Bright Eyes Quotes
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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.
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The world's become a little too mean.
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so believe you're who you areand stay in characterbut at the end of the play the audience walks awayand ill be shivering cold on a well lit stage
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And I'm sorry about the phone call and needing youSome decisions you don't makeI guess it's just like breathing or not wanting toThere are some things you can't fake
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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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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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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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There is no Hell when you die so don't look so worried
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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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If I could act likeThis was my real life,And not some cage where I've been placed,Well then, I could tell youThe truth like I used toAnd not be afraid of sounding fake.
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I like to feel the burn of the audience's eyes when I'm whispering all my darkest secrets into the microphone.
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So I wait for the day when I'll hear the key as it turns in the lock And the guard will say to me, 'Oh my patient prisoner you waited for this day and finally, you are free! You are free! You are free!'
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And I never thought this life was possible,You're the yellow bird that I've been waiting for.
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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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My parents ask if I'm alright; I say 'I've just been staying up too late.I need to sleep' I need to do something!To get this awful weight up off my chest,keep her pretty ghost from chasing me!
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Ambition, I’ve found, can lead only to failure. I do not read the reviews. No, I am not singing for you.
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And you speak of a fever, that burns you inside,as you explain to your mother, how you've wanted to die.So she kisses your fingers, and says 'My darling, but why?When there is so much more. There is so much more.'
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And I sing and sing of awful thingsThe pleasure that my sadness brings.
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I like the Alice in Wonderland sculpture in Central Park. I love how it's been rained on forever and looks worn down by time.
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We're all too busy working, entertaining ourselvesWith forty hours, television and prescription pills Well, I take two a day to help my brain behaveIt never does, but who's to say? At least my doctor gets paid.
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Well, I could have been a famous singerIf I had someone else's voiceBut failure's always sounded betterLet's fuck it up, boys, make some noise!
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They say it's better to bury your sadness in a graveyard or garden that waits for the spring to wake from its sleep and burst into green.
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If I loved you, well that's my fault
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we made love on the living room floorwith the noise in the background of a televised warand in that defeaning pleasure i thought i heard someone sayif we walk away they'll walk away