Wilco - Ode to Joy Album Lyrics

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Bright Leaves

I don't like
The way you're treating me
Warm winter rain
I found my keys
Under the snow
An empty page glowing
Alone for days
Behind a quiet door
Sitting in a drift
Us in a car
Arguing, I forgive
But I always forget
Which side I'm on

I never change
You never change

It's my fault
There's no decision
Sometimes I'm just a hole
For you to get in

I never change
You never change

Somehow we're bright leaves
You and I beneath the old snow
Being set free by the winter rain
And I know it'll never change

You never change
You never change
You never change
You never change
You never change
You're never gonna change
You're never gonna change
You never change
You never change
You never change
You never change
You never change
You're never gonna change
You're never gonna change

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Before Us

I'm surprised staring at the knives
Lying silent in the drawer
I hear the front door ring in my guitar
Empty up against the wall

Alone with the people who have come before
Alone with the people who have come before
Alone with the people who have come before us
I'm high for the people who have come before
I'm high for the people who have come before
I'm high for the people who have come before us

I remember when wars would end
Remember when wars would end?
Now when something's dead
Now when something's dead
We try to kill it again

Alone with the people who have come before
Alone with the people who have come before
Alone with the people who have come before us

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One and a Half Stars

I wish too much for you to care
Goldfish I won at the fair
Meet the mother
Can't complain
There is no mother like pain

I'm left with only my desire to change
So what I stay in bed all day?
I can't escape my domain
Two stories high in bed all day
I can't escape my domain

You mean too much to me
I'm angry
I could need so much
I'm worried about the way
We're all living
And this is my love song

I'm left with only my desire to change
So if I stay in bed all day
I won't escape my domain
Two stories high in bed all day
I can't escape my domain

I can't escape my domain
I won't escape my domain

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Quiet Amplifier

I wish your world was mine
I wish your world was mine
Rails spun along the wires
Home, ain't no trains gonna come
I have waited my whole life
I tried, in my way, to love everyone

I wish your world was mine
I wish your world was mine
I have a quiet amplifier
Silence sings more true
Every guitar is denied
I tried, in my way, to love you

I wish your world was mine
I wish your world was mine
I wouldn't mind feeling fine
I wish your world was mine

If only your world was mine
If only your world was mine
Shattered the stars would shine
Shy little flower on the vine

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Everyone Hides

If you're telling yourself a story
Where the secrets twist like vines
And you know where the bodies are buried
But you can't remember where you buried the mines

Oh no, on the nights
Everyone hides
Oh, oh
Everyone hides

If you served yourself on a tale
Where the details drift with time
Where the point gets lost in the telling
And the telling was the point all the while

Deep inside
Everyone hides
Oh, oh
Some of the time

If you're selling yourself on a vision
A dream of who you are
An idea of how it should be
And a wish upon a star

Remember
Remember
It can't be denied
Oh, oh
Everyone hides

Oh no, on the nights
Everyone hides
Oh, oh
Everyone hides

Oh, oh
Oh, oh
Oh, oh

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White Wooden Cross

A white wooden cross by the side of the road
One someone lost that I did not know
What would I do?
What would I do?
If a white wooden cross meant that I'd lost you

I asked myself how would I let go?
And a thought appeared like a morning dew
And my blood ran cold
My blood ran cold
As these sad ideas passed through

Tell me no lies
Tell me no lies
Is it stranger to live?
Is it stranger to die?

What would I do?
What would I do?
If a white wooden cross meant that I'd lost you

Tell me no lies
Tell me no lies
Is it stranger to live?
Is it stranger to be alive?

For all the people that I am not
And all their prayers and all their thoughts
There's so much more out there
Than here where I stand
I blow my horn for the whole band

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Citizens

Giant lights, birdless skies
Throw me on the road
Wound tight, misfire
Darling, the killer you know

White lies, white lies
White lies, white lies

Women and men
Citizens
Carry your own cross
Careless, careless
You are the albatross

White lies, white lies
White lies, white lies

Pine box, stop the clocks
Why can't both be true
High times, high crimes
Medals for you to salute

White lies, white lies
White lies, white lies

White lies, white lies
White lies, white lies

White lies, white lies
White lies, white lies

White lies, white lies

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We Were Lucky

All I saw from where I stood
The sun was smiling down on us
We were lucky that's for sure
I was yours

Now all I see from where I'm from
Empty auditorium
We were lucky that's for sure
I was yours
And you didn't mind
Being mine

There was a pop in my ear
As I left the atmosphere
Dragging behind my mind
It's too late
Don't say it
Don't say

All I saw from where I stood
Feel our mountains and the world
I'm lucky that's for sure
I'm yours
And you didn't mind
Being mine

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Love Is Everywhere (Beware)

So tangled in the wild
Seeing myself as something more mean
Out in the country
Sadness wants me
Further away from the scene

Right now, right now
Love is everywhere
Right now, right now
Love is everywhere

Where the sunlight grabs the lake
It's frozen in the flames
Beneath the sleeping town
With the riots raining down
It's all yours now
It's all for you

Right now, right now
Love is everywhere
Right now, right now
Love is everywhere

So many things I do
I can't explain to you
Right now, right now
Love is everywhere
Right now, I'm frightened how
Love is here, beware

Our love is everywhere

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Hold Me Anyway

So you might not give a damn
I am like a hologram
Light is all I am

Time is nothing I can keep
It's the same as when I sleep
If time is just to kill
Then I will

Overflowing like a crowd
And I'm freaking the f*ck out
I'll try to do my best
I guess

High in an old dead tree
That plastic bag is me
That's where I want to be

Are we all in love just because?
No! I think it's poetry and magic
Something too big to have a name
And when you get it right it's still tragic
And when you die who's to blame?
Did you think everything would be okay?

Are we all in love just because?
No! I think it's poetry and magic
Something too big to have a name
And when you get it right it's still tragic
And when you die who's to blame?
Did you think everything would be okay?

No! I think it's poetry and magic
Something too big to have a name
And when you get it right it's still tragic
When you die who's to blame?
Do you think everything will be okay?

Okay

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An Empty Corner

Eight tiny lines of cocaine
Left on a copy machine
In an empty corner of a dream
My sleep could not complete

There are sirens in the birds
And you and I are too far apart
And my eyes need a shave
What else can go wrong?

Now that I'm not longed for
Wild life seems wrong
Won't care
Won't stare
You've got family out there

The silver black boot
That cracked my front tooth
Is a new kind of truth
I'm getting used to

Come back lonely
How sad if only
I don't believe you don't care
You've got family out there

Where the power lines are down
Whipping sparks around
Like angels touching down
I see you there

How sad
If only
Don't believe you don't care
You've got family out there
You've got family out there