Wilco

Oct.25.2025

Richmond, VA - Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden

KC Rain

I was born a little sad
I never knew what I had
Mom and dad let it slide
No wonder
I'm never satisfied

I swayed and I swooned
I howled at the moon
Tied myself to the ties
No wonder I'm never satisfied

High in the morning
High in the afternoon
High in evening
When I'm sleeping
I'm with you

Like an old welcome mat
I’m filthy and I’m flat
Now ain’t that the truth
No wonder
I’m so confused

I only care about the cat
Some of this, a little of that
Fat chance I’ll sing the blues
No wonder
I’m so confused

I’m high in the morning
High in the afternoon
High in the evening
When I’m sleeping
I’m with you

written by Jeff Tweedy

Betrayed

Betrayed
Betrayed

Deeper in the mirror
Under a dark marquee
Dreaming I’m awake
Wishing I was still asleep

Betrayed
Betrayed

I broke my finger
Playing middle C
I keep trying to get you
Just to notice me

Betrayed
Betrayed

Sleepier and sleepier
Eyeing the ice in my Chablis
Are you far away
Or are you close enough to be

Betrayed Betrayed Eating with my family Watching KMOX TV Wasn't I guaranteed By now, there’d be killer bees? Betrayed
Betrayed

Betrayed
Betrayed

written by Jeff Tweedy

One Tiny Flower

The grass is growing
All over town
From the cracks in the sidewalks
Where the shops shut down

One tiny flower I’m jumping over
One tiny flower I’m jumping over
One tiny flower I’m jumping over
One tiny flower I’m jumping over

A wheel rolling to a stop
Blocking out the sun
From where I lay
I know I’m the only one

One tiny flower I’m jumping over
One tiny flower I’m jumping over
One tiny flower I’m jumping over
One tiny flower I’m jumping over

The grass is growing
All over town
From the cracks in the sidewalk
Where all the shops shut down

One tiny flower I’m jumping over
One tiny flower I’m jumping over
One tiny flower I’m jumping over
One tiny flower I’m jumping over

One tiny flower
One tiny flower
One tiny flower (I’m jumping over)
One tiny flower (I’m jumping over)

Skeleton
Under my skin
Blowing in
A low gentle wind

One tiny flower I’m jumping over
One tiny flower I’m jumping over
One tiny flower I’m jumping over
One tiny flower I’m jumping over
One tiny flower I’m jumping over
One tiny flower I’m jumping over
One tiny flower I’m jumping over
One tiny flower I’m jumping over

written by Jeff Tweedy

Caught Up In The Past

Ace Hotel
Los Angeles
Rooftop party sounds
Drifting down into my bed
I hear people in love
With a love that just can’t last
No one stands a chance
Getting caught up in the past

I get so far behind
I forget I’m following
That’s the kind of sad
I wallow in

I’m the last in line
And the line’s moving fast
No one stands a chance
Getting caught up in the past

There’s no crown on my head
Golden light instead
In the corner of my eye
You’re still alive

Pull down the gate
Turn out the lights
I’m a rising sun
That only rolls in at night

There’s a fading flag
I keep flying half-mast
But no one stands a chance
Getting caught up in the past

There’s no crown on my head
Golden light instead
In the corner of my eye
You’re still alive

Ace Hotel
Los Angeles
Rooftop party sounds
Drifting down into my bed
I hear people in love
With a love that just can’t last
No one stands a chance
Getting caught up in the past

Oh it’s a race against time
But you’re never gonna be that fast
’Cause no one stands a chance
Getting caught up in the past
No one stands a chance
Getting caught up in the past

written by Jeff Tweedy

Sign of Life

I hover
Above
BUY IT NOW

Time is not enough
Time will tell
It’s not enough
But I wish you well
And I still love you

I tried
And I said please
I fell
To my knees

I am death
I am night
I’m everything you fear
Is not quite right
And you still love me
Right?

You’re too kind
I was wrong
There is no sign of life
Where I’m from

I grow out of my old clothes
Without anyone noticing
I waited until I was 17
To get born

But I still love you

written by Jeff Tweedy

Forever Never Ends

On the side of the road
In a tuxedo
Three below zero
In a red cummerbund

Highway 13
Not a king not a queen
I didn’t wanna come
To your stupid prom

A hissing road flare
Baby’s breath in her hair
In the middle of nowhere
In the middle of a nightmare

I had to call my dad
I knew he’d be mad
I’d never seen him not mad
Vomit in the frozen grass

Peppermint Schnapps
Well, here come the cops
They don’t even stop
Oh, there they go

Forever never ends
I’m always back there again and again and again
Forever never ends
I’m always back there again and again and again
Forever never ends
I’m always back there again and again and again
Forever never ends
I’m always back there again and again

On the side of the road
In a tuxedo
In the middle of nowhere
In the middle of a nightmare

written by Jeff Tweedy

This is How It Ends

Night time
Up in the air
At the fair
Where you wanted to go
On the old slow
Ferris wheel
Stopped at the top
Where nothing looks real

The stars
Started to spin
When you looked at me
You said
“We can still be friends
Close your eyes
Count to ten
This is how it ends”

Headlights
In her eyes
Butterfly tattoo
Too-tight denim dress
Just a mess
It’s for the best

When the stars start again
Is this really happening?
“We were never friends
Close your eyes
Count to ten
This is how it ends”

“Close your eyes
Count to ten
This is how it ends”

written by Jeff Tweedy

Low Key

I want to let it be known
Ever since I was young
I’ve always been a refugee
Of the very high strung
I’ve always been low key
Let’s let the record show
No I won’t jump for joy
I don’t
If I get excited
Nobody knows
But I’m going love you the same
I’ll always be your fool
If it looks like I don’t care
I’m just playing it cool
No I won’t jump for joy
I don’t
If I get excited
No no one will know
I’ve always been low key
You know me
I’ve always been low key
You know me
No I won’t jump for joy
I don’t
If I get excited
Nobody knows
I’m gonna love you the same
I’ll always be your fool
When it looks like I don’t care
I’m just playing it cool
No I won’t jump for joy
I don’t
When I get excited
Nobody knows

 

Evergreen

If I get back from wherever I travel
I'll tell you what I've seen
The good and the bad
The hearts and the hassle
In the cities under siege
I'll tell you all about where I have been
And I won't ever leave again
Now you might think it's a lie
When I say I'm going to write
But if I break my pen filling you in
Wouldn't that change your mind
Evergreen
Evergreen
Have you even seen anything?
Evergreen
Whenever I get back from
Wherever I go
I'll look for you in the shade
A marker in the grass
I'll tell you at last
You're not the reason I went away
Sometimes I wish you were the one
Who had left and I had stayed
Evergreen
Evergreen
Have you even seen anything?
Evergreen
Evergreen
Evergreen
Have you even seen anything?
Evergreen

Don't Forget

Don’t forget

Don’t forget you’ve got a key

Yeah a cosmic key

Oh I love you so much

Don’t forget

We’re all blowing in

The interstellar wind

I’m your little galaxy

Don’t forget

Don’t forget sometimes

We all

We all think about dying

Don’t let it kill you

Don’t forget

I won’t forget the long drive

We arrived in time to say goodbye

And the way my roses shook

I won’t overlook

The willows bending by the graves

The very next day in the shade

Sweating in a new suit

I don’t regret

I don’t regret sometimes

We all

We all think about dying

Don’t let it kill you

Don’t forget

Don’t forget to brush your teeth

Or you’ll have a funny smile

You don’t have to smile at me

Don’t forget

Don’t forget sometimes

We all

We all think about dying

Don’t let it kill you

Don’t forget

Don’t forget sometimes

We all

We all think about dying

Oh

Mirror

You are a mirror and the face
You are an object and the space
Your mind goes blind and you are erased
You will be the person taking your place

You are a cure and the pain
You are the desert and the rain
Your mind goes blind and you are erased
You will be the person taking your place

Light on an autumn day
Leaves falling
Tears falling on your grave

You are a mirror and a face
You and I are the same
Your mind goes blind
We are erased
You will be the person digging your grave

High on a summer’s day
Clouds drifting away
Turning grey

written by Jeff Tweedy

Stray Cats In Spain

Oh, what a beautiful day
Following
The mosaic
At an angle
From where we stayed
The Stray Cats
Are playing in Spain

Oh, what a beautiful scene
All the tiger prints set free
I believe
They believe
It’s not what you think
Unless
It’s hot pink

Oh, what a beautiful day
Following
The smell of pomade
At an angle
From today
The Stray Cats
Are playing in Spain
Stray Cats in 2019
Rockin’ in the street

written by Jeff Tweedy

Gwendolyn

I don’t think I can take another day

Oh I don’t know how I could ever say

I’m OK being so far away

Oh I don’t think that I can take another day

When Gwendolyn, when she starts to speak

To a county police with a plastic cup between her teeth

The sun beating down like a big trombone

That’s right when I start missing home

She holds my hand between her knees

It’s like a dream, I never know what it means

I only know I’m feeling alone

That’s right when I start missing home

Honestly Gwen I’m not ashamed to say

Between you and me I’m relieved they put you away

Sun coming up like a piece of toast

That’s right when I started heading home

That’s right when I started heading home

Well that’s right when I started heading home

Out In The Dark

Out in the dark
Out in the dark
Out in the dark
Under the money tree
There is no spark
Beyond belief
And there is no point
Definitively
Where do we stop?
Where do we start?
Out in the dark

There are no stars
You were a flower to me
No satellites
It’s an empty street

No houses no cars
How did it go?
How did it go?
Yellow rose
How did it go?
Out in the dark

Out in the dark
Under the money tree
There is no spark
Beyond belief
And there is no point
Definitively
Where do we stop?
Where do we start?
Out in the dark

No houses no cars
How did it go?
How did it go?
Yellow rose
How did it go?
Out in the dark

Out in the dark
Out in the dark
Out in the dark
Out in the dark

written by Jeff Tweedy

Ain't It A Shame

My skin is smooth
My hair is blonde
And I am tan
On a blanket
With my friends
In the sand

Ain’t it a shame
When you wanna die
On a beach in the sun
Not a cloud in the sky
And that’s just not how dying’s done
Ain’t it a shame
When you’re young

I am welcome
I am loved
And I am free
But I have reached for something
I can’t keep

Ain’t it a shame
When you wanna die
On a beach in the sun
Not a cloud in the sky
And that’s just not how dying’s done
Ain’t it a shame
When you’re young

Ain’t it a shame
When you wanna die
On a beach in the sun
Not a cloud in the sky
And that’s just not how dying’s done
It’s not how dyin’s done
(Ain’t it a shame)
Ain’t it a shame
When you’re young

written by Jeff Tweedy

Flowering

Hold me stranger
Don’t deceive
Angel master
Can’t retrieve
Northern knots
Hung high in the trees
Spilling oceans
Existing to believe
Flowering
I told you danger
Carbon crown
March through the salt slush
Howling at the ground
Whistle my answer
Dance a blank face
Torment my sugar
And leap at any trace of
Flowering
Hold me stranger
Don’t deceive
Angel master
Can’t retrieve
Northern knots
Hung high in the trees
Spilling oceans
Existing to believe
Flowering

 

New Orleans

I’d trade all four limbs
For a parade in New Orleans

I’d hold her in a gold chair
On my shoulders like a queen

I’d sway in the four winds
Digging a grave we’d all get in

I’d trade all four limbs
For a parade in New Orleans

I’d hold her in a gold chair
On my shoulders like a queen

I’m afraid of the snake skin
And the suede boots walking in

written by Jeff Tweedy

Diamond Light Pt. 1

Why don’t we pick one script
and read it
Where the milk has dried
on the throne
Open wide
Sing gracefully beside
Rolling rivers of diamond light
Dash and heave
Each ache to the sky
Why don’t we choose one to
believe in
Where shadows die
Also alone
Coincide
Colliding points of view
Perfect mountains of diamond light
Dash and heave
Each ache to the sky
Are you scared
Are you frightened
Terrified of being alone
Are you scared
Are you frightened
Terrified of being alone

 

Feel Free

Feel free
Get on the floor and dream
Cutting pictures out of a magazine
Feel free

Feel free
Plant yourself like a seed
And take your time being buried
Feel free

Feel free
Carry a torch in the street
Say you’re full when we know you’re empty
Feel free

Feel free
To fall in love with the people you know
And fall harder for the people you don’t
Feel free

Feel free
Keep it all pristine
Clean, in its original packaging
Feel free

Feel free
Taking it slow and easy
Even though your heart is racing
Feel free

Feel free
Swim alone in the open sea
Bounce around holding a baby
Feel free

Feel free
Hail Satan, doesn’t matter to me
Or you can be the devil every Halloween
Feel free

Feel free
Lay it down, like a wreath
And leap over what’s underneath
Feel free

Feel free
To never listen and always speak
To never learn and try to teach
Feel free

Feel free
Kick a ball at a tree
Trying to retrieve your frisbee
Feel free

Feel free
Let It Bleed or Let It Be
John or Paul, Mick or Keith
Feel free

Feel free
Think of your name on a marquee
Aim for something you can’t see
Feel free

Feel free
Spin around and get dizzy
Do I know him? Who is he?
Feel free

Feel free
Get yourself born in the USA
Love with a love they can’t take away
Feel free

Feel free
Shave your head in the sink
Be brave, don’t think
Feel free

Feel free
Put your love above the part you play
Keep your love away from what you get paid
Feel free

Feel free
Make a record with your friends
Sing a song that never ends
Feel free

written by Jeff Tweedy

Lou Reed Was My Babysitter

I wanna sweat next to you
Sweat next to you
With a sticky carpet sucking on my shoes
’Cause rock ‘n’ roll ain’t never gonna lose
Nah-ah

I want you to dance into me
Spill my drink
I wanna feel the kick kickin’ in my teeth
My bleeding heart bleeding to the beat
Uh

Look out

I want you to blow smoke in my eyes
Smoke in my eyes
I wanna shake shake shake shake shake until my shoes untie
’Cause rock ‘n’ roll ain’t ever gonna die
Not as long as you and I are alive
’Cause rock ‘n’ roll is dead
But the dead don’t die

The dead don’t die
The dead don’t die
The dead don’t die
The dead don’t die
Whoo!

The dead don’t die
The dead don’t die
The dead don’t die
The dead don’t die
Raooh!

Look out

I wanna feel everything
I wanna feel everything
I wanna listen to the idiot sing
Until I can’t feel anything
’Cause rock ‘n’ roll is dead
But the dead don’t die

The dead don’t die
The dead don’t die
The dead don’t die
The dead don’t die
Whooo!

The dead don’t die
The dead don’t die
The dead don’t die
The dead don’t die
Raaaaoow!

Look out

The dead don’t die x16

written by Jeff Tweedy

World Away

I only want to feel
this morning
Catch the avenue
I intend to steal
this moment
As we’re moving through
Make my rendezvous
As if it’s all I do
I’m about to feel it lift
sorrow floats away
Over miles of old world
Darling
Honey I can’t complain
Only a world away
Only a world away
I’m about to freeze the sun
So let me fall away
How it comes to be so really
Nothings left to say
Only a world away
Only a world away
Out of bounds of maps crawl
Over the mounds of bones
Is how I came to call you lonesome
Over the telephone
Over the telephone
Only a world away
I only want to feel
this morning
Catch the avenue
I intend to steal
this moment
As we’re moving through
Make my rendezvous
As if it’s all I do
I’m about to feel it lift
sorrow floats away
Over miles of old world
Darling
Honey I can’t complain
Love me a world away
Only a world away
I’m about to freeze the sun
So let me please explain
How it comes to be so really
Nothings left to say
Only a world away
Only a world away
Out of bounds of maps crawl
Over the mounds of bones
Is how I came to call you lonesome
Over the telephone
Over the microphone
It’s only a world away

Half-Asleep

Half asleep

All your dreams

Come alive

You’re all I need

Come to me

Close your eyes

There’s no other

There’s no one

No one

But you

Half of me

Still believes

We never die

Won’t you lay

Next to me

Close your eyes

There’s no other

There’s no one

No one

But you

When you need me

I’ll be there

When you need me

I’ll be there

When you need me

I’ll be there

When you need me

I’ll be there

When you need me

I’ll be there

When you need me

I’ll be there

I’ll be there

I’ll be there

When you need me

There’s no other

There’s no one

But you

Twilight Override

My mind is moving fast
Faster than my stash can last
I’d love a quiet day
Someplace where I could go and stay

Override
Override
Override
Override
Twilight

I’ll need to find a new past
You were sweet, you signed my cast
Now I see clear because
I was not where I thought I was

Override
Override
Override
Override
Twilight

My mind is moving fast
Faster than my stash can last
I’d love a quiet day
Someplace where I could go and stay

Override
Override
Override
Override
Override
Override
Twilight

written by Jeff Tweedy

Family Ghost

I’m a dope
Blowing smoke at a tv screen
I’ve lost all hope
Based on the things I’ve seen
I’m a man content
For the sake of argument
But underneath each added straw
I feel so american
Spray paint me gold
Pull my face up to the blinds
I’m a family ghost
You’ll never leave behind
I wanna exist
Where the misfit fits
I want to have some purpose
I believe what she believes
I believe my children
When the lights go off
There’s no applause
Condescending to the hideous thought
Imprisoned in my lonely skin
I feel so american
Spray paint me gold
Pull my face up to the blinds
I’m a family ghost
You’ll never leave behind
Time will tell this story again
Different clothes than they wore back then
Digging holes and filling them in
I feel so american
Spray paint me gold
Pull my face up to the blinds
I’m a family ghost
You’ll never leave behind

Keep On The Sunny Side [Carter Family cover]

Enough

Has it ever been enough?
Has it ever been OK?
Have you ever felt full
At the end of a day?

Is your heart high?
Don’t lie
Is your heart higher
Than your mind?

Do you feel like you’re dyin’
Tracin’ a line
Out on your own
Like a complete unknown

Is your heart tired?
Don’t lie
Is your heart hidin’
From your fire?

It’s hard to stay in love
It’s hard to stay in love
It’s hard to stay in love
With everyone

Is there anything to say
That could change your day?
I don’t care about your thoughts
I just want everything you got

Is your heart still tryin’?
Is your heart still alive?
Is your heart still fightin’
To get out of your mind?

It’s hard to stay in love
It’s hard to stay in love
It’s hard to stay in love
With everyone

written by Jeff Tweedy

official show poster by Adam Hill

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