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“The animals laugh from the dark of the wilderness.”

Conor Oberst

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

Animals

“So I want to get myself attached to something bolted down,
So that these winds of circumstance won't keep blowing me around.
From when I land to when I leave
there is enough time to sleep and sing.
I keep running around, when all I want is to lay motionless.”

Conor Oberst

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

Sleep , Singing , Time

“You'll be free child once you have died
from the shackles of language and measurable time”

Conor Oberst

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

Time

“The drunk kids, the catholics
They’re all about the same
They’re waiting for something
Hoping to be saved”

Conor Oberst

Drunk Kid Catholic
Noise Floor (Rarities: 1998-2005) (2006)

Hope , Waiting

“So don't be fooled, so don't get lied to
Love was always cruel
And don't act strange, don't be a stranger
It happened to me, now it's happening to you
But if you'd take that train underwater
Then we could talk it through”

Conor Oberst

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

Love , Fools , Training

“I swear that I'm dying
slowly but it's happening,
and if the perfect spring is waiting somewhere…
just take me there.”

Conor Oberst

If Winter Ends
Letting Off the Happiness (1998)

Spring , Waiting , Perfection

“If I could act like
This was my real life,
And not some cage where I've been placed,
Well then, I could tell you
The truth like I used to
And not be afraid of sounding fake.”

Conor Oberst

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

Life , Truth

“So I go back and forth forever
All my thoughts they come in pairs
Oh I will, I won't, I doubt, I don't,
I'm not surprised but I never feel quite prepared”

Conor Oberst

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

Feeling

“But, I was as helpless as a chess piece
when I was lifted up by someone's hand
And delivered from the corner
my enemies had got me in
But in all of my salvation
I still felt imprisoned inside that holding cell
that is myself”

Conor Oberst

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

“The Bible's blind.
The Torah's deaf.
The Qur'an is mute.
If you burned them all together you’d get close to the truth.”

Conor Oberst

Four Winds
Cassadaga (2007)

Truth

“Everything that happens is supposed to be
And it's all pre-determined,
can't change your destiny
Guess I'll just keep moving,
someday maybe I'll get to where I'm going”

Conor Oberst

Nothing Gets Crossed Out
Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground (2002)

Change

“So you can try and live in darkness
but you will never shake the light.
It will greet you every morning and make you more aware with its absence at night”

Conor Oberst

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

Light , Night

“Everything must belong somewhere.
I know that now, that's why I'm staying here.”

Conor Oberst

I Must Belong Somewhere
Cassadaga (2007)

“It's exploding bags, aerosol cans
Southbound buses, Peter Pan
They left it up to us again
I thought you knew the drill
It's kill or be killed.”

Conor Oberst

Clairaudients(Kill or Be Killed)
Cassadaga (2007)

“It was a small mistake
Sometimes that is all it takes.”

Conor Oberst

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

“I wanna be a shower in the morning
That wakes you up and makes you clean
I know I'm just the weather against your window
As you sleep through a winter's dream”

Conor Oberst

Ship in a Bottle
Digital Ash in a Digital Urn (2005)

Dreams , Sleep , Winter , Weather

“The world's become a little too mean.”

Conor Oberst

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

For Wife , World

“Well, ABC, NBC, CBS: Bullshit.
They give us fact or fiction?
I guess an even split.”

Conor Oberst

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

“I drug your ghost across the country, and we plotted out my death.
Every city and memory we whispered "Here is where you rest."
Well I was determined in Chicago but I dug my teeth into my knees
And I settled for a telephone, sang into your machine:
"You are my sunshine, my only sunshine."”

Conor Oberst

The Calendar Hung Itself
Fevers and Mirrors (2000)

Death , Memory , Country