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Adelaide (Lyric) by wilco Iâm so tired of pretending
that everythingâs okay.
Maybe I could sleep through
Christmas again this year
and wake up on New Years Day.
Itâs all coming down now
that everythingâs okay.
Sometimes I go to sleep
in the snow with the hope
that Iâll wake up warm and safe.
Adelaide, Iâm coming home
and itâs been so long
since Iâve said a prayer
that I hope you can forgive what Iâve done.
Adelaide, Iâve got a bullet in my head
and my knees are weak.
Iâve taken everything I love
with a grain of salt
and spread it all through my wounds.
Iâm so tired of waking up
and thinking Iâm okay.
Maybe I could be better
if I slept through another
South Pacific dream.
Safely coming down now
and everythingâs okay.
I woke up in the snow
again with nothing left
to hold me in place.
Adelaide, Iâm coming home
and itâs been so long
since Iâve said a prayer
that I hope you can forgive what Iâve done.
Adelaide, Iâve got a picture in my head
and my will is weak.
Iâve taken everything she loved
with an endless weight
thatâs moved my wounds to scar.
Up the ladder:
I, The Lord
Down the ladder:
Reunion
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Posted: October 11, 2005 7:58 PM PDT; Last modified: October 11, 2005 7:58 PM PDTWeighted score: 5.166884 Overall Rank: 5016 Comments:
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12-Oct-05/6:12 AM
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"grain of salt and spread it through my wounds" that's the stuff !
It's kind of in limbo. Either focus more on the love story or the war story. The writing style comes off as sincere and that's a real good thing. Try to avoid rhyming th first verse and then not rhyming the others.
I don't think you're interpreting it as I meant it..but that's a good thing if there's different interpretations.
It still comes off as love between you and something (city or woman or whatever) and the bullet wounds and other more subtle things imply war even if it's some kind of metaphor. You humanized a city but left pretty much no clue to us geographically challenged that it was a city you were talking to.
Unless different interpretations is what your going for it's not necessarily a good thing. I still like its melodic qualities.
Lyrics are so hard to understand without the music. I'd say lose the "up" in line 5, but maybe some twang of string requires it. And Adelaide is such an old-time name that I'd expect a song about her to follow the old-time patterns. Oh well, maybe I just don't get it.
It's a city in Australia.
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