Jeffrey Lewis - Exactly What Nobody Wanted (Bad Wiring) lyrics

You were throwing off sparks of pure power
Sending signals from a mystery tower
You didn't bother making sure it
Would sink in it was a different way of
Workin' and thinkin'
Really wild and completely expressive
So creative and intense and obsessive
You were practically completely beyond it
And you were exactly just what nobody wanted

You were conscious and responsive and present
You weren't trying to
Make something unpleasant
You were just bouncing off of
Things that were trashy
And it was never very tricky or flashy
You had a vision that was clear and directed
And the way the words were all unexpected
You were unbelievable, and you were undaunted
And you were exactly just what nobody wanted!

But to me, it was so awesome
So awesome, so awesome
So awesome, so awesome, just awesome

It was like a focusing of
What had been brewing it did a thing that no
One else had been doing
You worked small to see what
Made this or that tick
Then you flipped it over
So it all seemed galactic
It was crazy, but you really believed it!
You gave it everything and lived
It and breathed it
You made a space where all
These good things collided
And it made approximately no one excited

It's hard to speak about
The stuff you invented
It was unique in how it all got presented
It hit the mark
And never stopped going forward
Out of a darkness
With no signs and with no words
It spoke a language that
Was instant and brutal
And it made all the art around it seem futile
You did it well, and you could even repeat it
And that was exactly just what nobody needed!

But to me, it was so awesome
So awesome, so awesome you were so awesome
So awesome, just awesome!

A long time waiting and leaving
And that's a good, weird faith to believe in
A mirror needs depth and an angle
Where the light waves wiggle and tangle
So if someone else had
All your same concentration
They still couldn't reach
The same destination

There's really something anywhere
You look closely
But a lot of it could come or go, mostly
But when something really cuts
Away the pretenses
When something really takes a
Swing for the fences
When something really knocks it
Out of the borders
And rearranges all the usual orders
That's exactly what the track you were on did
And that was exactly just what nobody wanted!

A berserk sea that flooded in and receded
You were so perfectly what nobody needed
You pushed as far as you
Could make an idea go
And it exactly made an impact of zero!
And basically, the public never responded
You were so amazingly what nobody wanted!
I held on tight to every scrap that I took in
But it's like it all happened
When nobody was looking!

But to me, it was so awesome
So awesome, so awesome you were so awesome
So awesome, just awesome!