Cover art for Bull Black Nova by Wilco

Bull Black Nova

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Jun. 30, 20091 viewer

Bull Black Nova Lyrics

[Verse 1]
It's in my hair, it's on my clothes
It's in the river, over the road
It's shining down, my angry star
Hanging off the hood of my car
I'm not going far
Not going far

[Verse 2]
It's coming down, they're coming up the shoulders
What have they found? I wonder if they know
I'm in a bull black Chevy Nova
Silhouetted by the setting sun
This can't be undone
This can't be undone

[Verse 3]
If I'm the one, blood on the sofa
Blood in the sink, blood in the trunk
High at the wheel of a bull black Nova
And I'm sorry as a setting sun
This can't be undone
Can't be outrun

[Verse 4]
It's in my hair, there's blood in the sink
I can't calm down, I can't think
I keep calling, there's blood in the trunk
I can't calm down
I freak out
Black out

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Spoiler Alert! Jeff Tweedy has written numerous songs from the perspective of imperfect men at delicate stages of fragile relationships. But the man driving this Chevy has just abruptly and definitively said farewell with extreme prejudice.
An adrenaline buzzed sitrep from a bloody mess of a man who has just murdered an unnamed female. No excuses, no rationization, no actual remorse for the trail of gorey evidence from his sofa to the trunk of the car.he is driving in the aftermath of the bloodbath. So yeah, a few standard deviations from Wilco’s norm.

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Release Date
June 30, 2009
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