Favorite Phrases

[Sara Yoko]

Okay, so these are just a small few.

 

"Just can't find the time

To write my mind

The way I want it to read "

 

" Displayers of affection and all good intentions,

Why don't you just send me the bill"

 

" She's a jar

With a heavy lid

My pop quiz kid

A sleepy kisser

A pretty war

With feelings hid"

 

"

The ashtray says

You were up all night

When you went to bed

With your darkest mind

 

Your pillow wept

You covered your eyes

And you finally slept

While the sun caught fire"

 

" Will I catch the moon

Like a bird in a cage?

It's for you I swoon

I'm always in love"

 

"I printed my name on the back of a leaf

And I watched it float away

The hope I had in a notebook full of white dry pages

Was all I tried to save"

 

" He feels lucky to have you here

In his kitchen, in your chair

Sometimes he forgets that you're even there"

 

" Voices escape singing sad sad songs

Tuned to chords strung down your cheeks

Bitter melodies turning your orbit around"

 

 

Wow, this post may be singularly one of the most personal things I've ever put on this dastardly Intar-web.

[FourStrongWinds]

All of 'You Are My Face', i had a Wilco binge last night Summerteeth>YHF>Ghost>SBS

and found the experience slightly disheartening when comparing my feeble attempts at songwriting to Tweedys

 

theres no baggage with his lyrics, not a single word out of place or a phrase that feels a little messy

[HighFives]

As your spine starts to shine

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

 

yes.

 

also,

 

take off yr dress an embarassing poem was written when I was alone, in love with you.

[sunshine bends]

"i thought it was cute for you to kiss my purple black eye even though I caught from you i still think your serious"

 

true life experience

[Sweet Papa Crimbo]

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

 

I love Candyfloss. I find in inconceiveable that it almost didn't make the cut for Summerteeth (hidden track to boot).

[Basil II]

Blue has no value, power or hue

 

or open skies, relationless

 

Carelessness is what I miss

 

and that's how I think of you

 

 

 

"Cars Can't Escape"

 

 

 

 

-Robert.

[Sir Stewart]

"Springtime comes and the leaves are back on the trees again - the snipers are harder to see, my friend."

[MattZ]

"Exactly what do you want me to be?"

[Gobias Industries]

too far apart

right from the start

and i couldn't be any closer to you now

 

OMGWTFBBQ AM lyrics?!? They may be from AM but they're just as damn good as any other.

[estewartdc3]

So hard to choose:

 

"I would like to salute

The ashes of American flags

And all the fallen leaves

Filling up shopping bags"

 

"And the gray fountain spray of the great Milky Way

Would never let him

Die alone"

 

"Tires type black

Where the blacktop cracks

Weeds spark through

Dark green enough to be blue"

 

....and these are just the ones I can think of immediately.

 

Thanks to all who've posted. I've smiled at each one and that has made my morning.

[Kiss & Ride]

"When Autumn comes you sit in your chair and you stare, at the TV square"

[Lammycat]

"Springtime comes and the leaves are back on the trees again - the snipers are harder to see, my friend."

"When Autumn comes you sit in your chair and you stare, at the TV square"

[Sir Stewart]

Plus:

[Lammycat]

Great song, overall.

True. The one(s) off the YHF demos, especially.

[Sir Stewart]

True. The one(s) off the YHF demos, especially.

Once I listened to nothing but that track on repeat for an hour, speeding in my car, alone and angry.

[a.miller]

A hole without a key

If I break my tongue

Speaking of tomorrow

How will it ever come?

 

Those lines are so beautiful and wonderfully ambiguous.

[ZenLunatic]

Sometimes I get so hungry

Think about pie all day

Just a little whip cream

Honey, I'm on my way

 

 

I experienced this, couldn't believe Tweedy knows me so deeply.

[yermom]

Once I listened to nothing but that track on repeat for an hour, speeding in my car, alone and angry.

I drive in my car, listen to Kamera and pretend I don't have any responsibilities waiting for me at home. It feels good to escape to some Wilco every once in a while.

 

I'm counted out

And no one knows how far (tell 'em I'm lost)

I've driven in the dark (tell 'em I'm lost)

With echoes in my heart (tell 'em I'm lost)

[Casino Queen]

What you once were isn't what you want to be anymore

[Wilco Worshipper]

Cheer up, honey, I hope you can

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For this week especially, 'cuz I feel like I really need it and he's talking TO ME

 

 

 

That's what the 1st song was Sarchi

[kissingthelipless]

this one has been one of my favorite lately...

 

I'll be in my bed

You can be the stone

That raises from the dead

And carries us all home

 

There's no blood on my hands

I just do as I am told

[froggie]

"honey......... please.......... wait up for me"

 

"you're so misunderstood"

[Scott Gyrrr]

The best song never gets sung

 

The best life never leaves your lungs...so go you won't ever know

[the_fliz1]

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 faaaaaaaaaaaaar.

[mrs_leroy_brown]

When Jeff sings 'some side with the leaves, some side with the seeds', it makes me want to cry my eyes out.