Conor Oberst: Trending quotes (page 2)

“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

“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)

Love , Books , World , Reading

“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

“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)

Love , Hurt

“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