Appreciate "Sky Blue Sky".
...The song.
This album as a whole contains Tweedy's finest song-writing, and the title track in particular just strikes a chord with me. It's seriously been helping me through the toughest spot in my life, along with the other songs of this album, and has been a sort of soundtrack to my life recently. It's simply beautiful:
Oh, the band marched on in formation
The brass was phasing tunes I couldn’t place
Windows open and raining in
Maroon, yellow, blue, gold and gray
The drunks were ricocheting
The old buildings downtown
Empty so long ago
Windows broken and dreaming
So happy to leave what was my home
With a sky blue sky
This rotten time
Wouldn’t seem so bad to me now
Oh, I didn’t die
I should be satisfied
I survived
That's good enough for now
With a sky blue sky
This rotten time
Wouldn’t seem so bad to me now
Oh, if I didn’t die
I should be satisfied
I survived
That's good enough for now