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We must memorize nine numbers and deny we have a soul.

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Conor Oberst
Age: 44
Born: 1980
Born: February 15
Guitarist
Musician
Singer-Songwriter
Omaha
Nebraska
Conor Mullen Oberst
Nine
Deny
Numbers
Soul
Must
Memorize

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The drunk kids, the catholics They're all about the same They're waiting for something Hoping to be saved
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Men with purple hearts carry silver guns and they will kill a man for what his father has done. But what my father did, I don't live it: no, I am not him.
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Popular music is all about traveling at the speed of you and elevating the individual as the highest thing in the world.
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To me, a political song is also a personal song. Most political activism has been driven by empathy for other people and the desire for a world that's less divisive. Even if songs aren't overtly political, they can make a listener more empathetic.
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I like to feel the burn of the audience's eyes when I'm whispering all my darkest secrets into the microphone.
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