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Why are you scared to dream of god when it's salvation that you want?
Conor Oberst
God
Dream
Salvation
Want
Let the poets cry themselves to sleep, and all their tearful words will turn back into steam.
Conor Oberst
Poets
Sleep
Will
Words
When everything is lonely I can be my best friend.
Conor Oberst
Friend
Lonely
They say it's better to bury your sadness in a graveyard or garden that waits for the spring to wake from its sleep and burst into green.
Conor Oberst
Garden
Sadness
Sleep
Spring
There's all body types, but there's just one size.
Conor Oberst
Body
Screaming is bad for the voice, but it's good for the heart.
Conor Oberst
Heart
Voice
Now I believe that lovers should be draped in flowers and laid entwined together on a bed of clover and left there to sleep, left there to dream of their happiness.
Conor Oberst
Happiness
Dream
Bed
Flowers
Lovers
Now
Sleep
We must memorize nine numbers and deny we have a soul.
Conor Oberst
Soul
Numbers
Love's an excuse to get hurt.
Conor Oberst
Love
Hurt
If the world could remain within a frame like a painting on the wall, I think we'd see the beauty then and stand staring in awe.
Conor Oberst
Beauty
Painting
World
I've cried, and you'd think I'd be better for it, but the sadness just sleeps, and it stays in my spine the rest of my life.
Conor Oberst
Life
Rest
Sadness
I really just want to be warm yellow light that pours over everyone I love.
Conor Oberst
Love
Light
Want
I like to feel the burn of the audience's eyes when I'm whispering all my darkest secrets into the microphone.
Conor Oberst
Eyes
Secrets
I know a girl who cries when she practices violin because each note sounds so pure it just cuts into her, and then the melody comes pouring out her eyes. Now, to me, everything else just sounds like a lie.
Conor Oberst
Lie
Eyes
Now
No lies, just love.
Conor Oberst
Love
Lies