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Conor Oberst
American
Musician
About the author
No lies, just love.
Conor Oberst,
American
Musician
#Love
#Lies
I know a girl who cries when she practices violin because each note sounds so pure it just cuts into her, and then the melody comes pouring out her eyes. Now, to me, everything else just sounds like a lie.
Conor Oberst,
American
Musician
#Now
#Eyes
#Lie
I like to feel the burn of the audience's eyes when I'm whispering all my darkest secrets into the microphone.
Conor Oberst,
American
Musician
#Eyes
#Secrets
I really just want to be warm yellow light that pours over everyone I love.
Conor Oberst,
American
Musician
#Want
#Love
#Light
I've cried, and you'd think I'd be better for it, but the sadness just sleeps, and it stays in my spine the rest of my life.
Conor Oberst,
American
Musician
#Life
#Rest
#Sadness
If the world could remain within a frame like a painting on the wall, I think we'd see the beauty then and stand staring in awe.
Conor Oberst,
American
Musician
#World
#Beauty
#Painting
Love's an excuse to get hurt.
Conor Oberst,
American
Musician
#Love
#Hurt
We must memorize nine numbers and deny we have a soul.
Conor Oberst,
American
Musician
#Numbers
#Soul
Now I believe that lovers should be draped in flowers and laid entwined together on a bed of clover and left there to sleep, left there to dream of their happiness.
Conor Oberst,
American
Musician
#Now
#Flowers
#Dream
#Happiness
#Sleep
#Bed
#Lovers
Screaming is bad for the voice, but it's good for the heart.
Conor Oberst,
American
Musician
#Heart
#Voice
There's all body types, but there's just one size.
Conor Oberst,
American
Musician
#Body
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.
Conor Oberst,
American
Musician
#Garden
#Sleep
#Spring
#Sadness
When everything is lonely I can be my best friend.
Conor Oberst,
American
Musician
#Friend
#Lonely
Let the poets cry themselves to sleep, and all their tearful words will turn back into steam.
Conor Oberst,
American
Musician
#Words
#Will
#Poets
#Sleep
Why are you scared to dream of god when it's salvation that you want?
Conor Oberst,
American
Musician
#Want
#God
#Dream
#Salvation