| Bright Eyes – We Are Nowhere and It's Now Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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this is such a beautiful song. the part about the waitress makes me want to cry. receiving sympathy from strangers is one of the saddest things i can think of. i mean, when someone who doesn't even know you or your problems feels bad for you... i also love the part that goes "Why are you scared to dream of God When it's salvation that you want? You see stars that clear have been dead for years But the idea just lives on " i guess that's the whole thing about how the light from the stars you see in the sky takes so long to reach your eyes that the stars might not even be there anymore, it just looks like it to you. that's always interested me, that you could be seeing something that no longer exists. |
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| Bright Eyes – Lua Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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personally, i think this song is about bulimia, at least partially. didn't one of conor oberst's ex-girlfriends have bulimia? as a bulimic myself, this song speaks out to me. she keeps going to the bathroom to throw up, of course, and she's making up excuses when they both know what's going on. also, the part about "i know you have a heavy heart, i can feel it when we kiss" - i think he's saying he wants to tell her the truth, that he's not going to be there, he's not going to be "the one", he won't even be there the next morning. telling her not to depend on him. |
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| Bright Eyes – A Line Allows Progress, a Circle Does Not Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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it's funny, because to me this song is talking about anorexia, even if that's not what it's really about. "You think you don't want to pass out Where your roommates will find you again" - when you don't eat enough you get weak and can pass out. anorexia is about secrets, so you don't want your roommates to know how badly you're doing. "And your parents noticed your thinning face All the weight you lost All the weight you are losing You said, "I'm done feeling like a skeleton No more sleepwalking dead" - kind of obvious. parents noticing something's wrong, you feel like you're just a walking skeleton. and the camera thing: you're thinking about how it was before your eating disorder developed, how all you have left from then is memories. i have an eating disorder, so that's why it pops out to me as about anorexia. the thing about conor oberst's songs, i think, is that they mean such different things to different people. |
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