| Bright Eyes – Let's Not Shit Ourselves (To Love and to Be Loved) Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| every lyric in this song is flawlessly written | |
| Bright Eyes – Laura Laurent Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| also, in response to words&tricks, i completely agree with the laura/lua theory. it makes perfect sense because the two people (if they are different...) seem to be facing the same ailments (ie. eating disorder, cocaine addiction). it is in conor's writing style to rename his lovers, the same way he did with "ariennette". good thought:] | |
| Bright Eyes – Laura Laurent Lyrics | 19 years ago |
|
"Your thoughts have always lain close to mine Yeah, we were both skipping supper" i think laura is the eating disordered girl conor frequently refers to in his writing. in "i've been eating (for you), "lua", "neely o'hara", etc. all based around her food issues. he also mentions in almost all his work things that can be brought back to his probable eating disorder (ie. his obsession with mirrors on Fevers And Mirrors, in all likelihood the fever was brought about by his trouble in the mirror). anyway this is a beautiful song, i can't even choose my favorite lyric, they all hit me really hard. |
|
| Bright Eyes – I Watched You Taking Off Lyrics | 19 years ago |
|
UGH one of the best oberst songs ever written! "consistency like that which i have craved is that people change so unexpectedly and realization finds you in a drunken airport some planes depart and others never arrived" |
|
| Bright Eyes – Haligh, Haligh, a Lie, Haligh Lyrics | 19 years ago |
|
"But I talk in the mirror To the stranger that appears Our conversations are circles Always one sided Nothing is clear Except we keep coming back To this meaning that I lack He says the choices were given Now you must live them Or just not live But do you want that?" ^conor's bluntly detailing his probable eating disorder in those verses. the "stranger in the mirror" is the unrecognizable person you become after you've lost a significant amount of weight. usually the eating disordered person is so caught up in their illness that it takes a really large amount of weight for them to even notice they're not the same. it's like you suddenly realize your body's response. and this person in the mirror asks him if he wants to not live, almost as if it's his disorder questioning how far he's willing to take it and how sick he's willing to get. it's incredible how clearly he depicts the mind of an anoretic (not all anoretics however think the same way i guess, i can't speak for a whole group of people). he just completely nails the battle between you and that bitch inside your head and inside the mirror that tells you not to eat. incredible. "this weight it must be satisfied" only enforces this. |
|
| Bright Eyes – Drunk Kid Catholic Lyrics | 19 years ago |
|
in responce to question about conor's religion, i'm pretty sure he's agnostic. he was raised catholic and his family is, hence in Road To Joy when he sings "my parents they have their religion but sleep in seperate houses". "Was it true what I heard about the son of God? Did he come to save? Did he come at all? And if I dried his feet with my dirty hair Would he make me clean again?" -don't know when but a day is gonna come "don't fall for that Christ bait it's about as passe as rockstar arrogance." -carrot diamond also, his play on "making friends with jesus christ" in Arc Of Time, and his hostility towards bush's religion in When The President Talks To God. |
|
| Bright Eyes – Bad Blood Lyrics | 19 years ago |
|
"Up all night, all upset. Outside's growing light. No breakfast, just not much of an appetite." seriously there's a food, eating or mirror reference in almost all of conor's songs. being up all night could be caused by malnutition from this lack of appetite (or rather disregard towards eating). |
|
| Bright Eyes – Arienette Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| "So don’t leave me here with only mirrors watching me". am i the only one who notices conor can't escape the mirror? | |
| Bright Eyes – Another Travelin' Song Lyrics | 19 years ago |
|
Hillsonn-- that painting in a cave lyric that keeps popping up is talking about the primitive nature of man. in drunk kids catholic, "they crawl from the oceans to paint in the caves" shows evolution and the following lyric, "but i'm working all weekend i need to get paid" shows the irony in it all. it's as if human kind has come so far only to become obsessed with trivial things such as money. "now i'm hunched over a typewriter, i guess you call that painting in a cave" is funny because of the typewriter being a more primitive form of writing as opposed to computers, conor kindof adds a pun to the line with that. but mainly he's detailing the hard work he's enduring to comunicate a message to others, similarly to cavemen "painting" as a form of communication through symbols. he's comparing his primitivity to that of all mankind by saying we are all trying to comunicate and connect with others for our whole lives, though ultimately we end up alone. |
|
| Bright Eyes – An Interview with Conor Oberst Lyrics | 19 years ago |
|
"Conor: And then the mirror is like, as you might have guessed, self-examination or reflection or whatever form. This could be vanity or self-loathing. I don’t know, I’m guilty of both." ^a line that could be related to his probable eating disorder. eating disorders are a balance of vainity and selfishness with insecurity. fyi guys, this is not an interview. it's meant to be conor talking to someone who's not really there, hence him asking if the "reporter" ever thinks he hears things that aren't really there, and the reporter only working at the station for a few minutes. |
|
| Bright Eyes – A Perfect Sonnet Lyrics | 19 years ago |
|
"But as for me I'm coming to my final failure I've killed myself with changes trying to make it better But I still ended up becoming something other Than what I had planned to be" of course this is a very general lyric, but it hits home with the falling into an eating disorder. the "final failure" is a deffinate point where you just decide to stop (of course i can't speak for everyone or every E.D.). there's a point where you've been somewhat eating, not enough to meet your daily caloric needs but eating none the less (a good estimate for this period of time would be 600-700 calories a day?), and you feel guilty as hell all the time. you can no longer excuse it because you are imposing this unbearable misery on yourself, you feel like you'd be better if this bother (food) was gone completely, rather than mildly cut back on. it feels like something in your brain snaps and you suddenly can't go on eating this way, and out of nowhere here comes this huge terrible eating disorder and around 300 calories a day. of course this isn't completely a concious decision (hence the "disorder"), but all in all it was meant for improvement on your body or on your need for nourishment, just as conor mentions. you don't start out planning to be a skelleton or anything, it more or less just happens. anyways, i meant to post this with my above comment. sorry. |
|
| Bright Eyes – A Perfect Sonnet Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| i think the endless fever conor complains about sweating in has been caused by his life inside the mirror. yet another eating disorder possibility, although this whole album implies it. | |
| Bright Eyes – A Line Allows Progress, a Circle Does Not Lyrics | 19 years ago |
|
"and your parents noticied your thinning face, all the weight you lost all the weight you are losing" ^i feel like conor's drug use is somewhat related to this continuous mention of food, weight, mirrors, scales, etc. of course that wouldn't be enough to drive a drug/alcohol addiction, but i think the combination of conor's absolute desire to forget with that would. i swear he has an eating disorder, he talks about it in at least half his work. |
|
| Bright Eyes – A Scale, a Mirror, and Those Indifferent Clocks Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| what an incredible song. wow. i'm not saying this song is based on an eating disorder because i don't believe it is, but conor is continuously referencing ED's suddly throughout most of his work. the scale is direct, and means much more than weight in mass but describes the unbearable weight of being (perhaps?). maybe the weight of physical existance and reliance on it, which is the backbone of some eating disorders. in this album conor's fallen completely into the mirror, it's all he writes about, much like the life of an eating disordered person. | |
| Bright Eyes – Lua Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| this is about an eating disorder. yes, there are drug references, and cocaine is a typical drug of choice for eating disordered people. generally it feels bad enough to eat emotionally, but it's almost worse to eat because you have to give in to the weakness (appetite). eating disorders (anorexia mainly) are a war against the mind and the body, where the mind wishes to be independent of the body and starve it away, but in the end only one can win out and the body always does (except in case of death; see "wasted" by Marya Hornbacher for explaination of this). it is the victory of the body that the eating disordered person is fighting, and cocaine supports that by removing the aspect of physical hunger. just my thoughts. | |
| Bright Eyes – I've Been Eating (For You) Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| yet another song about this girl he loves with an eating disorder. "i've been eating for you" is conor saying he's been eating to make up for her lack there-of. i sometimes wonder if conor might have ever had an eating disorder himself by the way he writes about them, he's quite aware of what's going on (neely o'hara). | |
| Bright Eyes – Neely O'Hara Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| this song's clearly relative to the character in valley of the dolls, otherwise the names wouldn't be identical. but ultimately it's about an eating disorder. the reference to throwing up could be a variety of things, but generally after a person has been inducing vomiting for a while they're skin turns the yellow color conor describes. "do you think that someone paints your mirror?" inforces the distorted view of an eating disordered person, and "the blurs that you see" are an effect of malnutrition. the sudden discovery of not being who you used to be is what typically happens when someone is so caught up in maintaining their illness that they don't seem to notice their gradual weight loss, and they feel as if it happened overnight. that might be why conor adds the bit about swallowing sleep. the unrecognizable behavior is the odd ways eating disordered people live, the way they divide their food, the way they chew every piece of food in no more or less of a certain amount of bites (of course, each behavior is specific to the individual). the first time i heard this song i understood the swallowing of sleep as not sleeping at all, as if to say that it is all you swallow. when people are malnourished they become shockingly manic and tend to get very little sleep. just my input. | |
* This information can be up to 15 minutes delayed.