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Your class, your caste, your country, sect, your name or your tribe
There's people always dying trying to keep them alive

— Conor Oberst Cassadaga (2007)

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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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So what if a kid dies? God will take care of him.

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