That was really good. I just wish it was a little longer!

I caught that again too. I think it originally aired in 05'. Good stuff though, I just wish instead of the Bright Eyes for the second half, we got a full hour of Wilco.

I have Summerteeth and YHF. I need to get Being There next I suppose.

yes, you do.

*anticipates getting home to d/l*

yankee hotel foxtrot, summerteeth and mermaid avenue vol. 2 are on my mp3 player

i love how I'm Always In Love comes right after We're Just Friends

whatever you do just remember the mountain bed PB

listened to this song 50x on the last 2 days

makes me it's so beautiful

is it a cover?

unbelievable lyrics. seeing jeff do it solo acoustic from the 4th row was a personal highlight

"Remember The Mountain Bed"

Do you still sing of the mountain bed we made of limbs and leaves?
Do you still sigh there near the sky where the holly berry bleeds?
You laughed as I covered you over with leaves
Face, breast, hips, and thighs
You smiled when I said the leaves were just the color of your eyes

Rosin smells and turpentine smells from eucalyptus and pine
Bitter tastes of twigs we chewed where tangled wood vines twine
Trees held us in on all four sides so thick we could not see
I could not see any wrong in you, and you saw none in me

Your arm was brown against the ground, your cheeks part of the sky
Your fingers played with grassy moss, as limber you did lie
Your stomach moved beneath your shirt and your knees were in the air
Your feet played games with mountain roots as you lay thinking there

Below us the trees grew clumps of trees, raised families of trees, and they
As proud as we tossed their heads in the wind and flung good seeds away
The sun was hot and the sun was bright down in the valley below
Where people starved and hungry for life so empty come and go

There in the shade and hid from the sun we freed our minds and learned
Our greatest reason for being here, our bodies moved and burned
There on our mountain bed of leaves we learned life's reason why
The people laugh and love and dream, they fight, they hate to die

The smell of your hair I know is still there, if most of our leaves are blown
Our words still ring in the brush and the trees where singing seeds are sown
Your shape and form is dim but plain, there on our mountain bed
I see my life was brightest where you laughed and laid your head...

I learned the reason why man must work and how to dream big dreams
To conquer time and space and fight the rivers and the seas
I stand here filled with my emptiness now and look at city and land
And I know why farms and cities are built by hot, warm, nervous hands

I crossed many states just to stand here now, my face all hot with tears
I crossed city, and valley, desert, and stream, to bring my body here
My history and future blaze bright in me and all my joy and pain
Go through my head on our mountain bed where I smell your hair again.

All this day long I linger here and on in through the night
My greeds, desires, my cravings, hopes, my dreams inside me fight:
My loneliness healed, my emptiness filled, I walk above all pain
Back to the breast of my woman and child to scatter my seeds again

all of the mermaid ave songs are Woody Guthrie lyrics that he never set music to.

...so wilco and billy bragg did. i'm not sure how much input billy had on this one, sounds like jeff wrote the music and jay added some piano on that sweet super-old sounding piano.

how the fuck does he remember all those lyrics?!

i've wondered the same thing... but it is a story, so it's probably not too bad. i think i had the first 3 verses memorized pretty easily. plus when you play it a bunch of times, and are NOT drunk on wine in concert, that doesn't hurt either.

The same way Ed does with *insert any song here*.

oops, sorry!

which wilco song has the line "Yankee.Hotel.Foxtrot" buried on the song

reservations? or maybe i was dreaming

it's the outro to poor places. prolly the best song one there imo.

Yeah, it's 'Poor Places', one of my favorite Wilco songs.