Bright Eyes - A Line Allows Progress, A Circle Does Not

Sitting around, no work today
Try pacing to keep awake
Laying around, no school today
Just drink until the clock has circled all the way

It is late afternoon
as you walk through the rooms
of a house that is quiet
except for unanswered telephones
You stand near the sink
while you're mixing a drink
You think you don't want to pass out
where your roommates will find you again

Stumble around the neighborhood with nothing to do
You're always looking for something to sniff, smoke or swallow
Calling over next door to see what they got
But you would settle for anything that would make your brain slow down or stop

Break this circle of thoughts you chase before they catch back up with you
And your parents noticed your thinning face
All the weight you lost
All the weight you are losing

You said "I'm done feeling like a skeleton, no more sleep walking dead"
You're going to wake from this coma
You're going to crawl from this bed you have made
And stop counting on that camera
that hangs round your neck
Because it won't ever remember
what you choose to forget

As you try to find some source of light
Try to name one thing you like
You used to have such a longer list
And light you never had to look for it
But now it's so easy to second guess everything you do
until all you want is to

Finish this half empty glass
before the ice all melts away
This feeling always used to pass
Seems like it's every day
Seems like it's every night now

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• not

[smartarted]

I listen to brutal death metal bands like Digested Flesh and Dying Fetus and I still love Bright Eyes with a passion, Conor Oberst has and always will be my biggest hero.

[XTheConfuserX]

Its too hard to not cry to this song.

[ontherunhome]

@smartarted yeah same here. i have and always will be a metalhead, but conor oberst just has something in his music and lyrics that you cant get from anyone else but him. and it is funny from people on the outside of it to say that he is not a good musician or good with lyrics, because this guy is one of the best there has ever been. i think he needs more recognition; even though conor has already had some, he is just the voice that has just gotten better with age like a fine fucking wine.

[Soraplushie]

I love the waltzy feel

[riojude23]

@ElanoreJ How long ago was that?

[lynch03]

@ElanoreJ umm i really don't think you know what you're talking about. weird that you metion the double door, i was there for the first time last week, and it's very, very, small time venue

[ElanoreJ]

he had a junkie girlfriend at the timeBLAH!she has a tattoo of on of his songs, so i think this song wasnt about him using drugs, more so about his psycho gf, i actually saw them basically having sex in the vip area of the double door in chicago, someone gave me a backstage pass&was so exceited to meet him but him&his girl JUkiki were snorting coke and on top of each other,not into drugs sokind of a letdown,but i did get to talk to him for ike 5 minutes when that girl passed out on his lap.lol.

[MyAcousticHeartbeat]

i used to be so into drugs and drinking, and now that i'm 5 months sober, i wish i would have found this song earlier. he always has a way of writing songs that feel like they were written for chapters of my life. i respect him to no end.

[lynch03]

it's like he's writing the songs, that i'm not clever enough to come up with myself. .. i relate so much.

[lynch03]

@Peaceforbreakfast123 i love you

[babijzzy]

He is so beautiful at :30 :(

[NeverShoutKaila]

i heard today that some guy had made up his own Conor Oberst religion, in which he praised Conor in all of his beauty. i think i should become a follower of said religion.