Conor Oberst Quotes
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Joe Arpaio needs no help from me getting attention. For years he has been a beacon of bigotry and intolerance for all the world to see. The list of human and civil-rights abuses he’s committed in Maricopa County is long and well documented.
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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.
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We might die from medication but we sure killed all the pain
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Sometimes I worry that I've lost the plotMy twitching muscles tease my flippant thoughtsI never really dreamed of heaven muchUntil we put him in the ground.
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It's hard to get people to focus on one idea.
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I think there's so much about Rasta culture that's interesting. Just the idea of preaching one-ness, that we're all in this together.
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Well morning came, and it dressed the sky in a lovely yellow gown.Shopping malls are opening in that narrow hallway of downtown,filled with people who are shopping for their lovers and their friends,singing 'I won't ever be lonely again'
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If you wanna see the future, Go stare into a cloud.
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My Brother went to collegeTo become a doctorAnd if he studies hard enoughHe'll end up just like papa, who hates his life.
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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
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Little soldier, little insectYou know war it has no heartIt will kill you in the sunshineOr happily in the the darkWhere kindness is a card gameOr a bent up cigaretteIn the trenches, in the hard rainWith a bullet and a bet.
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I wanna be your happiness.I wanna be your common sense pain.
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If you walk away I'll walk awayfirst tell me which road you will takeI don't want to risk our paths crossing somedayso you walk that way I'll walk this way
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Although Omaha is my birthplace and the place I grew up, I don't see myself spending extended amounts of time there. I feel almost more comfortable and more at peace in New York.
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So I want to get myself attached to something bolted down,So that these winds of circumstance won't keep blowing me around.From when I land to when I leavethere is enough time to sleep and sing.I keep running around, when all I want is to lay motionless.
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Oh, I've made love, yeah, I've been fucked, so what?I'm a cartoon, you're a full moon, let's stay up.
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I started to sink like the moon tends to do if you stare at it too longThen you blink and it's gone
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There is no Hell when you die so don't look so worried
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So I go back and forth foreverAll my thoughts they come in pairsOh I will, I won't, I doubt, I don't,I'm not surprised but I never feel quite prepared
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And me I'm in my bedroom drawing in my notebookBecause my hand thinks I'm an artistBut my heart knows I'm a poetIt's just words they mean so little to me.
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I find that life is easier when it is just a blurWith no details to confuse who or what or where I wasSo when the ending comes the full regret will be obscure
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I want to be the surgeon who cuts you openWho fixes all of life's mistakesI want to be the house that you were raised inThe only place where you feel safe.
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In a coma, you don't dream,you just hope that someone sits with you.
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I understand why people get desensitized and roll their eyes when they hear a protest song, or even a politician making some flowery speech. It doesn't really change anything.