Conor Oberst: Trending quotes

“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)

Tree , Dead

“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)

Love , People , Lovers , Singing

“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)

Flowers , Sun

“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)

“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)

Help

“I found a liquid cure
for my landlocked blues”

Conor Oberst

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

“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

“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

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

Conor Oberst

Lenders In The Temple
Conor Oberst (2008)

Love

“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