“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)

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American musician 1980

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