Conor Oberst Quotes

The Bible's blind. The Torah's deaf. The Qur'an is mute.
If you burned them all together you’d get close to the truth.

I’ve seen a child, he's caught in the sad trap of gravity. He falls from the lowest branch of the apple tree and lands in the grass and weeps for his dignity. Next time he will not aim so high. Yeah, next time, neither will I.

My Brother went to college
To become a doctor
And if he studies hard enough
He'll end up just like papa, who hates his life.

I'm sorry about the phone call; and waking you.
I know that it is late,
But thank you for talking, because I needed to.
Some things just can't wait.

The animals laugh from the dark of the wilderness.

Ambition, I’ve found, can lead only to failure. I do not read the reviews. No, I am not singing for you.

It was a small mistake Sometimes that is all it takes.

so believe you're who you are
and stay in character
but at the end of the play the audience walks away
and ill be shivering cold on a well lit stage

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.

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.

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!

The squatters made a mural of a Mexican girl
With fifteen cans of spray paint and a chemical swirl
She's standing in the ashes at the end of the world
Four winds blowing through her hair.

The sound of loneliness makes me happier

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?

Honesty" "Accuracy" is just "Popular Opinion.