Bright Eyes - Neely O'Hara - 05 (lyrics in the description)

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In the morning when you threw up water
And your skin turns a pale pale yellow
Well everyday you lose more color
Do you think that someone paints your mirror?
Do you think that someone paints your mirror?

And you think that things sound different,
at the time when you speak.
There are visions much clearer,
than these blurs that you see.
and like Neely O'Hara, you swallow your sleep
and you wake up in the morning
to find out you are not,
you are not who,
you are not who,
you used to be.

You don't recognize behavior
Or the spelling of your name
And the shape that's in the mirror
Well you'd swear it's not the same

And like Neely O'Hara
You swallow your sleep
And you really can't remember
But you know you are not
think you are not
No, you are not who you used to be
You used to be
You used to be
You used to be

No you are not
No you are not
No you are not

You used to be
You used to be
You used to be

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Bright Eyes
• lyrics
• conor oberst
• mike mogas
• m ward
• noise floor
• cassadaga
• folk
• indie

[laurencosby]

The beginning reminds me of some song I have heard somewhere a few times (possibly on TV as a kid), and it made me feel happy. Weird.

[klkool1]

@laurencosby I totally understand what you're staying, it's a feeling that I often get rather it be from this song, or seeing old stuff. A lot of it is about my Dad, It's a feeling of my adolescence, it is a very weird feeling and it's sometimes not a good feeling. It sorta makes me feel sad, but then at the same time I wish I could go back and try to fathom why it is I feel that feeling. I've tried to understand it a lot, and re-chapture it. No avail.

[patachute]

this brings back so many memories of who i use to be and who i still am

[calvin8227]

Thank you it's hard to focus onthe lyrics when the music consumes you and rips you down to bare sleeveless emotions

[laurencosby]

@The1armscissor No, I was too young in the 90s to be allowed to listen to The Butthole Surfers, haha. I think it was just one of those songs made for commercials that play for a few seconds.

I really don't know why I even remember it, considering that I had to be below the age of 7 at the time I heard it. Hmm, it's weird: the things we remember.

[The1armscissor]

@laurencosby Pepper by The Butthole Surfers, perhaps?

[12onetwo123]

Neely O'hara was a drug addict in valley of the dolls (novel) "swallow your sleep" refers to pills blah blah blah

[Jdaddy997]

@klkool1 I think you mean modest mouse. it sounds like modest mouse.

[Droncz87]

This band reminds me of my 10th grade gf, she was a weird one but she got me into some good music

[laurencosby]

@klkool1 I totally see what you're saying. That happens with me and a lot of Bright Eyes songs. Sadly, often the feeling is one from my last relationship. It makes me think of the bad parts...which describes about 10 months of it.

You said it much better than I did though, haha.

And I think I figured out what I was thinking of. I think it was a Nick or Cartoon Network commercial in the late 90s that had stop motion animation in it.

[Masteryre]

@johnmorrisonsband Yup... according to Conor in his live gig at Zelt Ulm, Germany, in 2005, the song is about a person who used to be loving and kind and then suddenly changed completely and started to fall in love with themselves more than anyone else and transformed, in his words, into "an awful person"...

[Masteryre]

@QueenOfTheAubergines Same, I can't describe the feeling of it. It's a very strange yet beautiful song. Probably one of Oberst's best.