Conor Oberst: Making

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“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.”

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)

“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)

“Well is it your fear of being buried
that makes you so afraid to speak?”

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

“And I'm sorry about the phone call and needing you
Some decisions you don't make
I guess it's just like breathing or not wanting to
There are some things you can't fake”

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

“So hurry up and run to the one that you love.
And blind him with your kindness.
And he'll make war, oh war,
On who you were before.
And he'll claim all that has spoiled in your heart.”

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

“The sound of loneliness makes me happier”

Poison Oak
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)

“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”

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”

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