Throwaway Lines
I don’t want to write about
All the things I’m still working out
Terrible things you wouldn't believe
So I’ll just leave you with these
Throwaway lines
The best I can do
Throwaway lines like
“I love you”
I'm afraid you can see
What I really mean when I sing
In between
Throwaway lines
I don’t wanna let you down
I always want you around
But, man, my tongue gets so tied
And the hurt gets harder to hide
With throwaway lines
It’s the best I can do
Throwaway lines like
“I love you”
They don’t have to be true
Throwaway lines
An endless parade
Throwaway lines
Just taking up space
I’m afraid you can see
What I really mean
When I sing
In between
My throwaway lines
I’m afraid you can see
What I really mean
When I sing
In between
My throwaway lines
written by Jeff Tweedy
Saddest Eyes
The world keeps coming apart
And no one knows where to start
All the best brains are broken
In you I see
Something I believe
I’ve known
Has been unspoken
You have the saddest eyes
You have the saddest eyes
I would like to give my regards
To whoever’s in charge
Of making this day feel so long
Making me feel
Like you’ve always been gone
You have the saddest eyes
You have the saddest eyes
You have the brightest light
Behind the saddest eyes
written by Jeff Tweedy
Secret Door
Summertime
Shy kid
Listening like a drum
My love for you is crystalized
In spite of what you’ve done
I pulled down the pink curtains
You tore up the rug
We found someone’s diamond ring
When we were smashing up the tub
What I wanted
If I’m telling the truth
It could’ve been anyone
It just happened to be you
Sharks shine
Like silver wings
Flying down in the sea
Leaning in for a drunken kiss
Jesus Christ, there’s no time for this
There’s a secret door in every heart I’m sure
You’ve found mine
I’m still looking for yours
Summer keeps arguing
Listening like a drum
Do you know why I love you?
Do you know what you’ve done?
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
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
Country Disappeared
Wake up, we’re here
It’s so much worse than we feared
There’s nothing left here
Our country has disappeared
With the winter trees bleeding leaf red blood
And the summer sweet dreaming April blush
But none of that it is ever going to mean as much to me again
Hold out your hand
There’s so much we don’t understand
So stick as close as you can
To all of your best laid plans
You’ve got the white clouds hanging so high above you
You’ve got the helicopters dangling, angling to shoot
The shots to feed the hungry weekend news crew anchormen
So every evening we can watch from above
Crush the cities like a bug
Fold ourselves into each other’s guts
Turn our faces up to the sun
I won’t take no
I won’t let you go
All by yourself
I know you need my help
When the cold light shakes you like a chandelier
The snowflakes break through the atmosphere
And melt on the blue breath of the auctioneers and disappear
So every evening we can watch from above
Crush the cities like a bug
Fold ourselves into each other’s blood
Turn our faces up to the sun
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
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 TweedyHalf-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
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
You Are Not Alone
You're not alone
I'm with you
I'm lonely too
What's that song
Can't be sung
By two?
My broken home
A broken heart
Isolated and afraid
Open up this is a raid
I want to get it through to you
You're not alone
You're not alone
Every night
I stand in your place
Every tear
On every face
Tastes the same
A broken dream
A broken heart
Isolated and afraid
Open up this is a raid
I wanna get it through to you
You're not alone
An open hand
An open....
written by Jeff Tweedy for Mavis Staples - You Are Not Aone
Judy Ball of Light
Arriving in the dust dream
Above the television
Ball of light
Maybe you don't see it because
Only Judy can
Ball of light
Ball of light
Hold it in your hand
And give it back to
The only man
Who belongs to you
In front of everyone
Hefted in the arms of
Her first real romance
Like a
Ball of light
Ball of light
Judy sees the beauty
Only Pete understands
Ball of light
Ball of light
Hold it in your hand
And give it back to
The only man
Who belongs to you
In front of everyone
Up from the wood floor
Around the corner back and forth
Ball of light
Ball of light
What form love takes
Restored just before
We say goodbye
Hold it in your arms
And give it back
To the only one
Who belongs to you
In front of everyone
written by Jeff Tweedy
Sonny Feeling
I was on my way home
From high school
Stuck at the crossing
I dug in for a duel
But at the last moment
I buried the brakes
My life split in two directions
Into two separate fates
I got on the last flight
To Amsterdam
But couldn’t hit the runway
So we took off again
“Aw, there’s no need to worry”
The captain cut in
“The winds are less angry
Over in Berlin”
You know it’s true
The other shoe
It waits for you
What can you do?
Remember to show gratitude
The darkest night is nothing new
Sonny’s got a problem
All the mini-mart clerks know
She knows nothing of Eminem’s
Suburban gangster flow
Oh maybe it’s random
How each moment unfolds
It didn’t feel like the wrong time or place
Until they cut off her clothes
A sunny feeling is taken away
A sunny feeling is taken away
A sunny feeling is taken away
A sunny feeling is taken away
I’m on my way home
From my high school
I’m always contemplating
Why the kids are still cruel
Oh
The kids are still cruel
A sunny feeling is taken away
A sunny feeling is taken away
A sunny feeling is taken away
Some of the feeling gets taken away
Love Is The King
Here I am
There it is
At the edge
Of as bad as it gets
I’m a boxer
Blind when I swing
I sink
To my knees
I cling
And I bleed
But cry don’t you dare
When I die in the ring
Life isn’t fair
Love is the king
Love is the king
Love is the king
Of the beautiful trees
How everyone sings
And tanks in the street
Like cats
Watching with skill
Green and grey
Violent and still
Spinning above
Stones in slings
When push comes to shove
Love is the king
Love is the king
Love is the king
Love is the king
Love is the king
Love is the king
I'm Always In Love
Why, I wonder is my heart full of holes
And the feeling goes but my hair keeps growing
Will I set the sun
On a big-wheeled wagon
Well I'm bragging
I'm always in love
When I let go of your throat, sweet throttle
When I clean the lash of your black-belt model
Will I catch the moon
Like a bird in a cage
It's for you I swoon
I'm always in love
I don't get the connection
If this is only a test
I hope I do my best
You know I won't forget
When I fold the cold in my jet-lag palm
When I soak so long I forget my mother
Will I set the sun
On a big-wheeled wagon
Well I'm bragging
I'm always in love
It's a drag I snag
Well I'm always in love
Well I'm worried
I'm always in love
I'm worried
I'm worried
I'm worried
I'm always in love
I'm worried
I'm worried
I'm worried
I'm always in love
I'm worried
I'm worried
I'm worried
I'm always in love
I'm worried
I'm worried
I'm worried
I'm always in love
Instrumental credits:
Jeff Tweedy – vocals, baritone guitar
Jay Bennett – bass, piano, keyboards, drums, backing vocals
John Stirratt – piano, backing vocals
Ken Coomer – drums
Muzzle Of Bees
There’s a random painted highway
And a muzzle of bees
My sleeves have come unstitched
From climbing your tree
When dogs laugh some say they’re barking
I don’t think they’re mean
Some people get so frightened
The fences in between
The sun gets passed from tree to tree
Silently
Then back to me
With a breeze blown through
Pushed up against the sea
Finally back to me
I’m assuming you got my message
On your machine
I’m assuming you love me
And you know what that means
The sun gets passed from sea to sea
Silently
And back to me
With a breeze blown through
Pushed up above the leaves
With a breeze blowing through
My head upon your knee
Half of it’s you
Half is me
Half of it’s you
Half is me
Instrumental Credits
Jeff Tweedy Vocals, Acoustic Baritone 12 String & Lead Guitar
John Stirratt Piano, Background Vocals
Glenn Kotche Drums
Leroy Bach Bass
Mikael Jorgensen Piano & Farfisa Organ
Jim O'Rourke Acoustic Guitar & Piano
Airline to Heaven
There's an airline plane
Flies to Heaven every day
Past them pearly gates
If you want to ride this train
Have your ticket in your hand Before it is too late.
If the world looks wrong
And your money's spent and gone
And your friend has turned away
You can get away to Heaven
On this aeroplane
Just bow your head and pray.
Them's got ears let them hear
Them's got eyes let them see
Turn Your Eyes to the Lord of the skies
Take that airline
Plane It will
Take You Home again.
Yes, to your home behind the skies.
Well, a lot of people guess
Some say no and some
say
Yes
Will it take some and leave some behind?
But you will surely know
When to the airport go
To
leave this world behind
Oh, a lot of speakers speak
And a lot of preachers
preach
When you lay their salary on the line
But to
bow your head and pray
Is the only earthly way
That you can fly to Heaven on time.
That you can
reach Heaven on time.
Your ticket you obtain
On this heavenly airline
plane
You leave your sins behind
You have got to
take this flight
Might be daytime, might be night,
But you can't see your way if you're blind
Published by Woody Guthrie Publications, Inc. (BMI)/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing
Corp./Words-Ampersand Music (BMI)/You Want A Piece Of This Music (ASCAP),
administered by Bug Music
Words: Woody Guthrie 1939
Music: Jay Bennett/Jeff Tweedy 1997
Jay Bennett: 12-string acoustic slide guitars, backing vocals, shakers, saw, claps
John Stirratt: backing vocals, claps
Jeff Tweedy: vocal, acoustic guitar, Mellotrone, claps
You Satellite
Somehow
A satellite
Can of light
Looks so red
Unbottle the halo
A satellite
Can chains change any failure when all along
Someone can change it
Follow on
Sometimes I don't hate it lately
What I don't know I'm gonna bleed it away
Reunite
The dynamite
Catch it all and reunite
Dynamite how high
I'm more moved by the maybe, it's ok
You can't sing what you can't give away
I've come all this way to hold your hand
I became a calendar while I was waiting
I - I won't live any what you can't give it away
I - I won't miss any what I'm giving away
Don't want to go and I don't want to stay
You satellite (x3)
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
Just a Kid
Maybe I'm just a kid
Maybe I just don't fit in
I'm ready, I'm ready, I'm ready, I'm ready to go now
I don't wanna go to school
But I don't get to make the rules
Too early, too early, too early, too early in the morning
Everybody, everybody, everybody, everybody
Has to do something they don't want to do
Everybody, everybody, everybody, everybody
Has to be something, oh, why is that true?
Maybe I'm not so big
Maybe I just don't fit in
I'm ready, I'm ready, I'm ready, I'm ready for more now
And I don't wanna go to bed
There's so much going on in my head
Not tired, not tired, not tired, not tired right now
Everybody, everybody, everybody, everybody
Has to do something they don't want to do
Everybody, everybody, everybody, everybody
Has to be something, oh, why is that true?
Everybody, everybody, everybody, everybody
Everybody, everybody, everybody, everybody
Everybody, everybody, everybody, everybody
Everybody, everybody, everybody, everybody
Has to be something, let's have some fun
Na na na
Na na na
Na na na
Na na na
Na na na
Na na na
Na na na
Na na na
Everybody, everybody, everybody, everybody
Everybody, everybody, everybody, everybody
Everybody, everybody, everybody, everybody
Everybody, everyone, somebody, anyone
Has to grow up, let's have some fun