| 1 | A13, Trunk Road to the Sea | specific or obscure places |
| 2 | Accident Waiting to Happen | insulting songs |
| 3 | Between the Wars | left wing politics |
| 4 | Bread and Circuses (with Natalie Merchant) | bread, cake, pastry & biscuits |
| 5 | Brickbat | getting older |
| 6 | Christ for President (with Wilco) | Jesus |
| 7 | England, Half English (with the Blokes) | roots |
| 8 | God’s Footballer | football |
| 9 | Greetings to the New Brunette | brown |
| 10 | Handyman Blues | decor |
| 11 | Hot Rod Hotel (with Wilco) | hotels |
| 12 | I Guess I Planted (with Wilco) | positive songs |
| 13 | Ingrid Bergman (with Wilco) | famous people |
| 14 | It Says Here | freedom of expression |
| 15 | Levi Stubbs’ Tears | music as nutrition |
| 16 | The Man in the Iron Mask | masks |
| 17 | Must I Paint You a Picture | painting & drawing |
| 18 | Never Buy the Sun | reading |
| 19 | No One Knows Nothing Anymore | knowledge |
| 20 | The Price of Oil | scandal |
| 21 | Remember the Mountain Bed (with Wilco) | mountains |
| 22 | Rotting on Remand | Liverpool & Merseyside |
| 23 | The Saturday Boy | unrequited love |
| 24 | St. Swithin’s Day | famous last words |
| 25 | Tank Park Salute | fathers |
| 26 | There Is Power in a Union | unity |
| 27 | To Have and to Have Not | social mobility |
| 28 | Waiting for the Great Leap Forward | waiting |
| 29 | The World Turned Upside Down | revolution |