Musical Worldview: Wilco, "White Wooden Cross"
“Tell me no lies
Tell me no lies
Is it stranger to live?
Is it stranger to die?
What would I do?
What would I do?
If a white wooden cross meant that I'd lost you”
Musical Worldview: Wilco, "Before Us"
“I remember when wars would end
Remember when wars would end?
Now when something's dead
Now when something's dead
We try to kill it again.”
Musical Worldview: Colin Hay, "Beautiful World"
“All around is anger, automatic guns
Death in large numbers, no respect for woman, or our little ones
I tried talking to Jesus, but he just put me on hold
Said he'd been swamped by calls this week
And He could not shake his cold
And still this emptiness persists
Perhaps this is as good as it gets
When you've given up the drink and those nasty cigarettes
Now I leave the party early at least with no regrets
I watch the sun as it comes up I watch it as it sets
Yeah this is as good as it gets
My my my, It's a beautiful world”
Musical Worldview: Sammy Brue, "I See, I Hear"
“You can take your mask off, I’m not a crowd”
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Musical Worldview: Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros, "Bhindi Bhagee"
Musical Worldview: Patty Griffin, "When It Don't Come Easy"
“I don't know nothing except change will come
Year after year what we do is undone
Time keeps moving from a crawl to a run
I wonder if we're gonna ever get home
You're out there walking down a highway
And all of the signs got blown away
Sometimes you wonder if you're walking in the wrong direction
But if you break down
I'll drive out and find you
If you forget my love
I'll try to remind you
And stay by you when it don't come easy
So many things that I had before
That don't matter to me now
Tonight I cry for the love that I've lost
And the love I've never found
When the last bird falls
And the last siren sounds
Someone will say what's been said before
Its only love we were looking for”
Musical Worldview (Instrumental Edition): Dirty Three, "Hope"
Wisdom found in lyrics, instrumental edition with Dirty Three. “Hope.”
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Musical Worldview: Brian Eno and David Byrne, "Everything That Happens Will Happen Today"
“Everything that happens
will happen today
and nothing has changed,
but nothing’s the same”
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Musical Worldview: One Eleven Heavy, "Geneva"
“There’s a time and place
For every kind of face
But times and places change”
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Musical Worldview: Joe Pug, "Hymn 101"
“The more I buy
The more I'm bought
And the more I'm bought
The less I cost”
Musical Worldview: Glen Phillips, "Thank You"
“You gave me life
Thank you, thank you
Your love is everywhere
Your love is everywhere
Open me, open me”
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Musical Worldview: Sammy Brue, "Lay Me Down"
“I did what I could
Until I couldn’t anymore
When I fell flat
I fell flat on the floor
You gave what you had
Until you couldn’t anymore
I think that’s the reason most people are poor
So lay me down
Don’t let me free
Because when all went to Hell
You depended on me
And I failed”
Musical Worldview: Ben Howard, "Keep Your Head Up"
“keep your head up, keep your heart strong
No, no, no, no, keep your mind set, keep your hair long
Oh my, my darlin', keep your head up, keep your heart strong
Na, oh, no, no, keep your mind set in your ways
Keep your heart strong”
Musical Worldview: Grateful Dead, "New Speedway Boogie"
“One way or another, one way or another,
One way or another, this darkness got to give.
One way or another, one way or another,
One way or another, this darkness got to give.
One way or another, one way or another,
One way or another, this darkness got to give.”
Musical Worldview: Matthew E. White, "Brazos"
“Stand beside me, baby, won't you hear the angels sing?
Child, won't you hear the angels sing?
Baby, won't you hear the angels sing?
Jesus Christ is our Lord
Jesus Christ, he is your friend”
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Musical Worldview: Grateful Dead, "Truckin'"
“Sometimes the light's all shinin' on me,
Other times I can barely see.
Lately it occurs to me what a long, strange trip it's been.”
Musical Worldview (Instrumental Edition): Circles Around The Sun, "Hallucinate A Solution"
Wisdom from lyrics. Instrumental edition.
The title for one of the pieces is “Hallucinate A Solution,” and that was something that I heard Phil say one night. We were playing at Terrapin [Crossroads, with Phil Lesh & Friends], and one of the band members asked him how we were going to make a certain transition in the set we were about to play because Phil had an elaborate transition he wanted to make between songs. He said, “I’m not really sure. Why don’t we just hallucinate a solution as we’re playing?”
It’s the quote about the song that led me to include it in the Musical Worldview Project, though I do love the song.
Musical Worldview: True Love Will Find You in the End
Sad news today about Daniel Johnston.
Here’s Wilco covering “True Love Will Find You in the End” at KEXP.
“True love will find you in the end
This is a promise with a catch
Only if you're looking can it find you
'Cause true love is searching too”
Musical Worldview: Hiss Golden Messenger, "When the Wall Comes Down"
“Whatcha gonna do
When the shackles fall?
When the shackles fall?
What you oughta do is melt them down
Melt them down
Turn them into tools and make a garden
On the prison grounds
Turn your chains to roses, child
Tear it down
Tear it down
Step back, Jack, from the darkness”
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Musical Worldview: Tom Waits, "Hold On"
Today’s installment of the Musical Worldview series is inspired by this Facebook post from my friend Justin McRoberts, whose new book project we featured here.
“Oh, you got to hold on, hold on
You gotta hold on
Take my hand, I'm standing right here, you gotta hold on”