To shed my own personal light on this, I will give a breif interperatation:
"you're quite a quiet domino" - Naturally, we all know that dominoes are objects meant to fall in correspondence with eachother, one by one. So, Tweedy might be indicating that she (as with all other people) are meant to fall in a specific line, such as heartbreak. So he says that she is a "quiet domino" in that it is hard to tell the next time she is going to fall.
"bury me now" - This coincides with the idea of him being a depressed drunk. As with the past line about her being a quiet domino, he might be saying "what the hell, you should just bury me now" since if her fate is inevitable, so is his, so it seems to say "we might as well seperate and just skip to our deaths". Then again, contradicting this is the way Tweedy sings it, as if he is shrugging it off. So it might not be "I might as well die", but more of a sarcastic phrase of "I'm done now".
"take off your bandaid
'cause I don't believe in touchdowns" - These two seem to go hand-in-hand. Looking at this through a general male drunk viewpoint, a touchdown might be a quick and sweet sex session for a guy. You can just picture some ass talking to his friend like "Last night, she was crying, so I held her, and later man I made a touchdown. It was frickin' hot." So Tweedy here might be saying that she doesn't need to keep her guard up (protection, in other words. Because Band-Aids DO NOT rapair the wound, but rather, PROTECT it from infection) so he's telling her to take off her Band-Aid because he isn't gonna make a touchdown on her. Another piece suggesting the thought that their love is definitely over, because he doesn't really want her.
I love Tweedy's lyrics, because they're so different than what I consider "casual" lyrics to be. He just puts adjectives and nouns together that would never belong, and makes them work, because we get the feel of this song and what it is saying to us.
"I Am Trying to Break Your Heart" is a perfect example of a complete Wilco song.
To shed my own personal light on this, I will give a breif interperatation:
"you're quite a quiet domino" - Naturally, we all know that dominoes are objects meant to fall in correspondence with eachother, one by one. So, Tweedy might be indicating that she (as with all other people) are meant to fall in a specific line, such as heartbreak. So he says that she is a "quiet domino" in that it is hard to tell the next time she is going to fall.
"bury me now" - This coincides with the idea of him being a depressed drunk. As with the past line about her being a quiet domino, he might be saying "what the hell, you should just bury me now" since if her fate is inevitable, so is his, so it seems to say "we might as well seperate and just skip to our deaths". Then again, contradicting this is the way Tweedy sings it, as if he is shrugging it off. So it might not be "I might as well die", but more of a sarcastic phrase of "I'm done now".
"take off your bandaid 'cause I don't believe in touchdowns" - These two seem to go hand-in-hand. Looking at this through a general male drunk viewpoint, a touchdown might be a quick and sweet sex session for a guy. You can just picture some ass talking to his friend like "Last night, she was crying, so I held her, and later man I made a touchdown. It was frickin' hot." So Tweedy here might be saying that she doesn't need to keep her guard up (protection, in other words. Because Band-Aids DO NOT rapair the wound, but rather, PROTECT it from infection) so he's telling her to take off her Band-Aid because he isn't gonna make a touchdown on her. Another piece suggesting the thought that their love is definitely over, because he doesn't really want her.
I love Tweedy's lyrics, because they're so different than what I consider "casual" lyrics to be. He just puts adjectives and nouns together that would never belong, and makes them work, because we get the feel of this song and what it is saying to us.
"I Am Trying to Break Your Heart" is a perfect example of a complete Wilco song.