I want to like love songs.  I do.  But most of what passes for a love song is enmeshed co-dependent disfunction.  I know too much for my heart to swoon to that ear candy.  But, every once in a while there comes a rare a love song that knows the cost and complexity of loving.  I mean, when have you ever heard of a “differentiated love song”?  I could give a little pitter patter for that.  And really, whose up for that challenge more than Wilco?  Their new release, Wilco (the album) is front to back pretty stellar and it’s got this little song called “You and I” that is able to somehow accept the inevitable distance between two people who love each other… and not just tolerate it, but celebrate it and protect the mystery that it holds.  Where most love songs want to consume every detail of the other, this love song abstains.  And, come on, there’s something sexy about that.  Jeff Tweedy, if my heart did not belong to another, you would have it.

You and I, we might be strangers
However close we get sometimes
It’s like we never met

But you and I, I think we can take it
All the good with the bad
Make something that no one else has but

You and I, you and I

Me and you, what can we do
When the words we use sometimes
Are misconstrued

Well, I won’t guess what’s coming next
I can’t ever tell you
The deepest well i’ve ever fallen into

Oh, I don’t wanna know
Oh, I don’t wanna know
Oh, I don’t need to know
Everything about you

Oh, I don’t wanna know
And you don’t need to know
That much about me