Wilco - Ashes Of American Flags lyrics

The cash machine is blue and green

For a hundred in twenties and a small service fee

I could spend three dollars and sixty-three cents

On diet Coca-Cola and unlit cigarettes

I wonder why we listen to poets when nobody gives a fuck

How hot and sorrowful, this machine begs for luck

All my lies are always wishes

I know I would die if I could come back new

We want a good life with a nose for things

The fresh wind and bright sky to endure my suffering

I'm a hole without a key if I break my tongue

Speaking of tomorrow, how will it ever come?

All my lies are always wishes

I know I would die if I could come back new

I'm down on my hands and knees every time a doorbell rings

I shake like a toothache, oh, when I hear myself sing

All my lies are only wishes

I know I would die if I could come back new

I would like to salute the ashes of American flags

And all the fallen leaves filling up shopping bags