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Saw the wave of the future through the crack of the dam
Drowned the soul singer in the session band
Bless the soul singer in the session band
Cassadaga (2007)
In the South the Sun is shining
Back in the East the lights went out
Out in the West the cars are crashing
Up in the North the ice gave out
Cassadaga (2007)
I wanna be a shower in the morning
That wakes you up and makes you clean
I know I'm just the weather against your window
As you sleep through a winter's dream
Digital Ash in a Digital Urn (2005)
If I loved you, well that's my fault
Conor Oberst (2008)
He once cut one of my nightmares out of paper.
I thought it was beautiful, I put it on a record cover.
Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground (2002)
We're all too busy working, entertaining ourselves
With forty hours, television and prescription pills
Well, I take two a day to help my brain behave
It never does, but who's to say? At least my doctor gets paid.
There Is No Beginning to the Story (2003)
Well, I stood dropping a coin into the pit of a well.
And I would throw my whole billfold if I thought it would help.
Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground (2002)
I sing and drink and sleep on floors
And try hard not to be annoyed
By all these people worrying about me.
So when I'm suffering through some awful drive,
You occasionally cross my mind.
It's my hidden hope that you are still among them.
Well, are you?
Don't Be Frightened of Turning the Page (2001)
Well let the poets cry themselves to sleep
And all their tearful words will turn back into steam
I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning (2005)
Well, I could have been a famous singer
If I had someone else's voice
But failure's always sounded better
Let's fuck it up, boys, make some noise!
I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning (2005)
The sun is eclipsed as silence swoons
Cassadaga (2007)
I find that life is easier when it is just a blur
With no details to confuse who or what or where I was
So when the ending comes the full regret will be obscure
Letting Off the Happiness (1998)
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.
Digital Ash in a Digital Urn (2005)
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!
Insound Tour Support No.12 (2000)
And there's kids playing guns in the streets
And one's pointing his tree branch at me
So I put my hands up I say
"Enough is enough,
If you walk away I walk away."
And he shot me dead.
I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning (2005)