My Back Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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It's impossible to say whether this has anything to do with anything, but I always think about Tracy Lett's 2001 play "Bug" when I hear this song (it was later made into a movie with Ashley Judd and Michael Shannon). "Bug" is essentially a love story of extreme co-dependence in which Peter & Agnes fall in love and grow psychotic at the same time, eventually believing that their bodies host millions of microscopic bugs, implanted by the military. Among the meanings of the word "company" is "a military unit of soldiers." An additional device in the play is the wall-mounted air conditioner (not a radiator, but analogous to one) that turns on and off throughout the story, sparking paranoid episodes in Peter. In that context, some of the lines in "Company In My Back" take on some very interesting meanings. I wouldn't assume that Tweedy's intention was to "adapt" the play into song form, but especially considering that Tracy Letts is based in Chicago and "Bug" premiered there in 2001, three years before "A Ghost Is Born" came out, it's tempting to think the play at least inspired some of the images and ideas in the song. |
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