Some days I feel like I'm an atheist. Most days, I feel like an agnostic. On a very rare day, I feel like I'm a believer in something. Conor Oberst More Quotes by Conor Oberst More Quotes From Conor Oberst The drunk kids, the catholics They're all about the same They're waiting for something Hoping to be saved Conor Oberst drunkwaitingkids Love's an excuse to get hurt and to hurt. Do you like to hurt? I do, I do then hurt me. Conor Oberst hurt-meexcusehurt It's exploding bags, aerosol cans Southbound buses, Peter Pan They left it up to us again I thought you knew the drill It's kill or be killed. Conor Oberst peterbusbags I'd rather be working for a paycheck, than waiting to win the lottery. Besides, maybe this time it's different, I mean, I really think you like me. Conor Oberst winningmeanthinking There is no Hell when you die so don't look so worried Conor Oberst worriedhelllooks i keep drinking the ink from my pen and i'm balancing history books up on my head but it all boils down to one quotable phrase if you love something give it away Conor Oberst drinkinggivingbook My head's a carousel of pictures and The spinning never stops. Conor Oberst carouselsspinning And I never thought this life was possible,You're the yellow bird that I've been waiting for. In polaroids you were dressed in women's clothes Were you made ashamed, why'd you lock them in a drawer? Well, I don't think that I ever loved you more Well let the poets cry themselves to sleep And all their tearful words will turn back into steam The sound of loneliness makes me happier. Conor Oberst lonelinesssleepthinking 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). Conor Oberst eyesonglying 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! Conor Oberst lockskeyswaiting 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. Conor Oberst doctorsbraintwo I think it is more like a ghost that has been following us both. Something vague that we're not seeing, something more like a feeling. Conor Oberst ghostfeelingsthinking I wanna be your happiness. I wanna be your common sense pain. Conor Oberst common-sensepaincommon I started to sink like the moon tends to do if you stare at it too long Then you blink and it's gone. Conor Oberst moongonelong And the sad act like lepers They stick to the shadows They long to ring bells of warning To tell of their coming So that the pure can shut their doors. Conor Oberst shadowdoorslong I drug your ghost across the country, and we plotted out my death. Every city and memory we whispered "Here is where you rest." Well I was determined in Chicago but I dug my teeth into my knees And I settled for a telephone, sang into your machine: "You are my sunshine, my only sunshine. Conor Oberst sunshinememoriescountry And I sing and sing of awful things The pleasure that my sadness brings. Conor Oberst awfulpleasuresadness For a sunrise or a sunset, you're manic or you're depressed. Will you ever feel ok? Conor Oberst sunrisesunsetfeels It's not a movie, no private screening This method acting, well, I call that living Conor Oberst methodwellsacting When you're 16 or 17, I think like most people that age, the first time you experience certain things in life, whether it's heartbreak or death or love, obviously it's going to seem like a much bigger deal. Conor Oberst things-in-lifepeoplethinking
