We Were Wealth Lyrics

Lyric discussion by TheWrongGirl 

Cover art for We Were Wealth lyrics by Wye Oak

i've re-interpreted... who knows how many times i will do this with these songs? this is my favorite on the album, though.

though i am grown i'm living like a child now i wish, i want giving myself everything fearing the release keeping the peace

say, for instance i pay money for an object sight unseen how is it that it speaks for me --- i'll never own/or never owed indifferently (i'm fairly certain this isn't what she's saying here, but if i pretend i can almost pull it off)

feel/fill the days at any cost i'd spend you'll/your own and we shall all see (?)

'cause we were wealth and we were running/lonely i'll fly home and we will go free we will go free we will go free we will go free we will go free

not a far stretch at all!

definitely is "if we were wealth and..." after there it gets shaky...

possibly something like "if we were wealth and / we were golden / on our own and / we will go free" i'm less sure of the rest now that you've got the section onto its correct start.

if made the appropriate changes above.

i always thought she was saying "we were golden," but i started to doubt myself after reading other interpretations and trying to contextualize.

i have to say these civilian lyrics began to feel like a little project we were both working on. it's been both mind-numbing and really quite fun, though that may seem an unlikely pairing :) i think it's safe to say that it'll never be 100% complete.