Bright Eyes Lyrics

    ------ About the song Four Winds performed by Bright Eyes

At the end of the day, what matters is individual interpretation however, I would like to share my thoughts on this poetic and philosophical masterpiece. I do agree that there is a positive call to rethink and question organized institutions including religious, academic,and economical/political in a tasteful, non-didcatic way. Brilliant.

    ------ About the song Lua performed by Bright Eyes

I can say with almost near certainty that this song is about drug-- most likely opiate, specifically--addiction.
As someone who struggles with this, when I heard this song playing in the background at a friend's house, I stopped dead in my tracks, paralyzed. It's eeriely accurate and the most spot-on song about addiction I have ever had.
I would garner that most everyone who thinks the song is about anything else, has never had a drug problem.
Like Conor sang, "It takes one to know one, kid."

    ------ About the song It's Cool, We Can Still Be Friends performed by Bright Eyes

This song made me tear up for a bit when I first heard it. I mean, it's just so, so fucking sad. It doesn't help the fact that the singer's voice is freaking shaking and trembling with all of the emotions that he didn't bother to cover up...

From that then on, I discovered more of his songs and I grew to love each....

And since I just recently discovered this song, and found out a terrible news about one of my favorite cosplayers and his relationship to his both mutual-feeling two lovers, (Their relationship consists of three people, so yes, two lovers.)AND I WAS FUCKING CRASHED, BASHED AND BATTERED inside because I felt so for him. My heart was reaching out to him. He was SO miserable... *sigh*... So I offer this you, LittleUkeBoy, even though this dilemma of yours is like a year ago... I only found out just now, so...

Yes... This is still for you.

    ------ About the song Poison Oak performed by Bright Eyes

Simon Joyner - look it up

"How do you feel about Bright Eyes borrowing the yellow bird symbol for Im Wide Awake, Its Morning?"

That song of mine, Came a Yellow Bird, was a really important song for Conor. He lost somebody in his family and wrote all the songs where he references that song, because he really appreciated it. He came over, before he recorded the songs and played them for me and asked if it was okay that he referenced my song in them and of course it was not a problem. I was flattered that the song meant so much to him that he pulled out a symbol that he wanted to use, because it had to do with the same kind of message. He did a great job writing about a difficult subject and I was glad to be a part of it in that way.

    ------ About the song Lover I Don't Have To Love performed by Bright Eyes

To me this song is about trying to forget love not a person but love itself trying to find a get away from it. A girl who's to sad to give a fuck is basically a girl like him someone who doesn't really want to get emotionally attached to someone. A boy so drunk he doesn't talk is basically to not get asked questions or let emotions get in the way neither of then want love. The kid with the chemicals is another get away from emotions from reality and a hunger I can't seem get to full is the emptiness inside him.
But in the end they want love they want a meaning in things though both of them are hurting though both of them are broken they want love and caring and the warm of a person.
It's not a shallow song at all it actually has a great meaning we all need love.

    ------ About the song First Day Of My Life performed by Bright Eyes

I would give this song about a 2 1/2 or a three. It was nice but not really what I expected. It is just one of those types of songs that you hear and you feel like you want to cry because it reminds you of your past. Not the kind of song for me, but I will show it to my bestie.

    ------ About the song Haligh, Haligh, A Lie, Haligh performed by Bright Eyes

I love this song, when he sings of the early mornings he remebers you remeber something from some one you love. I guess it's abaut beeing let down, by cheathing or something else but it's like he says "Whatever keeps you awake at night" And of that love and hate you feel for old lovers. I mean those who said that love was never going to die but, yeah, lied.
I think it's how you feel when you see someone you loved going down, or when you self going down and someone who loved you watching whitout doing a shit to stop it. "Where are you now?" And finally, you can carry on or you can stop living. "But do you want that?"

    ------ About the song Lua performed by Bright Eyes

Conor Oberst had an eating disorder. He wanted to be perfect and symmetrical. He ended up going to rehab for it. The girl in this song is his anorexia. It's not a real girl. "The mask I polish in the evening, by the morning looks like shit." is about how he can hide it at night, because he's been avoiding food all day, but by the morning the hunger pains are so bad that he can't hide the fact that he's not eating anymore. He is also talking about drug abuse but it's mainly to hide his anorexia and kill the hunger pains without actually eating so that his obsession with perfection can become a reality.

    ------ About the song The Awful Sweetness Of Escaping Sweat performed by Bright Eyes

Sweat is our own smell, we can't escape it. I think this song is how it feels to runaway from everything, but not be able to runaway from yourself.
Then there is this feeling of being followed. Never be alone, always have to run. It's kind of scary, we live in a place where you can't ever dissapear if you don't kill yourself. And it's what this song means to me; How you can't ever runaway from your life.

    ------ About the song Bottom Of Everything (We Must Sing) performed by Bright Eyes

You read the title, wandering eye. Now you're wondering if I'm as pretentious as I come off as.
And now you're thinking that I'm wrong and you didn't care about how much of a wanker I sounded like, no, you were thinking about how you agree that the song speaks for itself.
Now you think I'm a twat again. Shit.