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I drink to stay warm, and to kill selected memories

Conor Oberst

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Conor Oberst
Age: 44
Born: 1980
Born: February 15
Guitarist
Musician
Singer-Songwriter
Omaha
Nebraska
Conor Mullen Oberst
Stay
Memories
Selected
Depression
Warm
Killing
Kill
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Desaparecidos try to be the opposite of apathetic. There are so many young people in America that are apathetic.
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It's in vogue to have a cause and give money in charity. But to actually speak up and say something like, I'm pissed about this - that doesn't seem to be very popular unless you're writing a blog or tweeting.
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I kind of go in waves with reading. Sometimes I read all the time, and sometimes I can't get settled enough to focus.
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I think in a lot of ways unconditional love is a myth. My mom's the only reason I know it's a real thing.
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If I could act like This was my real life, And not some cage where I've been placed, Well then, I could tell you The truth like I used to And not be afraid of sounding fake.
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Because the truth is that gossip is as good as gospel in this town. You can save face but you won't ever save your soul. And that's a fact.
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I started to sink like the moon tends to do if you stare at it too long Then you blink and it's gone.
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Well morning came, and it dressed the sky in a lovely yellow gown. Shopping malls are opening in that narrow hallway of downtown, filled with people who are shopping for their lovers and their friends, singing I won't ever be lonely again
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Since the songs were written over a five-year period, I think these are little snapshots. Some people call it political or topical, but I think each song is self-contained. I think it fits together as a picture of the last half-decade of time.
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Little soldier, little insect You know war it has no heart It will kill you in the sunshine Or happily in the the dark Where kindness is a card game Or a bent up cigarette In the trenches, in the hard rain With a bullet and a bet.
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I'm not the most technically savvy person in the world. Like, I'm not good at troubleshooting when stuff happens to my digital music.
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I would say I'm a humanist. I like that. I mean, I don't claim to know anything, but I'm curious about it all. I'm always fascinated when people really fervently believe, because I have such a hard time believing anything.
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There's nothing that the road cannot heal
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I think our music is more about seeing ourselves in each other and trying to find a more humanistic viewpoint for the world.
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I'm kind of like, never say never.
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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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Let the poets cry themselves to sleep, and all their tearful words will turn back into steam.
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Our band is different in the sense that we all are involved with a lot of different projects. It's hard to say when we'll record again, but we're not calling it quits right away.
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I find that moving keeps me optimistic, the idea of what's going to be down the road a bit or around the next bend.
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When you write a song, the goal is not to convey the details of your life. You should write a memoir or something if that's what you're going to do.
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