Wilco

Pure Bug Beauty

instrumental

This Is New

This is new
This is the new
The new me
The new them
The new us

This is
The path
Greater love walks?
Slowly
Persist
Persistent
A persistent
Onward momentum

I care less
I only honor this
Now, now nothing else
Nothing happens
I loosen
My body
For this
Persistent

Diamond Claw

instrumental

This Is New (The Explanation)

What Good Am I

What good am I?
Long live time
For all kind
There poems
Song in my heart
Skull in my pocket
What good am I?
Time takes a stage
Drowned out
Wine, women and advertsiing
No, no, no
Currency exchange
That's easy for you to say
I dont need anything x2
I don't need ..
I need you

Here Comes Everybody

instrumental

Hummingbird (Alternate Version)

His goal in life was to be an echo
Riding alone, town after town, toll after toll
A fixed bayonet through the great southwest
To forget her

She appears
In his dreams
But in his car, and in his arms
A dream could mean anything
A cheap sunset on a television set could upset her
But he never could

Remember to remember me
Standing still in your past
Floating fast like a hummingbird

His goal in life was to be an echo
The type of sound that floats around
And then back down like a feather
But in the deep chrome canyons of the loudest Manhattans
No one could hear him
Or anything

So he slept, on a mountain
In a sleeping bag underneath the stars,
He would lie awake and count them
But the great fountain spray of the great Milky Way
Would never let him
Die alone

Remember to remember me
Standing still in your past
Floating fast like a hummingbird
Remember to remember me
Standing still in your past
Floating fast like a hummingbird
A hummingbird
A hummingbird

The High Heat

She wants to die
Like people do
Shallow clicking
Summer or sickening
In that room
High in the heat
A white-hot beehive
Well, she was doomed
She has a wind
To offer the sky
She couldn't stop sinking
She thought she wasn't thinking
She wanted to die
She wants to live
Like people do
She feels like giving
It all away
All to you

Doubt

instrumental

Barnyard Pimp

instrumental

Rottnest

instrumental

Hamami

instrumental

2004

The Wilco Book

Credits + Notes

A collaborative picture book about music. The Wilco Book features dozens of never-before-seen photographs of the band by Michael Schmelling, plus essays, reflections, drawings and photographs by members of Wilco about their music, their instruments and the varied sources from which they draw their inspiration. Also included are essays by authors Henry Miller and Rick Moody, paintings by Fred Tomaselli, visual images by Bern Porter, and a compact disc of unreleased music. The 40-minute CD included in the book contains songs and music collected during the recording sessions of A Ghost Is Born. This never-before-released material is only available with the book. (Out of Print)