Favorite Phrases

[mchchef1]

My sleeves have come unstitched

From climbing your tree

 

They hang like grapes

On vines that shine

And warm the lovers' glass

Like friendly wine

 

She says forever

To light a fuse

We could use

A handful of wheel

And a day off

And a bruised road

However, you might feel

Tonight is real

 

I'm an ocean

An abyss in motion

Slow motion

Sloooooow motion

 

I'm going away

Where you will look for me

Where I'm going you cannot come

 

No one's ever gonna take my life from me

I lay it down

A ghost is born

A ghost is born

A ghost is born

 

 

yeah I'm a fan of "Theologians" All of AGIB really

[Edie]

She's in the kitchen with bitter diamond drunks

(She's in the way)

I'm on the sofa (I'm in the way)

Hoping she leaves that punk cause

 

I'm the boy with the poetry power

I'm the boy, smells like flowers

And every time I make a rhyme

I live my life like I wasn't invited

 

And then (and earlier):

 

Candyfloss, she's a safe cracker

She kissed me first, then broke in

[theashtraysays]

Candyfloss, she's a safe cracker

She kissed me first, then broke in

I thought everyone on VC hated Candyfloss? You're gonna get mail, you know.

 

Mine :

Your pillow wept

You covered your eyes

And you finally slept

While the sun caught fire

 

You've changed

 

(if that's not a picture of a night we can all relate to, I don't know what is...)

[froggie]

oh, i forgot:

 

crawling is screw faster lash

i blow it with kisses

i rest my head on a pillowy star

and a cracked door moon

that says I haven't gone too far

[SarahC]

"Open your arms as far as they will go

Take off your dress

An embarrassing poem

Was written when I was alone

In love with you"

(this one is amazing...)

 

"Please don't cry, we're designed to die..."

 

"Take off your bandaid cos I don't believe in touch downs"

 

"I'm down on my hands and knees

Everytime the doorbell rings

I shake like a toothache

When I hear myself sing"

 

"Genuine day will come when the wind decides to run"

[Gobias Industries]

oh, i forgot:

 

crawling is screw faster lash

i blow it with kisses

i rest my head on a pillowy star

and a cracked door moon

that says I haven't gone too far

 

And crawling is screw faster lash

I blow it with kisses

I rest my head on a pillowy star

And a cracked-door moon

That says I haven't gone too far

 

my quote :

[socbret]

I thought everyone on VC hated Candyfloss? You're gonna get mail, you know.

I don't know how you could hate candyfloss

[CalebMac]

I shook down those lines

To shine up the streets

I got up off my hands and knees

To thank my lucky stars that you're not me

 

What would we be without wishful thinking

[winter party person]

our love is all of god's money

[theologians]

wow reading through all of these is awesome...i agree with just about all of them. But, i especially like this one

 

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.

[mpolak21]

All of my daydreams are disasters

 

A soft sadness had her much more than her loneliness

 

Candy left over from Halloween

A unified theory of everything

Love left over from lovers leaving

Books, they all know they're not worth reading

They're not worth reading

 

All of Poor Places...

 

Oh it's okay for you to say

What you want from me

I believe that's the only

Way for me to be, exactly

What you want me to be

 

Hide in the weeds

The orchestra

Is proving death again

[badger]

I forgot:

 

World record players on a tour of Japan,

Charlie's fixin' his van with a left arm tan.

 

and

 

I hit the second deck and I split my paycheck and my wife that I just met she's lookin' like a wreck

 

or

 

The room fills with smoke and I'm already broke and the dealer keeps on jokin' as he takes my last token

 

 

Perhaps not Jeff's most poetic lines, but they always make me sing out loud, (out of tune and preferably after a few drinks).

[LittleSavage]

It's almost gone

The night is dissolving

In a cup God lifts

To toast the lightening

[Beltmann]

Here are 10 off the top of my head:

 

 

[Sweet Papa Crimbo]

I know you've got a god-shaped hole

You're bleeding out your heart full of soul

[cmackey34]

Definitely:

 

In a cup God lifts to toast the lightning

[Guest Left Arm Tan]

All my lies are only wishes.

 

which is 100% true

 

this has been one of my very favorite wilco lines as well because, as you said, it's so true.

 

i've also really love...

 

"when dogs laugh some saying they're barking, i don't think they're mean"

 

"no love's as random, as my love, i can't stand it"

 

and of course...

 

"blister on a turnpike, let me by, i only want to wonder why when i don't die, ooo, i shot ya, yeah, i know, i only want to go where my wheels roll"

[bellflower]

"You have to learn how to die, if you want to be alive"

 

"His goal in life was to be an echo"

 

Those are good ones

[Wilco LP #7]

i wanna glide through those brown eyes dreaming

 

you are not my typewriter, but you could be my demon moving forward through the flaming doors

 

please dont cry, this world of words and meanings makes you feel outside, something you already feel thats deep inside

 

the air was crisp, like sunny late winter days, springtime yawning high in the haze

 

remember to remember me, standing still in your past, floating fast like a hummingbird

 

half of its you, half is me

 

if i ever was myself, i wasnt that night

 

i will always die so you can remember me

 

whenever we kissed, i was surprised to find so much inside

 

i'm a bomb regardless

 

back in your old neighborhood, the cigarettes taste so good

 

...just to cite a few

[Wilco Worshipper]

We fell in love in the key of C

[Randall]

crumbling ladder tears don't fall, they shine down your shoulders

 

i always wonder "how did he come up with that?" and "what exactly does it mean?"

 

love it

[london_calling]

The ashstray says,you were up all night...... So simple ,but tells a story in 8 words

[Lammycat]

when i soak so long i forget my mother

This is a big one that has always jumped out at me, as well, and has personal meaning for what I take out of it.

[jhh4321]

"Your spine starts to shine

And you shiver at your soul

A fist so clear and climbing

Punches a hole

In the sky

So you can see

For yourself

If you don't believe me

There's so much less

To this than you think"

 

These lines gives me big chills every time.

[Bubs101]

All I can be is a busy bee (could be sea but I prefer mine )

 

Keeping things clean doesn't change anything

 

pillowy star

 

and.................

 

I always bet on black.....BLACKJACK