75 quotes
You mean nothing to no one but that's nobody's fault.
In a coma, you don't dream,
you just hope that someone sits with you.
Letting Off the Happiness (1998)
My head's a carousel of pictures and
The spinning never stops.
Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground (2002)
As they take eye for an eye until no one can see,
we must stumble blindly forward, repeating history.
Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground (2002)
Because the truth is that gossip
is as good as gospel in this town.
You can save face but
you won't ever save your soul.
And that's a fact.
Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground (2002)
And I never thought this life was possible,You're the yellow bird that I've been waiting for.
I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning (2005)
And I sing and sing of awful things
The pleasure that my sadness brings.
Fevers and Mirrors (2000)
If I die tonight, then I guess I die tonight
Let me go on.
A Collection of Songs Written and Recorded 1995-1997 (1998)
The animals laugh from the dark of the wilderness.
Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground (2002)
There is nothing as lucky, as easy, or free
Digital Ash in a Digital Urn (2005)
For a sunrise or a sunset, you're manic or you’re depressed.
Will you ever feel ok?
Fevers and Mirrors (2000)
They locked the devil in the basement, threw god up into the air
Yeah, everything it must belong somewhere
Cassadaga (2007)
Future markets, holy wars
Been tried ten thousand times before
If you think that god is keeping score, hooray!
Cassadaga (2007)
But you should never be embarrassed by your trouble with living
Cause it's the ones with the sorest throats Laura,
who have done the most singing.
Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground (2002)
The sound of loneliness makes me happier
I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning (2005)
I wanna be your happiness.
I wanna be your common sense pain.
Conor Oberst (2008)
You'll be free child once you have died
from the shackles of language and measurable time
I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning (2005)
You could be happy, the minute you try.
Why won't you try? Oh won't you try?
Insound Tour Support No.12 (2000)
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.
Conor Oberst (2008)
If you wanna see the future,
Go stare into a cloud.
Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground (2002)