Gosh. This song cuts straight through me and lifts me up at the same time, more than any other Wilco song.
Rarely can we can pin down the meaning of a song, its more of how it resounds within us, deep in our gut.
Radio Cure, to me, is about pain and separation within in a relationship. The "honey kisses, clouds of fog (other sites and my ears hear fluff?)" reminds me of the beginning of a relationship, you're mind gets taken over, your head is filled "with silvery stars". "distance has no way of making love understandable", whether this distance is figurative or literal, distance makes a relationship confusing and each person begins to see it differently, they begin to change and reflect. Even in the beginning of the song, before Tweedy begins to sing, you can feel this distance, you feel as if you're in space. Once the silvery stars go away, "my mind is filled with radio cures, electronic surgical words". He's uses music to soothe him, to heal the pain he's feeling in this separation, the electronic surgical words cut into him and and to heal him, he's using music to cure him. But even the music holds distance, because its electronic and coming from some other person you will probably never meet.
Gosh. This song cuts straight through me and lifts me up at the same time, more than any other Wilco song. Rarely can we can pin down the meaning of a song, its more of how it resounds within us, deep in our gut. Radio Cure, to me, is about pain and separation within in a relationship. The "honey kisses, clouds of fog (other sites and my ears hear fluff?)" reminds me of the beginning of a relationship, you're mind gets taken over, your head is filled "with silvery stars". "distance has no way of making love understandable", whether this distance is figurative or literal, distance makes a relationship confusing and each person begins to see it differently, they begin to change and reflect. Even in the beginning of the song, before Tweedy begins to sing, you can feel this distance, you feel as if you're in space. Once the silvery stars go away, "my mind is filled with radio cures, electronic surgical words". He's uses music to soothe him, to heal the pain he's feeling in this separation, the electronic surgical words cut into him and and to heal him, he's using music to cure him. But even the music holds distance, because its electronic and coming from some other person you will probably never meet.