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“Well morning came, and it dressed the sky in a lovely yellow gown.
Shopping malls are opening in that narrow hallway of downtown,
filled with people who are shopping for their lovers and their friends,
singing "I won't ever be lonely again"”

Conor Oberst

I Won't Ever be Happy Again
Insound Tour Support No.12 (2000)

“And there's kids playing guns in the streets
And one's pointing his tree branch at me
So I put my hands up I say
"Enough is enough,
If you walk away I walk away."”

Conor Oberst

And he shot me dead.
I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning (2005)

“I found a liquid cure
for my landlocked blues”

Conor Oberst

I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning (2005)

“Well, I stood dropping a coin into the pit of a well.
And I would throw my whole billfold if I thought it would help.”

Conor Oberst

Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground (2002)

“The sun came up with no conclusions
Flowers sleepin' in their beds
The city cemetary's hummin'
I'm wide awake, its mornin”

Conor Oberst

Road To Joy
I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning (2005)

“so believe you're who you are
and stay in character
but at the end of the play the audience walks away
and ill be shivering cold on a well lit stage”

Conor Oberst

The trees get wheeled away
Noise Floor (Rarities: 1998-2005) (2006)

Conor Oberst Quotes about love

“In polaroids you were dressed in women's clothes
Were you made ashamed,
why'd you lock them in a drawer?
Well, I don't think that I ever loved you more”

Conor Oberst

I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning (2005)

“So hurry up and run to the one that you love.
And blind him with your kindness.
And he'll make war, oh war,
On who you were before.
And he'll claim all that has spoiled in your heart.”

Conor Oberst

Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground (2002)

“If I loved you, well that's my fault”

Conor Oberst

Lenders In The Temple
Conor Oberst (2008)

“Love's an excuse to get hurt and to hurt.
Do you like to hurt?
I do, I do
then hurt me.”

Conor Oberst

Lover I Don't Have to Love
Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground (2002)

“But where was it when I first heard that sweet sound of humility?
It came to my ears in the goddamn loveliest melody!
How grateful I was, then, to be part of the mystery,
To love, and to be loved!
Let’s just hope that is enough.”

Conor Oberst

Let's Not Shit Ourselves (To Love and to Be Loved)
Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground (2002)

“There was this book I read and loved,
The story of a ship
Who sailed around the world and found
That nothing else exists
Beyond its own two sails
And wooden shell
And what is held within.
All else is sure to pass.
We clutch and grasp
And debate what's truly permanent.”

Conor Oberst

Oh, You Are the Roots That Sleep Beneath My Feet and Hold the Earth in Place
Don't Be Frightened of Turning the Page (2001)

Conor Oberst: Trending quotes

“There is no Hell when you die
so don't look so worried”

Conor Oberst

Light Pollution
Digital Ash in a Digital Urn (2005)

Hell

“And I never thought this life was possible, You're the yellow bird that I've been waiting for.”

Conor Oberst

I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning (2005)

Life , Bird , Waiting

“The squatters made a mural of a Mexican girl
With fifteen cans of spray paint and a chemical swirl
She's standing in the ashes at the end of the world
Four winds blowing through her hair.”

Conor Oberst

Cassadaga (2007)

World , Girl , Painting

Conor Oberst Quotes

“In a coma, you don't dream,
you just hope that someone sits with you.”

Conor Oberst

Padraic My Prince
Letting Off the Happiness (1998)

Dreams , Hope

“It is clear to see that it is not them but me, who had lost my self-identity. As I hide behind these books I read, while scribbling my poetry, like art could save a wretch like me, with some ideal ideology that no one can hope to achieve. And I am never real; it is just a sketch of me. And everything I have made is trite and cheap and a waste of paint, of tape, of time”

Conor Oberst

Waste of Paint
Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground (2002)

Books , Hope , Art , Time

“I'm sorry about the phone call; and waking you.
I know that it is late,
But thank you for talking, because I needed to.
Some things just can't wait.”

Conor Oberst

Happy Birthday To Me (Feb 15)
Noise Floor (Rarities: 1998-2005) (2006)

Waiting

“You’ve been a father to me.
Your 1960’s speak.
Gives me comatose joy like re-run TV.
While the mountainside was shining.
Wild colors of my destiny”

Conor Oberst

Cape Cañaveral
Conor Oberst (2008)

Color , Joy

“Don't be so amazing or I'll miss you too much.”

Conor Oberst

Lime Tree
Cassadaga (2007)

“We're all too busy working, entertaining ourselves
With forty hours, television and prescription pills
Well, I take two a day to help my brain behave
It never does, but who's to say? At least my doctor gets paid.”

Conor Oberst

Loose Leaves
There Is No Beginning to the Story (2003)

Business , Help

“But you should never be embarrassed by your trouble with living
Cause it's the ones with the sorest throats Laura,
who have done the most singing.”

Conor Oberst

Laura Laurent
Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground (2002)

Singing

“My parents ask if I'm alright; I say "I've just been staying up too late.
I need to sleep" I need to do something!
To get this awful weight up off my chest,
keep her pretty ghost from chasing me!”

Conor Oberst

Insound Tour Support No.12 (2000)

Parent , Sleep

“Little soldier, little insect
You know war it has no heart
It will kill you in the sunshine
Or happily in the the dark
Where kindness is a card game
Or a bent up cigarette
In the trenches, in the hard rain
With a bullet and a bet.”

Conor Oberst

No One Would Riot for Less
Cassadaga (2007)

War , Game , Heart

“But greed is a bottomless pit
And our freedom's a joke we're just taking a piss
And the whole world must watch the sad comic display
If you're still free start runnin' away
'cause we're comin' for ya!”

Conor Oberst

I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning (2005)

World , Sadness , Freedom

“we made love on the living room floor
with the noise in the background of a televised war
and in that defeaning pleasure i thought i heard someone say
if we walk away they'll walk away”

Conor Oberst

landlocked blues
I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning (2005)

Love , War , Pleasure

“I want to be the surgeon who cuts you open
Who fixes all of life's mistakes
I want to be the house that you were raised in
The only place where you feel safe.”

Conor Oberst

Digital Ash in a Digital Urn (2005)

Life , Feeling , Housing

“On a detox loft through a Glendale Park over sidewalk chalk
Someone wrote in red, "start over."”

Conor Oberst

Cleanse Song
Cassadaga (2007)

“You took off your clothes and left on the light,
You stood there so brave, you used to be shy,
Each feature improved, each movement refined,
And eyes like a showroom.”

Conor Oberst

Take it Easy (Love Nothing)
Digital Ash in a Digital Urn (2005)

Light , Clothes

“I think it is more like a ghost
that has been following us both.
Something vague that we're not seeing,
something more like a feeling.”

Conor Oberst

Something Vague
Fevers and Mirrors (2000)

Feeling , Thinking

“I dreamt this ship was sinkin' there was people screaming all around
And I awoke to my alarm clock it was a pop song it was playin' loud”

Conor Oberst

I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning (2005)

People

“If the world could remain within a frame
Like a painting on a wall,
Then I think we would see the beauty, then
We would stand staring in awe
At our still lives posed
Like a bowl of oranges,
Like a story told
By the fault lines and the soil.”

Conor Oberst

Bowl of Oranges
Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground (2002)

World , Beauty , Thinking , Painting

“You could be happy, the minute you try.
Why won't you try? Oh won't you try?”

Conor Oberst

The Joy in Forgetting - The Joy in Acceptance
Insound Tour Support No.12 (2000)

Happiness

“Now I'm hunched over a typewriter
I guess you call that paintin' in a cave
And there's a word I can't remember
and a feeling I cannot escape”

Conor Oberst

I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning (2005)

Feeling

“I never thought of running
My feet just led the way”

Conor Oberst

If The Brakeman turns my way
Cassadaga (2007)

Way

“Ambition, I’ve found, can lead only to failure. I do not read the reviews. No, I am not singing for you.”

Conor Oberst

Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground (2002)

Failure , Singing , Reading

“There's a cat in the window, of the house of my lover.
Well she sleeps there alone now, or perhaps with another.
Oh I try no to think about that, I try not to think at all!”

Conor Oberst

Insound Tour Support No.12 (2000)

Cats , Lovers , Thinking , Sleep

“And you speak of a fever, that burns you inside,
as you explain to your mother, how you've wanted to die.
So she kisses your fingers, and says "My darling, but why?
When there is so much more. There is so much more."”

Conor Oberst

Insound Tour Support No.12 (2000)

Kiss

“I started to sink like the moon tends to do if you stare at it too long
Then you blink and it's gone”

Conor Oberst

The Awful Sweetness Of Escaping Sweat
A Collection of Songs Written and Recorded 1995-1997 (1998)

“I sing and drink and sleep on floors
And try hard not to be annoyed
By all these people worrying about me.
So when I'm suffering through some awful drive,
You occasionally cross my mind.
It's my hidden hope that you are still among them.
Well, are you?”

Conor Oberst

Oh, You Are the Roots That Sleep Beneath My Feet and Hold the Earth in Place
Don't Be Frightened of Turning the Page (2001)

People , Hope , Drink , Sleep

“So you think I need some discipline, well, I had my share. I have been sent to my room. I've been sat in a chair. I held my tongue. I didn't plug my ears. No, I got a good talking to. And now I don't know why, but I still try to smile when they talk at me like I'm just a child. Well, I'm not a child. No, I am much younger than that. And now I have read some books and have grown quite brave. If only I could just speak up I think I would say that there is no truth. There is only you and what you make the truth.”

Conor Oberst

Don't Know When But A Day is Gonna Come
Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground (2002)

Truth , Books , Smile , Thinking

“So I will find my fears and face them
or I will cower like a dog
I will kick and scream or kneel and plead
I'll fight like hell to hide that I've given up”

Conor Oberst

Another Travelin' Song
I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning (2005)

Fear , Dogs , Hell , Fight

“Because the truth is that gossip
is as good as gospel in this town.
You can save face but
you won't ever save your soul.
And that's a fact.”

Conor Oberst

Make War
Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground (2002)

Truth , Soul

“There is nothing as lucky, as easy, or free”

Conor Oberst

Easy/Lucky/Free
Digital Ash in a Digital Urn (2005)

“And it's too hard to focus through all this doubt
I keep making this to-do list but nothing gets crossed out
Working on the record seems pointless now
When the world ends who's gonna hear it?”

Conor Oberst

Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground (2002)

World

“Well is it your fear of being buried
that makes you so afraid to speak?”

Conor Oberst

Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground (2002)

Fear

“It's not a movie,
no private screening
This method acting,
well, I call that living”

Conor Oberst

Method Acting
Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground (2002)

“As they take eye for an eye until no one can see,
we must stumble blindly forward, repeating history.”

Conor Oberst

Let's Not Shit Ourselves
Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground (2002)

History

“You mean nothing to no one but that's nobody's fault.”

Conor Oberst

Soul Singer in a Session Band
Cassadaga (2007)

“a good woman will pick you apart
a box full of suggestions for your possible heart
and you may be offended. and you may be afraid
but don't walk away, don't walk away”

Conor Oberst

landlocked blues
I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning (2005)

Heart , Box

“And in the morning when the sun rise.
Look in the water, see the blue sky.
As if heaven has been laid there at our feet.”

Conor Oberst

Sausalito
Conor Oberst (2008)

Water , Sun

“And me I'm in the bathroom
crying out my eyelids because it's hard to be a man
when you're scared, just like a little kid.”

Conor Oberst

Saturday as Usual
A Collection of Songs Written and Recorded 1995-1997 (1998)

Cry

“Honesty" "Accuracy" is just "Popular Opinion.”

Conor Oberst

Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground (2002)

“He once cut one of my nightmares out of paper.
I thought it was beautiful, I put it on a record cover.”

Conor Oberst

Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground (2002)

Beauty

“And each new act of war is tonight's entertainment.
We're still the pawns in their game.”

Conor Oberst

Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground (2002)

War , Game

“And I'm sorry about the phone call and needing you
Some decisions you don't make
I guess it's just like breathing or not wanting to
There are some things you can't fake”

Conor Oberst

Noise Floor (Rarities: 1998-2005) (2006)

Decision

“For a song I was bought
Now I lie when I talk
With a careful eye on the cue card.
Onto a stage I was pushed,
With my sorrow well rehearsed.
So give me all your pity and your money, now (all of it).”

Conor Oberst

False Advertising
Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground (2002)

Money , Lie

“So I wait for the day
when I'll hear the key
as it turns in the lock
And the guard will say to me,
"Oh my patient prisoner
you waited for this day and finally,
you are free!
You are free!
You are free!"”

Conor Oberst

From A Balance Beam
Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground (2002)

Waiting

“I guess the best that I can do now
is to pretend that I've done nothing wrong
and to dream about a train
that's gonna take me back where I belong”

Conor Oberst

I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning (2005)

Dreams , Training

“If you walk away I'll walk away
first tell me which road you will take
I don't want to risk our paths crossing someday
so you walk that way I'll walk this way”

Conor Oberst

I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning (2005)

Way

“The sound of loneliness makes me happier”

Conor Oberst

Poison Oak
I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning (2005)

Loneliness

“I tried to pass for nothing
But my dreams gave me away”

Conor Oberst

If The Brakeman turns my way
Cassadaga (2007)

Dreams

“And the sad act like lepers
They stick to the shadows
They long to ring bells of warning
To tell of their coming
So that the pure can shut their doors.”

Conor Oberst

Arienette
Fevers and Mirrors (2000)

Sadness

“Cause a costume can be comfortable
It can make you feel more beautiful
It can even make you look like someone else
But it's still you, so there's nothing you can do
Like a bad habit, the one you couldn't kick, there it always is
And it's nothing that no doctor's gonna fix.”

Conor Oberst

We Are Free Men
There Is No Beginning to the Story (2003)

Beauty , Feeling

“I had a brother once, he drowned in a bathtub,
before he'd ever learned how to talk.
And I don't know what his name was
but my mother does,
I heard her say it once, she said,
"Padraic, my prince, I have all but died from the sheer weight of my shame:
you cried but no-one came."”

Conor Oberst

Padraic My Prince
Letting Off the Happiness (1998)

Learning

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