Wilco - Theologians Lyrics

🏆💎Excellent !!!💎🏆

elton john-esque piano intro

Tweedy should speak his mind more often. We can use his voice as much as possible these days

LYRICS:

Theologians
They don't know nothing
About my soul
About my soul

I'm an ocean
An abyss in motion
Slow motion
Slow motion

Inlitterati lumen fidei
God is with us everyday
That illiterate light
Is with us every night

Theologians
That don't know nothing
About my soul
Oh they don't know

They thin my heart with little things
And my life with change
Oh in so many ways
I find more missing every day

Theologians
I'm going away
Where you will look for me

Where I'm going you cannot come
No one's ever gonna take my life from me
I lay it down
A ghost is born
A ghost is born
A ghost is born

I'm an ocean
I'm all emotion
I'm a cherry ghost
Cherry ghost
Hey I'm a cherry ghost
A cherry ghost

What is a cherry ghost?

11 out of 10

This song sounds like it could be on Steely Dan's Pretzel Logic, similar tone and feel and good enough.

"We are not God. Period, so long as the world is to have any remotely acceptable content — and if not, let it remain unused for clarity's sake...Rather, religious arguments in favor of theism are still quite relevant in the field of philosophy, whether the kalam cosmological argument as reformulated by W.L. Craig, defended in dialogue with Quentin Smith, and recently defended powerfully by Mark Nowacki, the fine-tuning argument as elaborated by Robert Collins or Richard Swinburne and further defended against possible Humean objections by Collins, the modal ontological argument of Alvin Platinga; the argument from reason as defended by Victor Reppert and Angus Menuge; or any number of worthy contributions to the field. Powerful cases have been presented in book-length treatments of the matter, and for Peter Joseph or his supporters to quip blithely that we are God is quite frankly, an insult to the intellect and to responsible philosophy." - Shattering the Christ Myth, p. 334

this song gets me every time. god damn it.

To be absolutely correct, we are learning every day. I want to write an Eulogy like Ayn Duryan about my husband when we have a viking funeral fr him and spread his ashes where he anted them,into the bay back to the gulf then back and forth

makes me feel red shirted for doing the first grade twice.

Top 3 Wilco songs.

Hell Is Chrome   

A -Cherry- Ghost Is Born     what a record right?

Love it........just love it. ;)

Theologians oh well they dont know nothin about my soul, I'm a cherry ghost. (first time dying, sunshine?)

Just to be clear this song is about how people who believe in God don't know anything about other people's souls, just saying. Jeff Tweedy is super anti religious, this song is not about Jesus 😂

Good grief, they raised their sons Jewish since his wife is. Relax. He might be an atheist and an artist; and this album was produced at a certain time in his life and is amazing. But he's not anti-religious. He's not into anyone else's business. Duh.

+Eli Gaffron is that 63 on the jersey in your thumbnail? three 6 mafia...

Oh that must be why he is such a druggie.

Not only the people that believe in god, but these people TEACH about god. Totally correct but this point is overlooked in your argument (which I agree with) the tracing of someone who doesn’t understand a soul is a constant hurdle in this world, just as the re-writing of history in ones image. Imago de misunderstood, and that’s a Wilco pun, if you...can’t stand it;)

Jeff may be a female to male trans person. Which does not matter. As artisans create from the heart in order for others to "feel" once again. Much love to my fellow artisans ❤💜

theologians do not know Jesus and need to repent :(

+Mike Younis Way to go on completing missing the point. That takes a certain kind of skill, I guess.

+Nicholas Kelly 5+vh mdjg nxgvjcn da boj chal film jj mlbñL

Don't know nothing 'bout my soul

mr blue sky? ELO? maybe

hey, you have the greatest album cover for your thumb photo... the mats trash lp... the best album artwork, good pick!

@flagemdown66 Then you haven't seen mine...

+aplbomr79 i went to the show in NY it was a highlight of my life... legitamately.... Love the mats!! love this little mats fan section down too!

+whiter417 Tho the album is called trash, the band is quote opposite ;)

this and every song before it on a ghost is born >= awesome

This song inspired me to paint this :)
https://www.facebook.com/artistguerinwolf/photos/a.480621178628164.114771.480609625295986/806698329353779/?type=3&theater

seriously, we're not going to talk about the 90's x-men cartoon theme at 1:57? that's just a thing we're all going to ignore?

+Peter Parker I'm more concerned that the singer seems to kill himself if you listen to the lyrics at that point.

And a ghost is born!

Well, it's really close...

Joseph Corridon it’s a gnostic death

Joseph Corridon no he’s not.hes referencing Jesus.that is a verse in the Bible

Buy it too!

It is not pop. it is soul.

I want this song played loudly at my funeral.

a ghost is born a ghost is born

perfect pop ;)

they dont know nothing.... about my soul.. about my soul.

such a hard hitting line. I think it means something along the lines of dont let anyone tell you who you are, no matter how powerful they make themselves out to be.

Carson Lake "[people who study religion] don't know nothing about my soul." I feel like it's fairly direct.

2 guys havent ears...

No one is ever going to take my life from me. I lay it down, a ghost is born.

That's a fantastic idea

To me it is about the truth of everlasting life which can never be fulfilled by religious ideas, but is only limited by them; understood by no one except the self which is the I am which is the Life it self. Therefore in surrendering your life only will you fully realize it.

am i the only person who thinks this song may b about another person who is religiously lost and say that no one knows about his soul hes different and his difficulty with who he is drives him to the edge until finally he commits suicide and a ghost is born?

_ _ _ _ theologians. You can fill in the blank

@MissSexyMan this is a santana cover, so rob thomas had to sing it cuz of carlos's contract

@MissSexyMan Rob Thomas!? Are you kidding!? Jeffy Tweedy and every individual member of Wilco put Rob Thomas to shame in virtually every regard. Rob = douchebag. Wilco = genius.

wow didn't know rob thomas from santana sung this song

The more I listen to this song the more I think it's the pinnacle of human achievement. Every part, the buildup, the breakdown, the lyrics, the end... all of it are perfect.

one of their best

The best song from A Ghost is Born.

Thank you for this song. Next paycheck I am going to rebuy all my Wilco Albums because I gave them all away and the ones I didn't are scratched up and mostly on principal for this song being here when I wanted/needed it.

I'm a cherry ghost. haha

beautiful!