Laminated Cat (Aka Not For The Season)

Springtime comes and the leaves are back on the trees again
Snipers are harder to see my friends
Weeding out the weekends

Summer comes and gravity undoes you
You're happy because of the lovely way the sunshine bends
Hiding from your close friends
Weeding out the weekends

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
It's not for the season

When autumn comes you sit in your chair and you stare
At the TV square
Hiding in the deep end
Weeding out the weekends

Winter comes and the days all start late
There's motion on the boughs where the dark shapes prowl
Feeling out the feelings
Feeling out the feeling

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

Elegant Transaction

Be careful when you take a call for someone else
(Not a smart way to begin)
And get embroiled in someone else's life
(You don't know where that phone's been)

And don't strike a conversation with a cigarette
Like an old flame
Burned up
And out of breath

A slip of the tongue is all it takes
(It seems you need a helping hand)
To find yourself in someone else's place
(Back in the saddle again)

And don't pretend you don't know where it's headed for
A connection all the same

Exchange small talk about the good old days
(It seems they've done better than you)
Your stories match despite the different names
(I guess that all you heard was true)

And don't go along unless you've lost your way

A connection all the same
Like you're in love's cold sleigh

  written by Jeff Tweedy/ Jim O’Rourke, Glenn Kotche

So Long

Don't look at me, you won't find me there
Found a lodger for my face

Don't bother asking where I have been
I sent someone in my place

Takes so long, to go wrong, say so long to yourself
It's so wrong, to go on, to go on with yourself

Don't trouble yourself to ask me
The odds are I can't tell

If I said I love you
I was talking to myself

Takes so long, to go wrong, say so long to yourself
It's so wrong, to go on, to go on with yourself
Takes so long, when you're gone, say so long to yourself
It's so wrong, to go on, to take on by yourself

You Were Wrong

You bore hearts
And disco spurs

Translate me
Half-light for trains
While the floor
Operates my legs
And my eyes
And finger finger the rain
You were wrong
When you leave
You're not gone
Inside me
You were wrong
You're not gone
You were wrong
Trees are turning on balanced love
"Don't advertise, " I interrupt
You were wrong
To believe
In me
When you leave
You're not gone
Inside me
You were wrong
Let your helmet
Warm your skull
Gather cracks
For gathering moss
You were wrong
To believe
In me
When you leave
You're not gone
Inside me
You were wrong

Liquidation Totale

instrumental written by Jeff Tweedy, Glenn Kotche and Jim O'Rourke

Chinese Apple

If I sleep too much
A good Chinese apple
Shine to the touch
My sweet-feeling capital
It's hard to change
Something supernatural
Unlock my body and move myself at last
In the warm liquid, flowing glowing glass
Classical music, blasting masks are ringing in my ears
Am i waiting for the only recovery of simple paths between the branches
Flowering chance fence-slats rattling
Fingers pushing through slowly brushing past a fast glimpse of you
If I sleep too much
A good Chinese apple
Shine to the touch
My sweet-feeling capital
It's hard to change
Something supernatural