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
Better Song
Alone in the temple
Asking my heart to beat
I’m setting an example
By tapping my feet
And in the crescendo
Notes I cannot reach
A world without windows
No method to teach
I need a better song
If I’m gonna sing
I better have a better song
For you to love me
Shaking like a rattlesnake
My maraca
Waiting for my mistakes
To be forgotten
The way that my mind moves
My intention
When you hear the devil’s hooves
Pay attention
If they say it’s good for me
I start laughing
Everything that I sing
Is not happening
I need a better song
If I’m gonna sing
Better have a better song
For you to love me
written by Jeff Tweedy
I Am My Mother
Dangerous dreams have been detected
Streaming over the southern border
As bad as it seems it’s worse than expected
Fleeing through the night corridor
Oh I’ve done the math
With a stick in the sand
I’ve kicked the can
Into a dead end
Oh I can’t mend
Every broken fence
I’m a new man
But I am still my mother
If it was up to me I would have rejected
The idea that money could keep you poor
And as dark as it seems it’s worse than neglected
When you need the one who loves no more
Oh I’ve done the math
With a stick in the sand
I’ve kicked the can
Into a dead end
Oh I can’t mend
Every broken fence
I’m a new man
But I am still my mother
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
One Sunday Morning (Song For Jane Smiley's Boyfriend)
This is how I tell it
O’ but it’s long
One Sunday morning
O’ one son is gone
Against the weather dawning
Over the sea
My father said what I had become
No one should be
Outside I look lived in
Like the bones in a shrine
How am I forgiven
O’ I’ll give it time
This I learned without warning
Holding my brow
In time you thought I would kill him
O’ but I didn’t know how
I said it’s your God I don’t believe in
No your bible can’t be true
Knocked down by the long lie
He cried I fear what waits for you
I can hear those bells
Spoken and gone
I feel relief I feel well
Now he knows he was wrong
Ring ‘em cold for my father
Frozen underground
Jesus I wouldn’t bother
He belongs to me now
Something sad keeps moving
So I wandered around
I fell in love with the burden
Holding me down
Bless my mind I miss
Being told how to live
What I learned without knowing
How much more that I owe than I can give
This is how I tell it
O’ but it’s long
One Sunday morning
One son is gone
Everlasting Everything
Everything alive must die
Every building built to the sky will fall
But don’t try to tell me my
Everlasting love is a lie
Everlasting everything
Oh nothing could mean anything at all
Every wave that hits the shore
Every book that I adore
Gone like a circus, gone like a troubadour
Everlasting love forever more
Everlasting everything
Oh nothing could mean anything at all
Oh I know this might sound sad
But everything goes, both the good and the bad
So it all adds up, and you should be glad
Everlasting love is all you had
Everlasting everything
Oh nothing could mean anything at all
Everlasting everything
Oh nothing could mean anything at all
A Lifetime to Find
Oh death
Oh death
I was just getting dressed
The place is a mess
I was hoping you’d forget
But I can feel you in my chest
I can feel you in my chest
Oh yes
Oh yes
Death never rests
I can see you’ve done your best
The problem is just this
It’s too late for regrets
I am here to collect
It takes a lifetime to find
A life like the life
You had in mind
It takes a lifetime to find
A life like the life
You had in mind
Now you’re mine
Oh death
I confess
I should have known what to expect
But you’re so hard to accept
Last time I checked
I was neck and neck
As healthy as the next
Oh Yes
You were blessed
Blessed in the past tense
But it’s too late now
To make it make sense
It’s too late to pretend
This day won’t ever end
It takes a lifetime to find
A life like the life
You had in mind
It takes a lifetime to find
A life like the life
You had in mind
Now you’re mine
So alright
Today’s the day and
Tonight is the night
There’s no reason there’s no rhyme
It’s just time to go goodbye
But why can’t you try
To ease what’s on
my poor mind
O’ Jeff
Don’t obsess
It’s the best that I can do
To help you see the light
And help the light to see you
It’s true there was a truth
That was you and only you ever knew
It takes a lifetime to find
The life like the life you had in mind
It takes a lifetime to find
The life like the life you had in mind
It takes a lifetime to find
The life like the life you had in mind
Now you’re mine
written by Jeff Tweedy
Jesus, Etc.
Jesus, don't cry
You can rely on me honey
You can combine anything you want
I'll be around
You were right about the stars
Each one is a setting sun
Tall buildings shake
Voices escape singing sad sad songs
Tuned to chords strung down your cheeks
Bitter melodies turning your orbit around
Don't cry
You can rely on me honey
You can come by any time you want
I'll be around
You were right about the stars
Each one is a setting sun
Tall buildings shake
Voices escape singing sad sad songs
Tuned to chords strung down your cheeks
Bitter melodies turning your orbit around
Voices whine
Skyscrapers are scraping together
Your voice is smoking
Last cigarettes are all you can get
Turning your orbit around
Our love
Our love
Our love is all we have
Our love
Our love is all of God's money
Everyone is a burning sun
Tall buildings shake
Voices escape singing sad sad songs
Tuned to chords strung down your cheeks
Bitter melodies turning your orbit around
Voices whine
Skyscrapers are scraping together
Your voice is smoking
Last cigarettes are all you can get
Turning your orbit around
Last cigarettes are all you can get
Turning your orbit around
Last cigarettes are all you can get
Turning your orbit around
Acuff-Rose (Uncle Tupelo)
Early in the morning,
Sometimes late at night
Sometimes I get the feeling
That everything's alright
Early in the evening,
Sometimes in the day
Sometimes I get the feeling
Everything's okay
Because everything
Cuts against the tide
When you're by my side
Name me a song
That everybody knows
And I'll bet you it belongs
To Acuff-Rose
Children in the playground,
The folks in the home
Anybody anywhere
Who's ever been alone
'Cause everything
Cuts against the tide
When I hear that sound
Dreamer in My Dreams
Well there's a dreamer in my dreams
Swinging from the beams
With light shining off the snow
Well there's a singer in my heart
Burning up my charts
With songs about things we all know
Well there's a blister on his brain
That's driving him insane
’Cause all good things they gotta go
Well there's a child on the way
It could be any day
But how his life will change
That we don't know
Well there's a child on the way
Gonna look just like him
One day, he's gonna say
"Ain't you my dad?"
Then he's gonna look down and smile
And after a while, he'll say,
"That's for sure, cause you got my eyes."
Well there's a dreamer in my dreams
He's hanging from the beams
With light shining off the snow
There's a blister on his brain
It's driving him insane
And all good things have to go
There's a dreamer in my dreams
Swinging from the beams
With a light shining off the lake
Well I know I've made mistakes
I'm passing them on
But I hope he gets up before dawn
There's a dreamer in my dreams
Climbing up the back
Of a car they used to call a Cadillac
It's got a brand new set of keys
It’s got a new look, it’s got a new look
And he’s gonna, he’s gonna take it all the way
There's a dreamer in my dreams,
Swinging from the beams
All jacked up in my garage
He's hanging from a belt
He don't know what he's done
Just don't forget to say goodbye when he's gone
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 AoneHalf-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
Amar Bharati
The arm Amar Bharati
Lifted in the air
Is still there
In the air
Since 1973
It’s every day
It’s every day
It’s every day
It’s every day
It’s every day
The war Amar Bharati
Put in his right hand
He kept it there
In the air
Since 1973
It’s every day
It’s every day
It’s every day
It’s every day
It’s every day
It’s not a made-up story
Or hyperbole
It’s right there
In the air
Since 1973
It’s still there
It’s in the air
It’s still there
It’s in the air
It’s still there
It’s in the air
It’s still there
It’s in the air
(Still there)
(In the air)
(Still there)
(In the air)
(Still there)
(In the air)
(Still there)
(In the air)
(Still there)
(In the air)
(Still there)
(In the air)
(Still there)
(In the air)
written by Jeff Tweedy
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 TweedyA Robin or a Wren
At the last last call
When it’s time for us all
To say goodbye
I know I’m gonna cry
Know I'm gonna cry
Because all in all
I’m just having a ball
Being alive
And I don’t want to die
I don’t wanna die
At the end of the end
Of this beautiful dream we’re in
I’ll wake up again
A robin or a wren
And then I’ll sit
Outside your window
I’ll sing a song you’ll recognize
And you won’t know why
You won’t know why
And then a teardrop will fall
Into the corner of the smile
On your face
And I’ll be alive
I’ll be alive
I’ll be alive
I’ll be alive
I’ll be alive
I’ll be alive
Save it for Me
Save it for me
When the world falls apart
I can say with certainty
There’s a reason
A light left on in an empty room
Is how a love can be
A rainbow word in a mouth of clouds
Darkened days
Who needs you now?
A rainbow word in a mouth of clouds
Darkened days
Who needs me now?
Save it for me
When the world falls apart
I can say with certainty
There’s a reason
There’s a pie left out that you can’t consume
So sweet you cannot eat
There’s a reason
No one will call today
The people you lean on
Don’t always know
What to say
Save it for me
When the world falls apart
I can say with certainty
There’s a reason
A light left on in an empty room
Is how a love can be
Is all a love can be
Is all a love can be
Is all a love can be
Cry Baby Cry
You say you’re the one who saw me first
Standing at the register dying of thirst
Now we’re looking at the moon lying on the roof
Crying tears one-hundred-proof
Cry, baby, cry
Staring deep in the night
I know you try
But you never get it right
So cry, baby, cry
Well that’ll always be how I see you
Walking like you’ve got a rock in your shoe
Some would say that’s just the way you move
When there’s not enough love and too much to prove
Cry, baby, cry
Staring deep in the night
I know you try
But you never get it right
So cry, baby, cry
Cry, baby, cry
Staring deep in the night
I know you try
But you never get it right
So cry, baby, cry
I know you try
But you never get it right
So cry, baby, cry
written by Jeff Tweedy
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
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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
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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
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Twilight
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