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Fill up your mind with all it can know
Don't forget that your body will let it all go
Fill up your mind with all it can know
What would we be without wishful thinking
Chambers of chains
With red plastic mouths
The inside of outside
No one has found
How to unring the bell
It's just as well
The turntable sizzles
Casting the spells
The pressure devices
Hell in a nutshell
Is any song worth singing
If it doesn't help
Fill up your mind with all it can know
Don't forget that your body can let it all go
Fill up your mind with all it can know
'Cause what would love be without wishful thinking
Open your arms as far as they will go
We take off your dress
An embarrassing poem
Was written when I was alone
In love with you
I shook down those lines
To shine up the streets
I got up off my hands and knees
To thank my lucky stars that you're not me
What would we be without wishful thinking
What would we be without wishful thinking
What would we be without wishful thinking
Don't forget that your body will let it all go
Fill up your mind with all it can know
What would we be without wishful thinking
Chambers of chains
With red plastic mouths
The inside of outside
No one has found
How to unring the bell
It's just as well
The turntable sizzles
Casting the spells
The pressure devices
Hell in a nutshell
Is any song worth singing
If it doesn't help
Fill up your mind with all it can know
Don't forget that your body can let it all go
Fill up your mind with all it can know
'Cause what would love be without wishful thinking
Open your arms as far as they will go
We take off your dress
An embarrassing poem
Was written when I was alone
In love with you
I shook down those lines
To shine up the streets
I got up off my hands and knees
To thank my lucky stars that you're not me
What would we be without wishful thinking
What would we be without wishful thinking
What would we be without wishful thinking
Lyrics submitted by eastcidskl
Wishful Thinking Lyrics as written by Jeffrey Scot Tweedy Glenn Kotche
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Unison Rights S.L.
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this sneaky little diamond of a tune asks: 'what would love be without wishful thinking....' (fill up your mind with all it can know-don't forget that your body will let it all go')
then, from YHF: a desperate admission: 'oh my lies are always wishes, i know i would die if i could come back new'
i feel Jeff is always exploring the territory of how fleeting big love's moments are, how quickly we decay into our habits and vicissitudes....
savor the moment, because the polarities and randomness of life will make themselves known soon enough.
i mean , 'hell in a nutshell' and 'I got up off my hands and knees To thank my lucky stars that you're not me'
this is the pendulum swing of love. you gotta wish. this song approaches the gravity of 'ashes of american flags', with 'this machine begs for luck' is not the cash machine 'wishing'?
are not all of our lies in a way 'wishes' of a sort?
anyhow, these are my musings. i listen to tweedy with a really open heart and mind.
everyone has said some very cool stuff. i hope my perspective can add some meaning to the commentaries.
bless up eyzovblu