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Quotes from Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground — Conor Oberst

born 1980 United States

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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)

The animals laugh from the dark of the wilderness.

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

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)

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)

It's not a movie,
no private screening
This method acting,
well, I call that living

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

The hook is in deep boys,
there is no more time.
So you can struggle in the water
and be too stubborn to die,
or you could just let go and be lifted to the sky.

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

And each new act of war is tonight's entertainment.
We're still the pawns in their game.

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

Well is it your fear of being buried
that makes you so afraid to speak?

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

"Honesty" "Accuracy" is just "Popular Opinion."

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

If I could act like
This was my real life,
And not some cage where I've been placed,
Well then, I could tell you
The truth like I used to
And not be afraid of sounding fake.

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

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

Attribution

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