Radio Cure Guitar Tab

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot Tabs:

this is a great song. the only chord i'm not sure about is the F/F#. i don't know the
right one, but if anyone figures it out let me know. everything else is 99% accuarate.
you can play the G/A as a G major chord instead. most times that sounds better, but i
guess it depends on how much you've had to drink. after that, either way sounds good i
guess. anyway, have fun with it.
Radio Cure      - Wilco
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Chords: E  D  A  G  F# C#   Ebm   Bb  F/F#
Starts on   E
D                           A            E
Cheer up Honey I hope you can
D                   A
There is something wrong with me
E       D
My mind is filled with silvery stuff
A              D
Honey kisses clouds of  fluff
E                   D
Shoulders shrugging off.
Cheer up honey I hope you can
There is something wrong with me
My mind is filled with radio cures
Electronic surgical words/    A   G/A   F#  G
D       C#/D            A                    G                F#	G
Picking apples for the kings and queens of things I've never seen.
F#    F/F#          Ebm     Bb     B     D        F#     E(back to verse)
Oh, distance has no way of making love understandable.
D
Cheer up, honey, I hope you can
There is something wrong with me
My mind is filled with silvery stars
Honey, kisses, clouds of fog
Picking apples for the kings and queens of things I've never seen
Oh, distance has no way of making love understandable
Oh, distance has no way of making love understandable
Oh, distance has no way of making love understandable
Oh, distance has no way of making love understandable  E            D
A
Cheer up, honey I hope you can...

Source: http://www.guitarmasta.net/w/wilco/360683.html

Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques


No Picture Vinnie Rhythm Player	#1 by Vinnie Valium at Oct 2, 2007 at 11:41 AM EST
	"oh, distance has no way of making love understandable." i've never thought of this line as meaning they are together but live away from each other. it fits more to me as him meaning they are currently seperated; the whole "maybe we should be on a break" bit..possibly because of his mental state ("..there is something wrong with me.) regardless, this is one of my top five wilco songs.

No Picture Murders in the Average	#2 by Murders in the Rue Morgue at Oct 2, 2007 at 12:13 PM EST
	I think, basically, this song is about his way of using music to deal with things in his life. The song is called Radio Cure. You know, for anyone who has ever gotten off of a bad break-up, you tend to wanna listen to a lot of depressing songs that help ease you in and out of your moods. Well, that's what he does. His head is "full of silvery stars," which I think translates into the crazy things rushing about his head, that he hasn't quite figured out yet. He's probably just gotten off some breakup, and he's going through the phases, listening to whatever music helps him, and he realizes that breaking up really hasn't helped the original problem, which caused the breakup. "Cheer up," he says, "I hope you can. There is something wrong with me." Breaking up hasn't made him any different than he was and "distance has no way of making love understandable." So until he can grasp it, he'll just continue to play his music and stare long into the night.

No Picture jake Average	#3 by jake battkoo at Oct 3, 2007 at 2:39 PM EST
	Robert Frost wrote a poem about Apple Picking. His was about fast approaching death and what he regrets having done with his life. (And the last line has refrence to a woodchuck... ridiculous Mr. Frost.) Listening to Wilco is like looking at surreal paintings or reading James Joyce or something. I'm lovin' it.

No Picture Daniel Average	#4 by Daniel Johnson at Oct 5, 2007 at 12:12 PM EST
	This song seems like it refers to depression or another mental illness, you know, "cheer up honey I hope you can there is something wrong with me"

No Picture Ben Rhythm Player	#5 by Ben Formica at Oct 6, 2007 at 9:27 PM EST
	i liked it better what i thought he said "AH distance has no way! of makin' love! understandable" anyway, the song is so visceral. in a puppy dogs and clouds type of way. Love is great and wonderful and life would be completely purposeless without it, but also drives you to madness most times... Some people moreso than others, Tweedy most likely one of the privileged ones capable of the extremes of the deepest most honest and inescapable love for another person as there is in the human realm of emotion, and the deep despair that results from things outside the action messing it all up......

No Picture ian Average	#6 by ian mckinly at Oct 8, 2007 at 12:03 AM EST
	"distance has no way of making love understandable" i love that line. when people are in love and are far away from each other, a relationship gets so much harder and difficult and is never understandable. this is such a beautiful song.

No Picture Niko Average	#7 by Niko Booth at Oct 9, 2007 at 7:01 AM EST
	I think I agree most with MaxpowerSupreme on this one. The title and lyrics support a notion that whatever songs we listen to are our "radio cures", particularly the salient lines that get stuck in our heads. what is really pretty cool (almost ironic) about this song is that the singer hits you with such a line of his own, "distance has no way of making love understandable"--is the line that listeners connect to the most, possibly making it their own "radio cure".

No Picture Dan Average	#8 by Dan Johnson at Oct 9, 2007 at 12:37 PM EST
	"Radio Cure" is about someone who feels distanced from somebody he loves. He tries to get near this person, but they do not show any love back. They may be depressed, for which reason they try to heal their mind by listening to music, refered to as "electronic sergical words." When he sings "picking apples for the kings and queens of things I've never seen," he is expressing how he is making an effort to love this person, although he isn't receiving anything in return.

No Picture Aleksandar Average	#9 by Aleksandar Radošević at Oct 9, 2007 at 11:24 PM EST
	There is a common cliche (in the US, at least): "Distance has a way of making the heart grow fonder" or something to that effect. He's disputing this in these lyrics.

No Picture Trevor Average	#10 by Trevor fun with drugs at Oct 10, 2007 at 9:34 AM EST
	someone please tell me what they think this song is about, i love it but i cant really make much out of it besides some of the obvious. like about distance having no way of making love understandable. I dunno, maybe im looking to far into it. So yeah if u think u get it then please write something

No Picture Austin Wanna Be	#11 by Austin Skitowski at Oct 13, 2007 at 8:20 PM EST
	it means a lot reminds me of someone i love.

No Picture Jimmy "Hoffa" Average	#12 by Jimmy "Hoffa" at Oct 14, 2007 at 3:39 PM EST
	This song is Tweedy's response to the common practice of turning to music to help in times of need. Radio Cure, the title, and the line about 'my mind is filled with radio cure/electronic surgical words' both seem to refer to music as a medical cure. Distance has no way, however, could refer to two things. The distance between two lovers, that commonly kills relationships, or the distance between the artist and the listener of the song. I prefer the former, but knowing Tweedy's lyrics, it could be either or nothing at all.

No Picture Dylan Average	#13 by Dylan Donovan at Oct 14, 2007 at 8:55 PM EST
	Wilco has a lot of songs that touch upon the theme of ambitions, particularly those of success in the music world, conflicting with personal relationships. Much of the two-CD album "Being There" deals with this idea, for example. Radio Cure can easily be seen as also touching upon that theme.

No Picture SLIPKNOT FUCING Rhythm Player	#14 by SLIPKNOT FUCING RULES!!!! v at Oct 15, 2007 at 5:02 AM EST
	One of the best lyrically and orchastrated songs ive ever heard

No Picture Lead Player	#15 by Michael Leathers at Oct 15, 2007 at 3:20 PM EST
	to me this song is about someone i loved who was crazy. he made me completely miserable because he had all these weird things in his head and this song seems to me like what he would say to me, wanting me to understand that while he wanted me to be happy he was so distracted by the weird things in his head that he couldn't do anything to contribute to that.

No Picture austin Rhythm Player	#16 by austin ballard at Oct 17, 2007 at 12:22 AM EST
	just a lyrical note: it's not "all distance has no way" it's "distance has no way" (i just checked the cd booklet) i think the word being confused for 'all' is really 'oh', just a sound he has in there.

No Picture Dan Professional Badass	#17 by Dan Hudspith at Oct 18, 2007 at 1:02 PM EST
	I agree with MissEmily---I think the distance is space away from each other or maybe time passing. You think it will give you perspective, but it doesn't always (usually? . . . ever?) help.

No Picture brennan Average	#18 by brennan collins at Oct 19, 2007 at 12:53 AM EST
	I always thought he was saying "Picking apples for the kings and queens and thing I'LL NEVER SEE" which, to me, sounds so much more hopeless and depressing.