“The hook is in deep boys,
there is no more time.
So you can struggle in the water
and be too stubborn to die,
or you could just let go and be lifted to the sky.”

—  Conor Oberst

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

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