| Wilco – Hell Is Chrome Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Also, I hope I don't sound pretentious here, but Wilco's use of silence in this song is positively Miles-esque. | |
| Wilco – Born Alone Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| You should go into the ironic t-shirt business. You'd make a fortune! | |
| Wilco – Hell Is Chrome Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Tweedy plays with his audience a bit here...the song is a ruse. The narrator is following his instinct, led by a sense of belonging into a situation he's been warned against. But his instincts tell him not to believe what he has been taught, and accept his new situation without trepidation. But will the siren song he hears instead lead him to his life's destruction? Tweedy leads it up to his audience to deduce. |
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| The Band – Tears of Rage Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Wow, such a beautiful song. All about the absurdity of life and the beauty of life. In the end, dust to dust. But in the mean time, at least we have...oh who am I kidding, we're all dead in the end. | |
| Wilco – I Might Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| i dunno about this song. "You won't set the kids on fire, but I might." sounds like an indictment of current pop bands...but I think I heard that from someone else. | |
| Wilco – Born Alone Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Heh. I guess this song doesn't mean anything in particular, but when I tried to piece the lyrics together the first few times I listened to it, what I came up with is the narrator is some kind of god who can selectively experience major events in the Universe. For example: "I have heard the war and worry of the gospel. Ferried fast across the void," the narrator is dwelling on the most unique events in the universe. Jumping from major event to major event letting it all wash over him to get a feel for both the tyrannical nature of mankind and the chaotic grander of nature. But then turns introspective: "Tonight I'd rather count the warm fuse internally..." So here the narrator choses to dwell in loneliness, inhabiting the body of a singular person contemplating his position in the universe. After he gets his fill of being introspective, he wants to connect with something outside of him. He is looking for someone to relate to: "Will you weather, join the cold, come before I die. More aware of it than me." But then realizes, being a God, he is destined to be disconnected from humanity: "I was born to die alone." |
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| Wilco – Art of Almost Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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This is about someone with a fear to step out of the mold he's created for himself and live a more fulfilling life. For instance: No, I froze I can't be so Far away from my wasteland There is an opportunity to change his situation for the better but he has a fear of being away from the familiar wasteland he's created for himself. Here is another similar line: tomorrow I'll have all the love I could ever ache And I'll leave almost with you He's telling himself that tomorrow he'll find the love that is absent in his life. But in the end he knows he'll chicken out like he always does and he'll comfort himself by telling himself that he almost succeeded. |
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