“The sun came up with no conclusions
Flowers sleepin' in their beds
The city cemetary's hummin'
I'm wide awake, its mornin”

—  Conor Oberst

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

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American musician 1980

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