Remember The Mountain Bed
Wilco Lyrics

Do you still sing of the mountain bed we made of limbs and leaves?
Do you still remember the time we spent together lying on the bed we created using the branches and leaves?

Do you still sigh there near the sky where the holly berry bleeds?
Do you still feel the same emotions while remembering that place where we used to lie down under the sky and the holly berries flowed out their juices?

You laughed as I covered you over with leaves
You chuckled as I enveloped you with leaves.

Face, breast, hips, and thighs
Your face, breasts, hips, and thighs were also covered with leaves.

You smiled when I said the leaves were just the color of your eyes
You beamed when I compared the color of leaves with the color of your eyes.

Rosin smells and turpentine smells from eucalyptus and pine
The fragrance of pine and eucalyptus mingled with the rosin and turpentine smells.

Bitter tastes of twigs we chewed where tangled wood vines twine
We chewed the astringent taste of twigs where twisted wood vines intertwined.

Trees held us in on all four sides so thick we could not see
The trees surrounded us so densely that we could not see beyond them.

I could not see any wrong in you, and you saw none in me
I did not find any faults in you, and you didn't see any flaws in me either.

Your arm was brown against the ground, your cheeks part of the sky
Your arm rested on the ground's brownness, and your cheeks were a part of the sky's panorama.

Your fingers played with grassy moss, as limber you did lie
Your fingers toyed with the green moss, while you lay there so agilely.

Your stomach moved beneath your shirt and your knees were in the air
Your abdomen twitched under the shirt, and your knees stayed upward in the air.

Your feet played games with mountain roots as you lay thinking there
Your feet played with the mountains' roots as you thought lying there.

Below us the trees grew clumps of trees, raised families of trees, and they
Below us, the trees sprouted communities of trees and nurtured new generations of trees.

As proud as we tossed their heads in the wind and flung good seeds away
Just like we tossed our heads proudly in the wind, the trees did the same and dispersed the good seeds everywhere.

The sun was hot and the sun was bright down in the valley below
The sun scorching hot and showed its radiance in the valley below us.

Where people starved and hungry for life so empty come and go
Where the people starve and remain yearning for life, and many of them live out their empty existence.

There in the shade and hid from the sun we freed our minds and learned
In the shade, we unfurled our brain and absorbed knowledge away from the sun's glare.

Our greatest reason for being here, our bodies moved and burned
We gained enlightenment about our exquisiteness, and our bodies gyrated and sweated.

There on our mountain bed of leaves, we learned life's reason why
On our bed of leaves on the mountain, we understood the purpose of life.

The people laugh and love and dream, they fight, they hate to die
People laugh, love, and foster hopes while fighting their battles and dreading Death.

The smell of your hair I know is still there, if most of our leaves are blown
I believe the fragrance of your hair still lingers there, even though many leaves have fled the spot.

Our words still ring in the brush and the trees where singing seeds are sown
Our conversations are still echoing in the bushes and the trees where the melodious seeds are being planted.

Your shape and form are dim but plain, there on our mountain bed
Visually, the outline and structure of yours are a little hazy, but they are still visible there, on our bed of leaves on the mountain.

I see my life was brightest where you laughed and laid your head
In retrospect, my life was at its prime when you grinned and rested your head there.

I learned the reason why man must work and how to dream big dreams
I comprehended why men work and how to have ambitious reveries.

To conquer time and space and fight the rivers and the seas
To triumph time and space while fighting the battle against the mighty rivers and seas.

I stand here filled with my emptiness now and look at city and land
Now I stand here brimming with my emptiness and gaze at the city and farmland.

And I know why farms and cities are built by hot, warm, nervous hands
I understand the reason behind the construction of farms and cities using the warm and nervous hands of humans.

I crossed many states just to stand here now, my face all hot with tears
I travelled across many states to reach here, and now my face has become moist with tears.

I crossed city, and valley, desert, and stream, to bring my body here
Traversing cities, valleys, deserts, and rivers, I've arrived here to bring my body.

My history and future blaze bright in me, and all my joy and pain
My past and future are luminous within me, along with my grief and bliss.

Go through my head on our mountain bed where I smell your hair again.
Everything flies by my mind while I sit on our bed of leaves on the mountain and breathe in the aroma of your hair.

All this day long I linger here and on in through the night
I stay here all day and late into the night.

My greed's, desires, my cravings, hopes, my dreams inside me fight
My avarice, cravings, and aspirations keep fighting within me.

My loneliness healed, my emptiness filled, I walk above all pain
My sorrows have vanished, my emptiness has been filled, and now I am walking over all the agony.

Back to the breast of my woman and child to scatter my seeds again
And now back to the arms of my wife and child, to scatter my legacy once more.