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The way things go, you get so low
Struggle to find your skin
Well hey ho, look out below
Your prayers will never be answered again
Phones still ring and singers sing
Speakers are speaking in code
What now, well anyhow
Our prayers will never be answered again
You know it's all beginning
To feel like it's ending
No love's as random as God's love
I can't stand it, I can't stand it
The way things get, you get so high
Funny how we make new friends
Well hey ho, I gotta go
My prayers will never be answered again
You know it's all beginning
To feel like it's ending
No love's as random as God's love
I can't stand it, I can't stand it
Speakers singing, speakers speaking
Speaking in code
Speakers singing, speakers speaking
Speaking in code
You know it's all beginning
To feel like pretending
No love's as random as my love
I can't stand it, I can't stand it
Your prayers will never be answered again
Your prayers will never be answered again
Your prayers will never be answered again
Your prayers will never be answered again
| fatcatjb (Sunny Sacramento) | Posted: May 16, 2013 - 12:37 not my favorite Wilco song...that guitar bit gets stuck in my head and I can't chase it out |
| SlinkyJ (NJ) | Posted: Jul 31, 2012 - 08:07 Just saw them at Brewery Ommegang in Cooperstown NY — great outdoor show, great beer, great music, great time! |
| coding_to_music (Beantown) | Posted: Jul 06, 2012 - 11:31 peter_james_bond wrote: Most bands can only dream about writing and performing songs that are this good. A solid 10! Winner of the award for "Best use of church gong chimes" - Wilco ! |
| Biscobret (Vashon, WA) | Posted: Jun 04, 2012 - 17:09 A lessor Wilco song is better than most — a good Wilco song is on another level. Hail Tweedy. |
| jhorton | Posted: Jun 04, 2012 - 17:07 Sounds like Cake except that it rhymes. Blech! |
| steelinox51 (Concord, Calif.USA) | Posted: Jan 29, 2012 - 21:42 Good band, good tune. |
| KevinM (Long Beach, Ca) | Posted: Nov 27, 2011 - 10:14 I thought I had this CD (I did not). I just bought it |
| cohifi (Denver) | Posted: Oct 26, 2011 - 19:25 Don't tell anyone they're good |
| helgigermany (Germany) | Posted: Apr 20, 2011 - 14:09 Nice! |
| peter_james_bond (West Of The Burg) | Posted: Feb 16, 2011 - 17:11 Most bands can only dream about writing and performing songs that are this good. A solid 10! |
| jesspra (County of Kings, New York) | Posted: Jan 09, 2011 - 17:01 No loves as randon as god's love, I can't stand it.  |
| Jack_Jefferson (Columbus, OH) | Posted: Sep 04, 2010 - 19:27 Summer Teeth Lager |
| madhoop (Carlsbad, CA) | Posted: Aug 10, 2010 - 19:38 This was the cd my friend gave me to become familiar with WILCO in 2003...Played it til the sun came up and then went through their whole catalogue...now my favorite band of the last 20 years...Tweedy is in a class alone. |
| peacockangel (Phoenix) | Posted: Apr 30, 2010 - 09:49 sorry ~ had to |
| peacockangel (Phoenix) | Posted: Apr 30, 2010 - 09:49 The way things go You get so low Struggle to find your skin Hey ho Look out below Your prayers will never be answered again Phones still ring And singers sing Speakers are speaking in code What now Well anyhow Our prayers will never be answered again You know it's all beginning (It's all beginning) To feel like It's ending (Feels like It's ending) No loves as random As God's love I can't stand it I can't stand it The way things get You get so high Funny how we make new friends Oh hey ho I gotta go My prayers will never be answered again You know It's all beginning (it's all beginning) To feel like It's ending (Feels like It's ending) No loves as random As God's love I can't stand it I can't stand it Speakers speaking Speakers speaking Speaking in code Speakers speaking Speakers speaking Speaking in code You know It's all beginning (it's all beginning) To feel like pretending (To feel like pretending) No loves as random As my love I can't stand it I can't stand it Your prayers will never be answered again Your prayers will never be answered again Your prayers will never be answered again Your prayers will never be answered again |
| sirdroseph (Outer Mongolia) | Posted: Mar 29, 2010 - 18:10 Ahhhh, one the good Wilco songs!  |
| cohifi (Denver) | Posted: Mar 29, 2010 - 18:08 peter_james_bond wrote: I can stand this song ...if fact I love it!!  Another classic! |
| alanthecowboy (Lakefield) | Posted: Jan 25, 2010 - 17:04 robco1 wrote: I can't recall having seen a single video on MTV any time in the last 15 years. Now its "Jackass/RealFakeWorldTV." Amen. We canceled our sat subscription partly because of that. Muchmusic has gone the same way; not much left out there for a music lover. |
| ronniegirl (Middle of New Jersey) | Posted: Oct 23, 2009 - 11:08 The baseline makes me think of Savoy Brown. |
| ick (S.E. La Jolla) | Posted: Aug 28, 2009 - 06:39 "No love's as random as God's love; I can't stand it... I can't stand it!" Amen brother! |
| Smoove_D (Milwaukee) | Posted: Aug 21, 2009 - 09:09 hippiechick wrote: Prolly my favorite Wilco album, though I have them all. You're my kinda hippie. |
| iscoot4peace | Posted: Aug 21, 2009 - 09:08 Happy RP Friday! TGIRPF!!! |
| robco1 (Chicago, IL) | Posted: Jul 27, 2009 - 17:13 TJOpootertoot wrote: You left out the part where, having demanded a single, Warner absolutely buried it. Do you recall seeing the video on MTV? I can't recall having seen a single video on MTV any time in the last 15 years. Now its "Jackass/RealFakeWorldTV." |
| robco1 (Chicago, IL) | Posted: Jul 27, 2009 - 17:07 alanthecowboy wrote: I'm beginning to feel that every pop song needs tubular bells in it... That's how I feel about the Mellotron... |
| alanthecowboy (Lakefield) | Posted: Jul 20, 2009 - 18:27 I'm beginning to feel that every pop song needs tubular bells in it... |
| peter_james_bond (Lunenburg, NS) | Posted: Apr 23, 2009 - 11:36 I can stand this song ...if fact I love it!! |
| davin (Victoria, British Columbia) | Posted: Apr 16, 2009 - 14:20 As dull as Jim Lehrer on the Colbert Report. |
| hippiechick (Heaven, a place where nothing ever happens) | Posted: Apr 16, 2009 - 14:19 Prolly my favorite Wilco album, though I have them all. |
| softjeans (Upper Ojai, CA) | Posted: Jun 04, 2008 - 18:14 QualityPie wrote: That's truer than you might think. When Wilco submitted Summerteeth to Warner Bros., "Can't Stand It" wasn't on the album; the album was otherwise as released, with "She's A Jar" batting leadoff and all else following. The company rejected it, saying it needed a grab-you pop song, something that could be released as a single (they felt it had no singles). Wilco whipped up "Can't Stand It" out of nothing, pronto, on demand. The company approved, the album got released, and when the whole stupid dance happened all over again with the next album, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, Wilco bought out their contract and left Warner. Great pop history lesson -- appreciate it. |
| Mindscrape (Boulder, CO) | Posted: Oct 28, 2007 - 15:12 qosforever wrote: This song remind me of "All is a game" from Nada Surf.
Yeah, the guitar riff before he says, "Can't stand it," is similar. |
| TJOpootertoot (Toronto) | Posted: Sep 27, 2007 - 09:05 QualityPie wrote: That's truer than you might think. When Wilco submitted Summerteeth to Warner Bros., "Can't Stand It" wasn't on the album; the album was otherwise as released, with "She's A Jar" batting leadoff and all else following. The company rejected it, saying it needed a grab-you pop song, something that could be released as a single (they felt it had no singles). Wilco whipped up "Can't Stand It" out of nothing, pronto, on demand. The company approved, the album got released, and when the whole stupid dance happened all over again with the next album, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, Wilco bought out their contract and left Warner. You left out the part where, having demanded a single, Warner absolutely buried it. Do you recall seeing the videon on MTV? Me neither. We can all be thankful for the great li'l pop song Wilco produced out of nothing but it's also a a fascinating insight into the industry - and, as you say, what ended up happening with Wilco's next album. |
| Misterfixit (Nashville) | Posted: May 24, 2007 - 13:25 QualityPie wrote: That's truer than you might think. When Wilco submitted Summerteeth to Warner Bros., "Can't Stand It" wasn't on the album; the album was otherwise as released, with "She's A Jar" batting leadoff and all else following. The company rejected it, saying it needed a grab-you pop song, something that could be released as a single (they felt it had no singles). Wilco whipped up "Can't Stand It" out of nothing, pronto, on demand. The company approved, the album got released, and when the whole stupid dance happened all over again with the next album, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, Wilco bought out their contract and left Warner. Wilco knows how to work the suits .... give them what the suits think they want, make it a hit and laugh all the way to the bank. Wilco is very fresh, very dedicated, very important and very good ... |
| QualityPie (Rose City Til I Die) | Posted: Mar 22, 2007 - 16:46 redeyespy wrote: Easily the most pop song on this record, and a great opener.
That's truer than you might think. When Wilco submitted Summerteeth to Warner Bros., "Can't Stand It" wasn't on the album; the album was otherwise as released, with "She's A Jar" batting leadoff and all else following. The company rejected it, saying it needed a grab-you pop song, something that could be released as a single (they felt it had no singles). Wilco whipped up "Can't Stand It" out of nothing, pronto, on demand. The company approved, the album got released, and when the whole stupid dance happened all over again with the next album, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, Wilco bought out their contract and left Warner. |
| qosforever (Madrid) | Posted: Mar 07, 2007 - 01:08 This song remind me of "All is a game" from Nada Surf. |
| wally42 (Between a Rock and a Hard Place) | Posted: Feb 19, 2007 - 09:45 Simply put: one the best contemporary American Rock bands... period... smart, fresh, innovative, It really doesn't get much better. |
| fredriley (Nottingham, UK) | Posted: Dec 22, 2006 - 11:29 Yep, aptly named song - does what it says on the tin. Nice instrumentals, shame about the voice... :( Wilco and out. |
| RobK (Leucadia, CA) | Posted: Oct 10, 2006 - 10:52 I have not been able to become a fan of Wilco despite many attempts, but I really, really like this song (and a couple others off this album). |
| fureanbode (hungary) | Posted: Jul 14, 2006 - 14:11 Dammit, I love this... |
| chinchita (another side of paradise) | Posted: Jun 29, 2006 - 22:21 Does anyone here the beginnings of "You're so vain" in the chorus? |
| RichardPrins | Posted: May 02, 2006 - 13:22 eelsy too... |
| rKokon (Colesville, MD) | Posted: Apr 03, 2006 - 09:00 coentje wrote: Yoohoo, I have the honours to be the first bore! I really don't see what is so wonderful about this. Pretty dull stuff.
Just piggybacking to recommend that for some red-blooded U.S. of A. fare, you should seek out the album "From Hell to Breakfast, a Taste of Sugar Hill's Texas Singer-Songwriters." Some truly amazing tuba and banjo playing, but especially the little-used tuba. Or is it a bass horn? Some poignant lyrics, great ballads, inventive tunes, and lots of change of pace. I recommend that everyone own this album and send Sugar Hill a clear message! The catalog review: From Townes Van Zandt, generally revered as THE Texan music poet, to some of Austin's best recent live acts, The Bad Livers and the Gourds, this compilation covers all the bases of the Texas singer-songwriter tradition. The renaissance man Terry Allen, the witty Austin Lounge Lizards, the current dean of Texas songwriters--Guy Clark . . . this compilation is the perfect introduction to the wealth of great Texas-style music on Sugar Hill Records. Fifteen tracks, a truly TEXAS-sized helping of good music, are on this sampler. With Sugar Hill's incomparable stable of Texas artists, this is one of the best Texas music compilations available anywhere. Listen to clips here: http://www.sugarhillrecords.com/catalog/pagemaker.cgi?3942 I hope everyone enjoys! |
| redeyespy (Sunny, FL) | Posted: Apr 03, 2006 - 08:58 kazuma wrote: No love's as random
As God's love Man, that's brutal. Yes, it is. Been there. And back. Saw a local band last Fri. do a cover of "Misunderstood." Did it proud. |
| freeone1 (few want to be here...) | Posted: Feb 03, 2006 - 12:04 coding_to_music wrote: Their semi-happy phase?
My thought's exactaly.... |
| Dylan76 (Minneapolis, MN) | Posted: Feb 03, 2006 - 12:03  
These guys just do it for me. |
| kazuma (Austin, TX) | Posted: Jan 19, 2006 - 20:42 No love's as random As God's love Man, that's brutal. |
| coding_to_music (Beantown) | Posted: Jan 05, 2006 - 07:25 Their semi-happy phase? |
| Mark1970 (Between the dim and the dark) | Posted: Jan 05, 2006 - 07:18 Not a big fan of this band, but I REALLY like this song! |
| Hempeltons (One step better than I used to be) | Posted: Aug 11, 2005 - 11:51 This CD is one of those rare discs that, when inserted into my player, lives there for days and days and days. I just love it. Gimme this and The Jayhawks Hollywood Town Hall, Greatful Dead American Beauty the new Scissor Sisters albums and I could drive from here (Chicago) to L.A. and back and never be happier. |
| coentje (Rotterdam or anywhere...) | Posted: Aug 11, 2005 - 11:48 Yoohoo, I have the honours to be the first bore! I really don't see what is so wonderful about this. Pretty dull stuff. |
| ANNE_MARIE (my own little three ring circus) | Posted: Jun 13, 2005 - 11:30 these guys are true artists. they continue to evolve and grow both as musicians and as writers. i love their original alt-folk/country sound as well as the insightful and almost poppy approach on the newer CDs. i guess the common thread may be the emotional power of each work. i love Wilco's music and it's great to hear them here.....thanks R&B! 
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