Conor Oberst Quotes

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.

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

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.

But where was it when I first heard that sweet sound of humility?
It came to my ears in the goddamn loveliest melody!
How grateful I was, then, to be part of the mystery,
To love, and to be loved!
Let’s just hope that is enough.

For a song I was bought
Now I lie when I talk
With a careful eye on the cue card.
Onto a stage I was pushed,
With my sorrow well rehearsed.
So give me all your pity and your money, now (all of it).

My head's a carousel of pictures and
The spinning never stops.

It is clear to see that it is not them but me, who had lost my self-identity. As I hide behind these books I read, while scribbling my poetry, like art could save a wretch like me, with some ideal ideology that no one can hope to achieve. And I am never real; it is just a sketch of me. And everything I have made is trite and cheap and a waste of paint, of tape, of time

He once cut one of my nightmares out of paper.
I thought it was beautiful, I put it on a record cover.

So you think I need some discipline, well, I had my share. I have been sent to my room. I've been sat in a chair. I held my tongue. I didn't plug my ears. No, I got a good talking to. And now I don't know why, but I still try to smile when they talk at me like I'm just a child. Well, I'm not a child. No, I am much younger than that. And now I have read some books and have grown quite brave. If only I could just speak up I think I would say that there is no truth. There is only you and what you make the truth.

Love's an excuse to get hurt and to hurt. Do you like to hurt? I do, I do then hurt me.

As they take eye for an eye until no one can see, we must stumble blindly forward, repeating history.

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

Well, ABC, NBC, CBS: Bullshit. They give us fact or fiction? I guess an even split.

Honesty" "Accuracy" is just "Popular Opinion.

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.