I’m Sorry

Jesse Welles

September 18, 2024

Fans have heard Jesse Welles play I’m Sorry live 15 times, in 2025. It turns up about once every 8.2 shows. It took 5 months after it came out to reach a setlist, passing 6 shows first. At its hottest it showed up at 5 shows in a row, in March 2025.

It has been played at 15 different venues in 15 cities. Every tour appearance came on Fear Is The Mind Killer. It leans toward spring: 53% of its plays fall from March through May.

It is often paired with Domestic Error: the two were played back to back in 10 of its 15 performances. It most often follows Bugs (9 times).

It debuted live 5 days before its release on Middle.

Lyrics

Go ye down into that land
You'll wake more than the dogs my friend
You'll wake until you've woke and then
You'll wanna go to sleep again, I'm sorry
Walter Whitman, Waldo seeking
Confucian analectic reading
Good men tore down cut and bleeding
All things no one needed, I'm sorry

I'm sorry, I'm sorry
I feel so goddamn bad
I'm sorry, I'm sorry
I'm the worse thing ya ever had
I'm sorry, I'm sorry
I feel so goddamn bad
I'm sorry, I'm sorry
I'm the worse thing ya ever had

The multitudes contained in you
Are surely walking two by two
Into an ark, an unfortunate zoo
If the flood comes soon, and I'm sorry
They greet me cosmopolitanly
A synthesis of many litanies
Ya always knew I was a sucker for them things
I must learn my manners and my Chinese please

I'm sorry, I'm sorry
I feel so goddamn bad
I'm sorry, I'm sorry
I'm the worse thing ya ever had
I'm sorry, I'm sorry
I feel so goddamn bad
I'm sorry, I'm sorry
I'm the worse thing ya ever had

You deal in slaves, become withdrawn
And cease to keep on keepin' on
Cut the tree that grew the fruit
If I was you honey, I'd salt them roots

And I'm sorry, I'm sorry
I feel so goddamn bad
I'm sorry, I'm sorry
I'm the worse thing ya ever had
I'm sorry, I'm sorry
I feel so goddamn bad
I'm sorry, I'm sorry
I'm the worse thing ya ever had

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I can know, I can know, I can know by the way that I know it
Some people don't know (Some people don't know)
Some people don't get it (Some people don't get it)”
— I Can Tell by the Way That I Know by Welles

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