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Wilco - "Sunken Treasure" (taken from Being There)

"Music is my savior / I was maimed by rock and roll"

It starts out innocently enough, all gently strummed acoustic guitar and a little faint and non-threatening piano. Jeff Tweedy starts singing about what could be any calm night on any calm suburban street. But then, without losing a step, cracks in his painting start to appear - "I am so out of tune... with you". Tweedy draws out the pause before those last two words, not wanting to admit exactly what it is that has him feeling so off from the world around him. He's ready to give up and pack it all in, ditching his boat on the shore for someone else more fit for it's use. You can't help but feel for this guy and whatever it was that twisted him up so badly. And all this is before the music implodes on itself about four minutes in, the previously calm piano taking a menacing turn that recalls the fiercest storm ravaging the stillest water. But even though he was just about ready to toss it all away, Tweedy steels himself and sits through the storm as it lashes out. He makes it through to the other side, a little worse for it, but alive. Maimed, but saved. The waters calm again, but Tweedy himself churns them up again for one final squall, shaking his scarred, defiant fist at the world he just doesn't understand and the sunken treasure he'll never find.