Conor Oberst: Doing

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“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!”

Insound Tour Support No.12 (2000)

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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?”

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

“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”

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

“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.”

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

“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."”

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