We Were Wealth Lyrics

Lyric discussion by TheWrongGirl 

Cover art for We Were Wealth lyrics by Wye Oak

i know nothing definitively here, but i just have a couple suggestions...

it sounds like she might be saying "FEELING the release," as opposed to "FEARING" it, but i'm not sure.

say, for instance i pay money for AN OBJECT sight unseen how is it that it speaks for me poor --- (i don't know what she's saying here... but it sounds like it ends with "never owed")

INSTEAD OF: feel the days end and we close down I HEAR: fill/feel the days at any cost i'd

and then rather than "if we run or fly," i hear "cause we were wealth and"

i know it's a far stretch... :)

I think you're right on a bunch of that, mostly because of context -- it makes the lines make more sense. Especially "we were wealth" being a line in the song.

It's pretty much impossible to get the words right from one recording; often a few live versions (even on youtube) will confirm a word or phrase without a doubt. Unfortunately there's only one muddy version of this on youtube that I've found.