She's A Jar (LP Version)

Wilco | Format: MP3 Download
From the Album Summerteeth

Product Details

• Original Release Date: March 8, 1999
• Release Date: March 8, 1999
• Label: Nonesuch
• Copyright: 1999 Reprise Records
• Duration: 4:42 minutes
• Genres:
• ASIN: B0012FDXD8
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #164,507 Paid in MP3 Songs (See Top 100 Paid in MP3 Songs)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Pure Poetry... Love this song., August 18, 2011

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Dabraat (Virginia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: She's A Jar (LP Version) (MP3 Download)

So many possible meanings wrapped in a beautiful, compelling, song, with a devastating ending.

She's a jar
With a heavy lid
My pop quiz kid
A sleepy kisser
With feelings hid
She begs me not to miss her

She says forever
To light a fuse
We could use
A hand full of wheel
And a day off
And a bruised road
However you might feel
Tonight is real

When I forget how to talk I sing
Won't you please
Bring that flash to shine
And turn my eyes red
Unless they close
When you click
And my face gets sick
Stuck
Like a question unposed

Just climb aboard
The tracks of a train's arm
In my fragile family tree
And watch me floating inches above
The people under me

Please beware the quiet front yard
I warned you
Before there were water skies
I warned you not to drive
Dry your eyes you poor devil

Are there really ones like these
The ones I dream
Float like leaves
And freeze to spread skeleton wings
I passed through before I knew you

I believe it's just because
Daddy's payday is not enough
Oh I believe it's all because
Daddy's payday is not enough

Just climb aboard
The tracks of a train's arm
In my fragile family tree
And watch me floating inches above
The people under me

She's a jar
With a heavy lid
My pop quiz kid
A sleepy kisser
A pretty war
My feelings hid
She begs me not to hit her.