Bright Eyes - Let's Not Shit Ourselves (To Love and Be Loved)
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2010-11-20に共有
Well, the animals laugh from the dark of the wilderness.
A baby cries hard in an apartment complex,
as I pass in a car buried under the influence.
The city's driving me out of my mind.
I've seen a child is caught in the sad trap of gravity.
He falls from the lowest branch of the apple tree
and lands in the grass and weeps for his dignity.
Next time he will not aim so high.
Yeah, next time, neither will I.
Now a mother takes loans out, sends her kids off to colleges.
Her family's reduced to names on a shopping list.
While, a coroner kneels beneath a great, wooden crucifix.
He knows there's worse things than being alone.
And so I've learned to retreat at the first sign of danger.
I mean, why wait around, if it's just to surrender?
An ambition, I've found, can lead only to failure.
I do not read the reviews.
No, I am not singing for you.
Well I stood dropping a coin into the pit of a well.
And I would throw my whole billfold if I thought it would help.
With all these wishes I make,
I should buy something real, at least a telephone call home.
Well, my teachers, they built this retaining wall of memory,
all those multiple choices I answered so quickly.
And got my grades back and forgot just as easily,
but as least I got an A.
And so I don't have them to blame.
Well I should stop pointing fingers;
reserve my judgment of all those public action figures,
the cowboy presidents.
So loud behind the bullhorn, so proud they can't admit
when they've made a mistake.
While poison ink spews from a speechwriter's pen,
he knows he don't have to say it,
so it, it don't bother him.
"Honesty", "Accuracy" is just "Popular Opinion."
And the approval rating's high,
and so someone's gonna die.
Well ABC, NBC, CBS: Bullshit.
They give us fact or fiction? I guess an even split.
And each new act of war is tonight's entertainment.
We're still the pawns in their game.
As they take eye for an eye until no one can see,
we must stumble blindly forward, repeating history.
Well, I guess we all fit into your slogan
on the fast food marquee:
Red blooded, White skinned oh and the Blues.
Oh and the Blues, I got the Blues! That's me! That's me!
Well, I awoke in relief.
My sheets and tubes were all tangled weak from whiskey and pills,
in a Chicago hospital.
And my father was there, in a chair, by the window, staring so far away.
I tried talking, just whispered, "...so sorry...so selfish..."
He stopped me and said, "Child I love you regardless
and there's nothing you could do that would ever change this.
I'm not angry. It happens. But you just can't do it again."
So now I try to keep up, I've been exchanging my currency.
While a million objects pass through my periphery.
Now I'm rubbing my eyes 'cause they're starting to bother me.
I've been staring too long at the screen.
But where was it when I first heard a sweet sound of humility?
It came to my ears in the goddamn loveliest melody.
How grateful I was then to be part of the mystery,
to love and to be loved. Let's just hope that is enough.
コメント (21)
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This is one of the few songs ever written that Bob Dylan has said, "Damn, Can't believe I didn't think of this."
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I once spent an entire morning listening to this song on repeat through New Jersey Transit and the New York subway and then walking around aimlessly on Roosevelt Island taking in the sites, just thinking about things. One of the most surreal days of my life.
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One of the greatest lyricists to ever exist. Conor has helped me cope with the loneliness of being human more than any other artist.
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God damnit.. .why didn't I know about this when I was a teenager. They should just give this album to you when you turn 15 "Here, you're gonna want this kid."
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the fact that Conor wrote a song about 'fake news' in 2002...feels so relevant in 2020
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12 years later, this whole album is still amazing.
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Somebody please get this guy a timpani roll.
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Listen to these lyrics. Really listen to them. Actually, look them up and read them as you listen. Let them sink in. This is a brilliant song.
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"But where was it when I first heard a sweet sound of humility? It came to my ears in the goddamn loveliest melody. How grateful I was then to be part of the mystery, to love and to be loved. Let's just hope that is enough."
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“Ambition, I’ve found, can only lead to failure” — a lyric that has resonated with me for well over a decade.
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The bit about waking up in hospital with the dad looking over him really strikes a cord... i was enjoying the song already and then was like; holy shit he just described my life
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They don't write indie songs like this anymore.
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I listen to this song every night before I go to sleep since two years ago and I'm still not over it
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18 yrs later and this album is STILL AMAZING!
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God I love bright eyes. I've always loved this song. I can listen to it a million times a day and it will always remain as powerful as the first time I heard it. The lyrics. The music. The singing. Incredible.
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These are those kinds of songs you wanna put in a picturesque, cinematographic romance flick that focuses on the pain and the reality of pain instead of sugarcoated notions about love.
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God, what an incredible song. I love how the general criticism mixes with personal issues.
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i wish i could get this entire song tatoo'd on my body.
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"Hi Conorrrr, its Timmmyyyy...just hoping we were gonna record that song tomorrow.." -Voicemail from Tim Kasher to Conor toward the end of the song. So great haha
