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I think it is more like a ghost
that has been following us both.
Something vague that we're not seeing,
something more like a feeling.

— Conor Oberst Fevers and Mirrors (2000)

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Now I know a disease that these Doctors can’t treat. | You contract on the day you accept all you see is a mirror and a mirror is all it can be. | A reflection of something we’re missing. | And these clocks keep unwinding and completely ignore everything that we hate or adore. | Once the page of a calendar is turned it’s no more. | So tell me then, what was it for? | Oh tell me, what was it for? | A Scale, A Mirror And Those Indifferent Clocks | Soon all the joy that pours from everything makes fountains of your eyes because you finally understand the movement of a hand waving good-bye. | The Movement Of A Hand** | You combed your hair inside that mirror | The one you painted blue and glued with jewelry tears | Something about those bright colors | Would always make you feel better. < | You said you hate my suffering, and you understood | And you’d take care of me. | You'd always be there for me | Well, where are you now? | Haligh, Haligh, a lie, Haligh | The plans were never finalized | But left to hang like yarn and twine | Dangling before my eyes. | Haligh, Haligh, A Lie, Haligh | Sunrise, sunset. | Sunrise, sunset. | Swiftly go the days. | Sunrise, sunset. | You wake up, then you undress. | It always is the same. | a sunrise and the sun sets. | Sunrise, the sun sets. | You are hopeful and then you regret. | The circle never breaks. | For a sunrise or sunset. | You’re either coming or you just left but you’re always on the way. | It’s a sunrise and a sunset. | From a cradle to a casket. | There’s no way to escape. | Sunrise, Sunset | Did you expect it all to stop | At the wave of your hand? | Like the sun’s just gonna drop | If it’s night you demand. | I think you lost what you loved | In that mess of details. | They seemed so important at the time | Now you can’t even recall | Any names, faces, or lines | It’s more the feeling of it all. | An attempt to tip the scales | But all I have for the moment is a song to pass the time. | Yeah, a melody to keep me fro

More quotes by Conor Oberst

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)

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