In anticipation of Wilco’s upcoming LP, entitled Wilco (The Album) (due out June 30th on Nonesuch), we’ve compiled a live album preview for the release. Essentially, it’s a collection of live recordings of songs that will appear on the album that have been performed live by both Wilco and Jeff Tweedy at solo shows. We’d like to thank the users of the Via Chicago forum for making many of the mp3s and lyrics included in this compilation available. Enjoy.
Wilco The Album:
01. Wilco The Song
02. Deeper Down
03. One Wing
04. Bull Black Nova
05. You And I
06. You Never Know
07. Country Disappeared
08. Solitaire
09. I’ll Fight
10. Sunny Feeling
11. Everlasting
12. Dark Neon
Wilco The Song
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MP3: Wilco – “Wilco The Song (The Colbert Report, 10/30/2008)”
Lyrics:
Are you under the impression
This isn’t your life?
Do you dabble in depression?
Is someone twisting a knife in your back?
Are you being attacked?
Oh this is a fact that you need to know, oh, oh, oh, oh
Wilco, Wilco, Wilco will love you, baby
Are times getting tough?
Are the roads you travel rough?
Have you had enough of the old?
Tired of being exposed to the cold?
Stare at your stereo
Put on your headphones and pull out your hair, oh, oh, oh, oh
Wilco, Wilco, Wilco will love you, baby
So many wars that just can’t be won, oh, oh, oh
Even before the battle’s begun, oh, oh, oh
This is all of our arms open wide
Sonic shoulder for you to cry, y, y, y, y
Wilco, Wilco will love you, baby
Is someone twisting a knife in your back?
Are you being attacked?
Oh this is a fact that you need to know
Wilco, Wilco, Wilco, Wilco, Wilco will love you, baby
Deeper Down
No live recordings of this track exist
One Wing
MP3: Wilco – “One Wing (Live @ Lollapalooza 2008: Grant Park; Chicago, IL 08/02/2008):
MP3: Wilco – “One Wing – alt (Live)”
Lyrics:
We once belonged to a bird
Who cast it’s shadow on this world
You were the best thing
And I was the curse
I did my best not to make things worse
for you
But is it true
I always knew this would be our fate
This is what happens when we separate
This happens to all dead weight eventually
We may as well be made of stone
We can’t be phoned (?or “foam”?)
One way we’ll never fight dear
Neither yours nor mine I fear
One wing
we’ll never ever fight dear
Neither yours nor mine I feel
We can only wave goodbye
One wing
we’ll never ever fight dear
neither yours nor mine I feel
we can only wave goodbye
Bye Bye
Black Bull Nova
No live recordings of this track exist
You And I
MP3: Wilco – “You And I (Live)”
Lyrics:
You and I
We might be strangers
However close we get sometimes
It’s like we never met
You and I
I think we can take it
All the good with the bad
Make something that no one else has but
You and I
You and I
And me and you
What can we do
When the words we use sometimes
Are misconstrued
Well I won’t guess
What’s coming next
I can ever tell you the
Deepest well I’ve ever fallen in to
Oh I don’t wanna know
Oh I don’t wanna know
Oh I don’t need to know
Everything about you
Oh I don’t wanna know and you
Don’t need to know
That much
About me
You and I
We might be strangers
However close we get sometimes
It’s like we never met
You and I
I think we can take it
All the good with the bad
Make something that no one else has but
You and I
You and I
You and I
You Never Know
MP3: Wilco – “You Never Know (Live 01/07/2009)”
Country Disappeared
MP3: Wilco – “Country Disappeared (Live)”
Lyrics:
Wake up we’re here
So much less than you feel
There’s nothing left here
my country has disappeared
The thinker tree’s bleeding
leaf red blood
The Summer sweet dreaming
In through the blush
A whole lot is ending (___)
much too new
Hold out your hand
There’s so much you don’t understand
so stick as close as you can
to all our best-laid plans
you’ve got the white clouds hanging
tonight above you
you’ve got the helicopters dangling
angling to shoot
The shots to feed the hungry
weekend news crew angle
I won’t take no
I won’t let you go
All Out by yourself
I know you need our help
When the cool light shakes you like a chandelier
When the snowflakes break through the atmosphere
Melt on the blue breath of the auctioneers who disappear
So every evening we can watch from above
Crush the cities and (______)
blow ourselves into each others guts
And turn our faces up to the sun
Solitaire
MP3: Wilco – “Solitaire (Live)”
Lyrics:
Once I thought the world was crazy
Everyone was sad and chasing
Happiness and love and
I was the only one above it
Once I thought without a doubt
I had it all figured out
The universe with hands unseen
I was cold as gasoline
It took too long
to see that I was
wrong to
believe in me
only
Once my life was a game so unfair
It beat me down and kept me there
Unaware of my naysaying
Solitaire was all that I was playing
It took too long
to see that I was
wrong to
believe in me
only
I’ll Fight [aka Conscript]
MP3: Wilco – “I’ll Fight [aka Conscript] (Live)”
Lyrics:
I’ll go, I’ll go, I’ll go
I’ll go for you
I’ll fight, I’ll fight
I’ll kill, I’ll kill for you
I will, I will, I will
I’ll go, I’ll go, I’ll go
I’ll go for you
I’ll fight, I’ll fight
I’ll fight, I’ll fight
I’ll die for you
I will, I will, I will
And if I die, I’ll die, I’ll die alone
On some forgotten hill
Abandoned, by the mill
Oh my blood will spring and spill
You wake this (__) from dream and know that I’m gone
You feel it in your heart but not for very long
You rise ……
Sunny Feeling
MP3: Wilco – “Sunny Feeling (Live)”
MP3: Wilco – “Sunny Feeling – alt (Live)”
Lyrics:
I was on my way home
from high school
I was stuck at the crossing
I dug in for a duel
Well at the last moment
I slammed on the brakes
My life split in two directions
Two separate fates
Got on the last flight
into Rotterdam
couldn’t hit the runway
so it took off again
“Aw no need to worry,”
the captain cut in,
“the winds are less heighty,
over in Berlin.”
You know I won’t be there for you,
So this is all I know is true,
Your darkest days are good for you,
The darkest night is nothing new
I could nearly answer
for myself
Is my life a cancer
or anybody else?
I could never find out
I could never say
I now realize
or nearly change my ways.
A sunny feeling is taken away (4x)
I was on my way home
from high school
I was stuck at the crossing
Where the kids are still cruel
Oh, the kids are still cruel
The sunny feeling is taken away (4x)
Everlasting
MP3: Wilco – “Everlasting (Live)”
Lyrics:
Everything alive must die
Every building built to the sky will fall
Don’t try to tell me my everlasting love is a lie
Everlasting
Everything
Oh nothing could be anything at all
Every way the (?)
Every book that I adored
Gone
Like a circus gone by a troubadour
Everlasting love, forever more
Everlasting
Everything
Oh nothing could mean anything at all
Oh I know this might sound sad
Everything goes for the good and the bad
So it all adds up and you should be glad
Everlasting love is all you have
Everlasting
Everything
Oh nothing could mean anything at all
Dark Neon
No live recordings of this track exist
Wilco – Wilco (The Live Album Preview)
01. Wilco The Song (The Colbert Report, 10/30/2008)
02. One Wing (Live @ Lollapalooza 2008)
03. One Wing – alt (Live)
04. You And I (Live)
05. You Never Know (Live 01/07/2009)
06. Country Disappeared (Live)
07. Solitaire (Live)
08. I’ll Fight [aka Conscript] (Live)
09. Sunny Feeling (Live)
10. Sunny Feeling – alt (Live)
11. Everlasting (Live)
Compiled by Evan Kaloudis and Ryan Nichols
