| Wilco – I'm the Man Who Loves You Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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Probably my favorite Wilco song! I've always understood that this is a song about a shy guy that's struggling to tell his feelings to a girl he likes, so he's decided to write her a letter but he's not sure what to write or if he's going to be able to capture his feelings in writing. So he's meandering about, trying to come up with something to write but coming up short, and trying to express his feelings personally but falling flat (a busy sea of spinning wheels, looking for stones to throw, feet that run but get nowhere) and it all makes no difference because the girl is totally oblivious to his feelings, probably because the guy is too shy to tell her directly. And given this inability to articulate his feelings, he wishes that if he could somehow summon the courage to hold her hand she'd automatically understand how he feels and they'd be happily ever after. |
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| Wilco – Capitol City Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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I've always understood that this song is about a person (let's say a guy) that moved to the big "Capitol city" of the title, leaving a girl back in town to allegedly maintain a long-distance relationship. But now that it's been a while and he's had a taste of big city life, the skyscrapers and everything, he wants to break up the relationship while pretending that he doesn't. Lines like "I can't call with a subway token, anyway the phones are all broken" are reminiscent of someone making up excuses, like the girl calls him after a few months and the guy is all "You know, I tried to call you but all I have are these subway tokens.. And you know, even if I did have some change, all the phones are broken so it's not like I could've called you anyway..." and lines like "I wish you were here, better yet I wish I was there with you" are followed right away by the corollary that the girl wouldn't like it in Capitol City so she definitely should stay back in town and NOT go to the city. The final giveaway for me is when he says "I can't sleep, I can't wake up, I'm shaken up, maybe we should break up" which is that classic lie/excuse of "Oh, I'm having such a terrible time missing you, we should break up so that there is no more suffering" which is some grade A+ BS. And the irony, then, comes in the last verse, when the guy finally does break up with the girl, and then is hit with the realization that he does miss her, and he can't seem to enjoy that great skyline he enjoyed at the beginning because he's now alone in the city and heartbroken. Awesome song! |
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