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Quotes from I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning — Conor Oberst

born 1980 United States

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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)

The sound of loneliness makes me happier

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

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)

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.

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

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 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)

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)

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)

Attribution

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