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Hell Is Chrome

Release date: 8th March 2005

From A Ghost Is Born
Track 2
4:34
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'Hell Is Chrome' by Wilco is a rock track from the album 'A Ghost Is Born' (2005). The lyrics cast the arrival of a devil who is not red, but metallic and gleaming, offering a lead into a place that feels meticulously ordered, welcoming, and strangely fear-free. There is a dreamlike sense of being guided, then received with “open arms”, amid air described as crisp and clean. The refrain of fearlessness, plus the precise imagery of a polished, towering environment, gives the song a cool, uncanny calm.

"Hell Is Chrome" is a track by Wilco, from the album A Ghost Is Born, released 8th March 2005. The track is 4:34 long. It's filed under Rock. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 3 articles about Wilco.

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Hell Is Chrome

When the devil came
He was not red
He was chrome, and he said

Come with me
You must go
So I went
Where everything was clean
So precise and towering

I was welcomed
With open arms
I received so much help in every way
I felt no fear
I felt no fear

The air was crisp
Like sunny late winter days
A springtime yawning high in the haze
And I felt like I belonged
Come with me

Come with me
Come with me
Come with me
Come with me
Come with me
Come with me
Come with me
Come with me

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8th March 2005
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  1. 1At Least That's What You Said
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