“So I wait for the day
when I'll hear the key
as it turns in the lock
And the guard will say to me,
"Oh my patient prisoner
you waited for this day and finally,
you are free!
You are free!
You are free!"”

—  Conor Oberst

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

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