Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot Lyrics
1.I Am Trying to Break Your Heart

I am an American aquarium drinker
I assassin down the avenue
I'm running out in the big city blinking
What was I thinking when i let go of you?
Let's forget about the tongue-tied lightning
Let's undress just like cross-eyed strangers
This is not a joke so please stop smiling
What was I thinking when i said it didn't hurt?
I want to glide through those brown eyes dreaming
Take from the inside, lady gold on tight
You so right when you said i been drinking
What was i thinking when we said goodnight?
I want to hold you in the bible-black pre-dawn
You're quite a quiet domino, bury me not
Take off your bandaid because i don't believe in touchdowns
What was i thinking when we said hello?
I always thought that if i held you tightly
You'd always love me like you did back then
Then i fell asleep & the city kept blinking
What was I thinking when i let you back in?
I am trying to break your heart
I am trying to break your heart
Used to be lying when i said it wasn't easy
I am trying to break your heart
Disposable Dixie cup drinking
I assassin down the avenue
I'm running out in the big city blinking
What was I thinking when i let go of you?


2.Kamera

I need a camera
To my eye
To my eye reminding
Which lies i been hiding

I've counted out
Just to see how far
I've driven in the dark
It echoes in my heart
For my family
Tell 'em I'm lost on the sidewalk
And, no, it's not okay
I smashed a camera
I want to know why
To my eye
Deciding which lies that I been hiding
Which _ _ belong
I'm counting on
My _ _
To walk me through this war
Whenever wounds get stored
For my family
Tell 'em I'm lost on the sidewalk
And, no, it's not okay
I'm counted out
But no one knows how far
I've driven in the dark
It echoes in my heart
For my family
Tell 'em I'm lost, yeah, i'm lost
And, no, it's not okay
And, no, it's not okay
And, no, it's not okay


3.Radio Cure

Cheer up, honey, I hope you can
There is something wrong with me
My mind is filled with silvery star
Honey kisses, clouds of fog
Sugars shrugging off
Cheer up, honey, i hope you can
There is something wrong with me
My mind is filled with radio cures
Electronic surgical words
Picking apples for kings & queens of things I've never seen
Oh, distance has no way of making love understandable
Cheer up, honey, i hope you can
There is something wrong with me
My mind is filled with silvery star
Honey kisses, clouds of fog
Picking apples for kings & queens of things I've never seen
Oh, distance has no way of making love understandable
Oh, distance has no way of making love understandable
Oh, distance has the way of making love understandable
Oh, distance has the way of making love understandable
Cheer up, honey, i hope you can


4.War on War

It's a war on war
It's a war on war
It's a war on war
It's a war on war
It's a war on war
It's a war on war
It's a war on war
There's a war on
You're gonna lose
You have to lose
You have to learn how to die
It's watching miles flying by
It's watching the miles flying by
You not my type _ _ _
You can be my demon movie foe
If we play indoors
You have to lose
You have to learn how to die
If you wanna wanna _ _ _
You have to lose
You have to lose
You wanna wanna be up high
You have to die
You have to die
You have to learn how to die
(okay)


5.Jesus, Ect.

Jesus, don't cry
You can rely on me honey
You combine anything you want
I'll be around
You were right about the stars
Each one is a setting sun
Tall buildings shake
Voices are scared
Singing sad sad songs
Two two 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 are scared
Singing sad sad songs
Two two chords
Strung down your cheeks
Bitter melodies
Turning your orbit around
Voices whine
Skyscrapers are scraping together your voice
It's 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 got is money
Everyone is a burning sun
Tall buildings shake
Voices are scared
Singing sad sad songs
Two two chords
Strung down your cheeks
Bitter melodies
Turning your orbit around
Voices whine
Skyscrapers are scraping together your voice
It's 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


6.Ashes of American Flags

The cash machine is blue & green
$400 in twenties and small silver _
I could spend $3.63 on Diet Coca Cola
And unlit cigarettes
I wonder why we listen to poets
And nobody gives a thought
How hot & sorrowful
This machine begs for naught
All my lies are always wishes
I know i could die if i could come back new
I want a good life
With a nose for things
Fresh wind & bright sky
To enjoy my suffering
A hole without a key
If i break my tongue
Speakingof tomorrow
How will it ever come
Oh, all my lies are always wishes
I know i will die if i could come back new
I am down on my hands & knees
Every time the doorbell rings
I shake like a toothache
When i hear myself sing
Oh, my lies are only wishes
I know i will die if i could come back new
I would like to salute
The ashes of American flags
And all the fallen leaves
Filling up shopping bags


7.Heavy Metal Drummer

I still miss those heavy metal bands
She used to go see on the landing in the summer
She fell in love with a drummer
She fell in love with the drummer
She fell in love
Shiny shiny pants and bleach blonde hair
A double kick drum by the river in the summer
She fell in love with a drummer
Another & another
She fell in love
I miss the innocence I've known
Playing KISS covers
Beautiful & stoned
Unlock my body and move myself to dance
In long liquid flowing blowing glass
Classical music blasting
That's still ringing in my ears
I still miss those heavy metal bands
She used to go see on the landing in the summer
She fell in love with a drummer
She fell in love with the drummer
She fell in love
I miss the innocence I've known
Playing KISS covers
Beautiful & stoned
I miss the innocence I've known
Playing KISS covers
Beautiful & stoned
Playing KISS covers
Beautiful & stoned
Playing KISS covers
Beautiful & stoned


8.I'm the Man Who Loves You

All I can see is black & white & white & pink
And play it to blue
Then lay between the words I think
That picture that i was meaning to send her
You, i couldn't tell if i bring my art
The way I started
Writing this letter to you
If i could, you know i would
Just hold your hand & you'd understand
I'm the man who loves you
All I can be is a busy sea of
Spinning wheels & hands that feel
For stone to throw
And feet that run
That come back home and
makes no difference, ever ya know
Makes no difference ever known to me
If i could, you know i would
Just hold your hand & you'd understand
I'm the man who loves you
All I can see is black & white & white & pink
And play it to blue
Then lay between the words I think
That picture that i was meaning to send her
You, i couldn't tell if i bring my art
The way I started
Writing this letter to you
If i could, you know i would
If i could, you know i would
If i could, you know i would
I'm the man who loves you
I'm the man who loves you
I'm the man who loves you
I'm the man who loves you


9.Pot Kettle Black

Crazy rides rockets
Who has a magic wand
Empty out your pockets
Words without a song

I myself have found a real rival in myself
I am hoping for a re-arrival of my health

Sleeping eye sockets
Baby suck your thumb
I'll keep you in my locket
A string I never strum

It's become so obvious
You are so oblivious to yourself

You're tied in a knot
But I'm not gonna get caught
Calling a pot kettle black
Every song's a comeback
Every moment's a little bit later

Lazy locomotives
wherever you may roll
I think you have no motive
I know you have no home

It's become so obvious
You are so oblivious to yourself

You're tied in a knot
But I'm not gonna get caught
Calling a pot kettle black
Every song's a comeback
Every moment's a little bit later
Every moment's a little bit later
Every moment's a little bit later
Every moment's a little bit later


10.Poor Places

It's my father's voice dreaming of
Sailors sailing off in the morning
for the air-conditioned rooms
at the top of the stairs

His jaw's been broken
his bandage is wrapped too tight
his fangs have been pulled
and i really want to see you tonight

There's Bourbon on the breath
of the singer you love so much
He takes all his words from the books
that you don't read anyway

His jaw's been broken
his bandage is wrapped too tight
My fangs have been pulled
and I really want to see you tonight

Someone ties a bow
in my backyard to show me love
My voice is climbing walls
smoking and i want love

My jaw's been broken
My heart is wrapped in ice
My fangs have been pulled
and i really want to see you tonight

And it makes no difference to me
how they cried all over overseas
It's hot in the poor places tonight
I'm not going outside

They cried all over overseas
It makes no difference to me
It's hot in the poor places tonight
I'm not going outside


11.Reservations

How can I convince you it's me I don't like
And not be so indifferent to the look in your eyes
When I've always been distant
and I've always told lies for love

I'm bound by these choices so hard to make
I'm bound by the feeling so easy to fake
None of this is real enough to take me from you

Oh I've got reservations
about so many things
but not about you

I know this isn't what you were wanting me to say
How can I get closer and be further away
From the truth that proves it's beautiful to lie

I've got reservations
about so many things
but not about you
I've reservations
about so many things
but not about you
not about you
not about you
not about you
not about you