Conor Oberst quotes - page 2

I wanna be your happiness. I wanna be your common sense pain. (Conor Oberst)
Well morning came, and it dressed the sky in a lovely yellow gown. Shopping malls are opening in that narrow hallway of downtown, filled with people who are shopping for their lovers and their friends, singing "I won't ever be lonely again. View quote
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You could be happy, the minute you try. Why won't you try? Oh won't you try? View quote
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There was this book I read and loved, The story of a ship Who sailed around the world and found That nothing else exists Beyond its own two sails And wooden shell And what is held within. All else is sure to pass. We clutch and grasp And debate what's truly permanent. View quote
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And in the morning when the sun rise. Look in the water, see the blue sky. As if heaven has been laid there at our feet. View quote
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For a song I was bought Now I lie when I talk With a careful eye on the cue card. Onto a stage I was pushed, With my sorrow well rehearsed. So give me all your pity and your money, now (all of it). View quote
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The sound of loneliness makes me happier. View quote
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And the sad act like lepers They stick to the shadows They long to ring bells of warning To tell of their coming So that the pure can shut their doors. View quote
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And I sing and sing of awful things The pleasure that my sadness brings. View quote
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I'd rather be working for a paycheck, than waiting to win the lottery. Besides, maybe this time it's different, I mean, I really think you like me. View quote
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The drunk kids, the catholics They're all about the same They're waiting for something Hoping to be saved. (Conor Oberst)
The Bible's blind. The Torah's deaf. The Qur'an is mute. If you burned them all together you'd get close to the truth. View quote
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It's exploding bags, aerosol cans Southbound buses, Peter Pan They left it up to us again I thought you knew the drill It's kill or be killed. View quote
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I swear that I'm dying slowly but it's happening, and if the perfect spring is waiting somewhere... just take me there. View quote
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In a coma, you don't dream, you just hope that someone sits with you. View quote
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Everything that happens is supposed to be And it's all pre-determined, can't change your destiny Guess I'll just keep moving, someday maybe I'll get to where I'm going. View quote
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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!" View quote
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I want to be the surgeon who cuts you open Who fixes all of life's mistakes I want to be the house that you were raised in The only place where you feel safe. View quote
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There's a cat in the window, of the house of my lover. Well she sleeps there alone now, or perhaps with another. Oh I try no to think about that, I try not to think at all! View quote
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And you speak of a fever, that burns you inside, as you explain to your mother, how you've wanted to die. So she kisses your fingers, and says "My darling, but why? When there is so much more. There is so much more." View quote
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So you think I need some discipline, well, I had my share. I have been sent to my room. I've been sat in a chair. I held my tongue. I didn't plug my ears. No, I got a good talking to. And now I don't know why, but I still try to smile when they talk at me like I'm just a child. Well, I'm not a child. No, I am much younger than that. And now I have read some books and have grown quite brave. If only I could just speak up I think I would say that there is no truth. There is only you and what you make the truth. (Conor Oberst)
The sun came up with no conclusions Flowers sleepin' in their beds The city cemetary's hummin' I'm wide awake, its mornin' View quote
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And I never thought this life was possible,You're the yellow bird that I've been waiting for. View quote
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I'm sorry about the phone call; and waking you. I know that it is late, But thank you for talking, because I needed to. Some things just can't wait. View quote
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And it's too hard to focus through all this doubt I keep making this to-do list but nothing gets crossed out Working on the record seems pointless now When the world ends who's gonna hear it? View quote
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