Wilco (The Song) 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
[Chorus]
Wilco
Wilco
Wilco will love you, baby
[Verse 2]
Are times getting tough?
Are the roads you travel rough?
Have you had enough of the old?
Tired of being exposed to the cold?
The stare of your stereo
Put on your headphones before you explode
Oh, oh, oh, oh
[Chorus]
Wilco
Wilco
Wilco will love you, baby
There's so many wars that just can't be won
Even before the battle's begun
This is an aural arms open wide
A sonic shoulder for you to cry on
[Chorus]
Wilco
Wilco will love you, baby
[Verse 3]
Is someone twisting a knife in your back?
Are you being attacked?
Oh this is a fact that you need to know
Oh
[Chorus]
Wilco
Wilco
Wilco
Wilco will love you, baby
About
Feeling sad? Put on a Wilco record.
That’s the sentiment expressed in “Wilco (The Song)” from Wilco (The Album) by — you’ve probably guessed by now — Wilco.
Here, Tweedy and company posit themselves as “a sonic shoulder for you to cry on.”
Q&A
Find answers to frequently asked questions about the song and explore its deeper meaning
In a 2009 interview, Jeff Tweedy explained that this song was intended as a tongue-in-cheek “infomercial” for Wilco:
It was sort of a joke, but I wouldn’t have thought of singing that if it wasn’t something I felt – and not necessarily about Wilco records obviously – about my experience with other peoples’ records and the consolation I’ve been able to find in art and music. I just think you don’t see an infomercial for things that are really sustaining like that very often, so I thought it would be funny to have an infomercial.
- 1.Wilco (The Song)
- 2.Deeper Down
- 3.One Wing
- 5.You and I
- 8.Solitaire
- 9.I’ll Fight
- 10.Sonny Feeling
- 12.Dark Neon
