Thursday, January 19, 2006

The sunrise or the sunset, hold your sadness like a puppet
Keep putting on the play
But everything you do is leading to the point
Where you just won’t know what to do
And the moment that you're laughing
There is someone there who will be laughing louder than you
So it’s true, the trick is complete
You've become everything you said you never would be
You’re a fool, you're a fool


I've grown tired of holding this pose
I feel more like a stranger each time I come home
So I'm making a deal with the devils of faith
Saying, let me walk away, please

We must blend into the choir, sing a static with the whole
We must memorize nine numbers and deny we have a soul
And to this endless race for property and privilege to be won
We must run, we must run, we must run

Time take us forward.
Relief from this longing.
They can land that plane on my heart;
I don’t care
.





Oh good ol conor oberst. He speaks the words of my very unpoetic mind.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Amen Sista! Conor's the best.

Teri said...

I have to say, he is very good. Probably the best lyricist I've ever heard.

Anonymous said...

wow...a beautiful writer