| Wilco – I'm the Man Who Loves You Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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would you believe that I actually created a username with songmeanings tonight purely on account of this song? great eerily-light-but-full-of-depth song that is quintessential Wilco. the way I read this stanza probably comes from my own experience, "All I can be is a busy sea/Of spinning wheels and hands that feel for/Stones to throw and feet that run, but/Come back home". I picture a guy who has broken up his truest of loves, clearly isn't over her yet, and is reminiscing while secretly hoping things between them will work out if only he has one last chance to show her how much he still cares for her. the head-over-heels singer tries to keep busy when she's absent in his life, and still shows classic hopeless romantic traits (the hands that feel, instinctively almost, for the stones to throw once more at her window). I'd do this with twigs to the ex who introduced me to Wilco, ironically, nearly two years ago. He travels around, hoping perhaps to find an escape from fantasizing about a future with her, only to return to the same places they spent time together, knowing in his heart all the ways he could be right for her again, knowing what he knows now. His love is ever-welcoming, as a home in the last word of that selected stanza, and he obviously wants her to return to it, and him. |
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