Conor Oberst Quotes

born 1980 United States

Conor Oberst (born February 15, 1980) is an American singer-songwriter best known for his work in Bright Eyes. He has also played in several other bands, including Desaparecidos, Commander Venus and Park Ave.

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Also known as: Conor oberst, Oberst, Conor, Bright Eyes

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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.

Letting Off the Happiness (1998)

Ambition, I’ve found, can lead only to failure. I do not read the reviews. No, I am not singing for you.

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

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

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

I'm a repeat first time offender
Who has rewritten history

Cassadaga (2007)

It was a small mistake
Sometimes that is all it takes.

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

And me I'm in my bedroom drawing in my notebook
Because my hand thinks I'm an artist
But my heart knows I'm a poet
It's just words they mean so little to me.

A Collection of Songs Written and Recorded 1995-1997 (1998)

Hear the chimes, did you know that the wind when it blows
It is older than Rome and our joy and our sorrow

Cassadaga (2007)

If the world could remain within a frame
Like a painting on a wall,
Then I think we would see the beauty, then
We would stand staring in awe
At our still lives posed
Like a bowl of oranges,
Like a story told
By the fault lines and the soil.

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

Oh, I've made love, yeah, I've been fucked, so what?
I'm a cartoon, you're a full moon, let's stay up

Cassadaga (2007)

My Brother went to college
To become a doctor
And if he studies hard enough
He'll end up just like papa, who hates his life.

A Collection of Songs Written and Recorded 1995-1997 (1998)

Sometimes I worry that I've lost the plot
My twitching muscles tease my flippant thoughts
I never really dreamed of heaven much
Until we put him in the ground.

Digital Ash in a Digital Urn (2005)

Is it midnight or high noon?

Cassadaga (2007)

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?

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

I know you have a heavy heart, I can feel it when we kiss
So many men stronger than me
Have thrown their backs out trying to lift it
But me I'm not a gamble
You can count on me to split
The love I sell you in the evening by the morning won't exist.

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

Love's an excuse to get hurt and to hurt.
Do you like to hurt?
I do, I do
then hurt me.

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

I never thought of running
My feet just led the way

Cassadaga (2007)

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

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

I never fuck with Facebook. I absolutely despise social networking. I think it's truly going to result in the destruction of mankind. Sometimes I just wish I didn't live in this time. Before, there was so much more freedom and privacy, and you could truly escape places.

Now the sky is a torn up denim and the clouds are just splattered paint
It's a room I'm renovating; it's a name I got to change

Cassadaga (2007)

I traveled though the atmosphere
As a wall of feedback climbed
The pegs were gold, the band was old
They played in half time

Cassadaga (2007)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Conor Oberst (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.