"Now, a mother takes loans out, sends her kids off to colleges; her family’s reduced to names on a shopping list."
"I’ve learned to retreat at the first sign of danger. I mean, why wait around, if it's just to surrender? An ambition, I’ve found, can lead only to failure."
"I stood dropping a coin into the pit of a well and I would throw my whole billfold if I thought it would help. With all these wishes I make, I should buy something real, at least a telephone call home."
"My teachers, they built this retaining wall of memories, all those multiple choices I answered so quickly. And got my grades back and forgot just as easily, but at least I got an A. So I don't have them to blame."
"While poison ink spews from a speechwriter's pen, he knows he don't have to say it, so it, it don't bother him. 'Honesty' 'Accuracy' is just 'Popular Opinion'."
"Well, ABC-, NBC-, CBS bullshit. They give us fact or fiction? I guess an even split."
"I awoke in relief. My sheets and tubes were all tangled weak from whiskey and pills, in a Chicago hospital. And my father was there, in a chair by the window, staring so far away. I tried talking, just whispered, '...so sorry...so selfish..' He stopped me and said, 'Child I love you regardless and there is nothing you could do that would ever change this. I'm not angry. It happens. But you just can't do it again.'"
"How grateful I was then to be part of the mystery, to love and to be loved. Let's just hope that is enough."
Let's Not Shit Ourselves (To Love And Be Loved) - Bright Eyes
Okej, jag vet att det här är mitt första inlägg (förvänta er inte att alla kommer vara såhär, det kommer för det mesta bara vara ett citat) och det blev kanske lite långt. Men när Oberst gör en låt som är så bra rätt igenom är det svårt att inte ta med allt.
Jag hittade den här versionen på sing365, och om man tar sig tid för att scrolla ner till botten så finns det ett par ganska bra kommentarer om vad Oberst menar. Men det tar jag inte upp här.
Okay, I know this is my first post (do not expect that everyone will be like this, it will mostly just be a quote) and maybe it was a bit long. But when Oberst makes a song that is so good right through, it is difficult not to include everything.
I found this version on sing365, and if you take the time to scroll to the bottom, there are a couple of pretty good comments about what Oberst says. But I'm not going to bring that up here.
