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

—  Conor Oberst

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

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American musician 1980

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