The Joke Explained letra

I never held your gaze
I never know my place
Oh, I stare at the eyes
Starin' at my face
It always ends in a tie
There is no needing the divine
I cry at the joke explained

Oh, but if I had known, if I had known
If I had known, I would've never believed

I never smoked my chains
Whoever measures the crest
Oh, they can have my broken chest
It's a staring contest
In a hall of mirrors
I sweat tears, but I don't ever cry

Oh, but if I had known, if I had known
If I had known, I would've never believed

I never knelt at a noose
My pair perished in the pews
I climbed back into the yoke
It always ends in a tie
There is no hitting the design
I cry at the joke explained

Oh, but if I had known, if I had known
If I had known, I would've never believed
I would've never believed
I would've never believed

Wilco - Letras

• (Was I) In Your Dreams
• A Lifetime To Find
• A Shot In The Arm
• Against The Law
• Airline To Heaven
• All Across The World
• All Lives, You Say?
• All You Fascists Are Bound To Lose
• Alone
• Ambulance
• An Empty Corner
• Another Man's Done Gone
• Any Major Dude Will Tell You
• Art Of Almost
• Ashes Of American Flags
• At Least That's What You Said
• At My Window Sad And Lonely
• Be Not So Fearful
• Before Us
• Bird Without A Tail / Base Of My Skull
• Birds And Ships
• Black Moon
• Black Wind Blowing
• Blasting Fonda
• Blood Of The Lamb
• Blue Eyed Soul
• Bob Dylan's 49th Beard
• Born Alone
• Box Full Of Letters
• Bright Leaves
• Bull Black Nova
• California Stars
• Camera
• Candyfloss
• Capitol City
• Cars can't escape
• Casino Queen
• Christ For President
• Citizens
• Cold Slope
• Common Sense
• Company In My Back
• Country Disappeared
• Country Song Upside-Down
• Cruel Country
• Cry All Day
• Darkness Is Cheap
• Dash 7
• Dawned On Me
• Deeper Down
• Dreamer In My Dreams
• Eisler On The Go
• Either Way
• Elt
• Everlasting Everything
• Everyone Hides
• Falling Apart (Right Now)
• Far Far Away
• Feed Of Man
• Forget The Flowers
• Glad It's Over
• Handshake Drugs
• Happiness
• Hate it Here
• Hearts Hard To Find
• Heavy Metal Drummer
• Hell Is Chrome
• Hesitating Beauty
• Hints
• Hold Me Anyway
• Hoodoo Voodoo
• Hot Rod Hotel
• Hotel Arizona
• How To Fight Loneliness
• Hummingbird
• I Am My Mother
• I Am Trying To Break Your Heart
• I Can't Stand It
• I Got You (At The End Of The Century)
• I Love My Label
• I Might
• I Must Be High
• I Thought I Held You
• I Was Born
• I'll fight
• I'm A Wheel
• I'm Always In Love
• I'm The Man Who Loves You
• If I Ever Was a Child
• Impossible Germany
• In A Future Age
• Ingrid Bergman
• It's Just That Simple
• Jesus, Etc
• Joe Dimaggio Done It Again
• Just A Kid
• Just Say Goodbye
• Kamera
• Kicking Television
• King Of You
• Kingpin
• Leave Me (Like You Found Me)
• Less Than You Think
• Let Me Come Home
• Let's Not Get Carried Away
• Locator
• Love Is Everywhere (Beware)
• Magazine Called Sunset
• Magnetized
• Many Worlds
• Meanest Man
• Message From Mid-bar
• Misunderstood
• Monday
• More
• More Like The Moon
• More...
• Muzzle Of Bees
• My Darling
• My Flying Saucer
• Mystery Binds
• No More Poetry
• Nope
• Normal American Kids
• Not for the Season
• Nothing Up My Sleeve
• Nothingsevergonnastandinmyway(Again)
• On And On And On
• One And A Half Stars
• One By One
• One Sunday Morning (Song for Jane Smiley's Boyfriend)
• One True Vine
• One Wing
• Open Mind
• Outtasite (Outta Mind)
• Panthers
• Passenger Side
• Pick Up The Change
• Pickled Ginger
• Pieholden Suite
• Please Be Patient With Me
• Please Be Wrong
• Please Tell My Brother
• Poor Places
• Pot Kettle Black
• Quarters
• Quiet Amplifier
• Radio Cure
• Radio King
• Random Name Generator
• Red-Eyed And Blue
• Remember The Mountain Bed
• Reservations
• Rhythm
• Rising Red Lung
• Sad Kind Of Way
• Say You Miss Me
• Secret Of The Sea
• Shake it Off
• She Came Along To Me
• She's a Jar
• Should've Been In Love
• Shouldn't Be Ashamed
• Shrug and Destroy
• Side With the Seeds
• Sky Blue Sky
• Solitaire
• Someday Some Morning Sometime
• Someday Soon
• Someone Else's Song
• Someone To Lose
• Sometimes It Happens
• Speak Into The Rose
• Spiders (Kidsmoke)
• Standing o
• Stetson Kennedy
• Story To Tell
• Summer Teeth
• Sunken Treasure
• Sunloathe
• Sunny Feeling
• Taste The Ceiling
• That's Not The Issue
• The Empty Condor
• The Good Part
• The High Heat
• The Joke Explained
• The Late Greats
• The Lonely 1
• The Plains
• The Thanks I Get
• The Universe
• The Unwelcome Guest
• The Weight (feat. Mavis Staples and Nick Lowe)
• Theologians
• Thirteen
• This Is New
• Tired Of Taking It Out On You
• Tonight's The Day
• Too Far Apart
• Unlikely Japan
• Venus Stopped the Train
• Via Chicago
• Walken
• Walt Whitman's Niece
• War On War
• Way Over Yonder In The Minor Key
• We Aren't the World (Safety Girl)
• We Were Lucky
• We're Just Friends
• What Light
• What's The World Got In Store
• When You Wake Up Feeling Old
• Where Do I Begin
• White Wooden Cross
• Whole Love
• Why Would You Wanna Live
• Wilco (the song)
• Wishful Thinking
• Won't Let You Down
• Woodgrain
• You And I
• You Are My Face
• You Never Know
• You Satellite