Conor Oberst: Well

“Well morning came, and it dressed the sky in a lovely yellow gown.
Shopping malls are opening in that narrow hallway of downtown,
filled with people who are shopping for their lovers and their friends,
singing "I won't ever be lonely again"”

Conor Oberst

I Won't Ever be Happy Again
Insound Tour Support No.12 (2000)

Love , People , Lovers , Singing

“so believe you're who you are
and stay in character
but at the end of the play the audience walks away
and ill be shivering cold on a well lit stage”

Conor Oberst

The trees get wheeled away
Noise Floor (Rarities: 1998-2005) (2006)

“Well, I stood dropping a coin into the pit of a well.
And I would throw my whole billfold if I thought it would help.”

Conor Oberst

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

Help

“If I loved you, well that's my fault”

Conor Oberst

Lenders In The Temple
Conor Oberst (2008)

Love

“We're all too busy working, entertaining ourselves
With forty hours, television and prescription pills
Well, I take two a day to help my brain behave
It never does, but who's to say? At least my doctor gets paid.”

Conor Oberst

Loose Leaves
There Is No Beginning to the Story (2003)

Business , Help

“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

“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

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

Conor Oberst

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

Fear

“It's not a movie,
no private screening
This method acting,
well, I call that living”

Conor Oberst

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

“For a song I was bought
Now I lie when I talk
With a careful eye on the cue card.
Onto a stage I was pushed,
With my sorrow well rehearsed.
So give me all your pity and your money, now (all of it).”

Conor Oberst

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

Money , Lie

“In polaroids you were dressed in women's clothes
Were you made ashamed,
why'd you lock them in a drawer?
Well, I don't think that I ever loved you more”

Conor Oberst

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

Love , Women , Thinking , Clothes

“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

“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

“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