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From what I've heard so far, the new stuff has very direct, and basically less poetic lyrics than what I've come to expect from Tweedy. Nothing exactly matches "Hide your soft skin, your sorrow is sunshine

Listen to my eyes," just to name a beautiful lyric off the top of my head. Anyone agree?

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"If you like singing a song

and you want other people to sing along

Just sing what you feel

dont let anyone say its wrong"

 

I think part of the theme of the album is going to be that simple can be beautiful. :)

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I think part of the theme of the album is going to be that simple can be beautiful. :)

Agreed. Personally, I've always felt that Tweedy is at his best when he is most direct. That quote above from "Company" is an interesting reference-point because, to me, those lines work better in print than they do when set to music...and I kind of find that to be the case with a lot of his more abstract lyrics. Not knocking his writing at all, and maybe I'm just admitting to being a big dummy whose mind can't multi-task enough to extract the poetry from the music, but sometimes when the lyrics get more cryptic I swear he might as well just be singing "la la la doo be doo" because all I hear are sounds. :lol (I think my mind tends to focus more on the instruments, anyway)

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less poetic? bullshit. maybe on "What Light," "Walken" and "Is This The Thanks I Get?". take a look at the lyrics to these two songs which i recently transcribed. you would have said the same thing if you'd heard "I'm A Wheel" and "The Late Greats" before AGIB came out.

 

"Shake It Off"

 

sunlight angles on

wooden floor at dawn

ceiling fan is on

chopping up my dreams

what is left of them

take to sleep again

where i dare pretend

i'm more than i seem

 

tears get triggered

yours remind me

of the ice

melting in my glass

finally full again

so i'll listen for

your lips to break apart

into words

 

the devil nearly starts

swore my heart

somewhere there's a war

sometimes it's hard

 

the devil nearly starts

swore my heart

somewhere there's a war

sometimes it's hard

 

when i'm waking up

i'm gonna shake it off

i'm gonna shake it off

i'm gonna shake it off

i'm gonna shake it off

 

hotels hold me

thoughts horizon

so many hearts

beating in one place

like a giant beast

with many souls

no, just a body

full of holes

 

when i'm waking up

i'm gonna shake it off

i'm gonna shake it off

 

"Side With The Seeds"

 

the tired stoplight

the blacktop cracks

leaves fall through

dark green enough to be blue

 

but the mysteries we believe in

are dreamed enough to the true

some side with the leaves

some side with the seeds

 

tree-top ?

rains ?

?

the swings are slowly dying

but you and i will be undefeated

by agreeing to disagree

noone wins but the the theives

so i side with anything

 

the street lights' glow

comes and goes

but the sun comes back

as we all can plainly see

but embracing the situation

is our only chance to be free

i'll side with you

if you side with me

 

add "Impossible Germany" to the list of poetic songs too.

 

-justin

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