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Conor Mullen Oberst is an American singer-songwriter best known for his work in Bright Eyes. He has also played in several other bands, including Desaparecidos, The Faint , Commander Venus, Park Ave., Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band, Monsters of Folk, and Better Oblivion Community Center. Oberst was named the Best Songwriter of 2008 by Rolling Stone magazine. Wikipedia  

✵ 15. February 1980
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Conor Oberst Quotes

“So you say there are spaces, opening wide?
Oh believe me, there's day longer than nights.
And you could be happy, if only you'd try.
But you don't try. No you don't try.”

Conor Oberst

Insound Tour Support No.12 (2000)

Night , Happiness

“For a sunrise or a sunset, you're manic or you’re depressed.
Will you ever feel ok?”

Conor Oberst

Sunrise, Sunset
Fevers and Mirrors (2000)

Feeling

“I find that life is easier when it is just a blur
With no details to confuse who or what or where I was
So when the ending comes the full regret will be obscure”

Conor Oberst

The Difference In The Shades
Letting Off the Happiness (1998)

Life

“Well let the poets cry themselves to sleep
And all their tearful words will turn back into steam”

Conor Oberst

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

Tear , Sleep , Cry

“And I sing and sing of awful things
The pleasure that my sadness brings.”

Conor Oberst

Haligh, Haligh, A Lie, Haligh
Fevers and Mirrors (2000)

Pleasure , Sadness , Singing

“I hear if you make friends with Jesus Christ, you will get right up from that chalk outline. And then you'll get dolled up, and you'll dress in white all to take your place in his chorus line. And then in you'll come with those marching drums in a saintly compromise. No more whiskey slurs, no more blonde-haired girls for your whole eternal life. And you'll do the dance that was choreographed at the very dawn of time. Singing "I told you son, the day would come you would die, you'd die you'd die you'd die you'd die."”

Conor Oberst

Arc Of Time
Digital Ash in a Digital Urn (2005)

Life , Girl , Singing , Time

“Sometimes I worry that I've lost the plot
My twitching muscles tease my flippant thoughts
I never really dreamed of heaven much
Until we put him in the ground.”

Conor Oberst

Digital Ash in a Digital Urn (2005)

Dreams

“The hook is in deep boys,
there is no more time.
So you can struggle in the water
and be too stubborn to die,
or you could just let go and be lifted to the sky.”

Conor Oberst

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

Boy , Water , Time

“And me I'm in my bedroom drawing in my notebook
Because my hand thinks I'm an artist
But my heart knows I'm a poet
It's just words they mean so little to me.”

Conor Oberst

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

Thinking , Heart , Drawing

“If I die tonight, then I guess I die tonight
Let me go on.”

Conor Oberst

Falling Out Of Love At This Volume
A Collection of Songs Written and Recorded 1995-1997 (1998)

“My Brother went to college
To become a doctor
And if he studies hard enough
He'll end up just like papa, who hates his life.”

Conor Oberst

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

Life , Hate , Study

“I’ve seen a child, he's caught in the sad trap of gravity.
He falls from the lowest branch of the apple tree
and lands in the grass and weeps for his dignity.
Next time he will not aim so high.
Yeah, next time, neither will I.”

Conor Oberst

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

Sadness , Tree , Grass , Time

“I'd rather be working for a paycheck, than waiting to win the lottery.
Besides, maybe this time it's different, I mean,
I really think you like me.”

Conor Oberst

First Day of my Life
I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning (2005)

Thinking , Time , Waiting

“i keep drinking the ink from my pen
and i'm balancing history books up on my head
but it all boils down to one quotable phrase
if you love something give it away”

Conor Oberst

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

Love , Books , History , Drink

“My head's a carousel of pictures and
The spinning never stops.”

Conor Oberst

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

“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

“so immagine what you want and hold onto that thought
cause thats as close as it will ever come
and believe you're were you're are
keep acting out the part
but at the end of the day
the trees all get wheeled away
and you'll be standing alone in a blank, blank space”

Conor Oberst

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

Tree , Parting

“Yeah, I was a postcard, I was a record
I was a camera until I went blind”

Conor Oberst

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

“I know you have a heavy heart, I can feel it when we kiss
So many men stronger than me
Have thrown their backs out trying to lift it
But me I'm not a gamble
You can count on me to split
The love I sell you in the evening by the morning won't exist.”

Conor Oberst

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

Love , Men , Feeling , Kiss

“If you wanna see the future,
Go stare into a cloud.”

Conor Oberst

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

Future

“The trees get wheeled away”

Conor Oberst

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

Tree