Bright Eyes - Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground
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Album Review
Release date: 13 August 2002
Bright Eyes : Lifted Or The Story Is In The Soil, Keep Your Ear To The Ground
...untrustworthy, confused, touching and idiotically ambitious...
How much does Conor Oberst really suffer for his art? When this compelling, self-conscious and exceptionally long album ends, it's hard to tell what Oberst, 22 years old and Bright Eyes ' unsteady pivot, actually feels. Is this country emo or student theatre? A grand, wracked emotional struggle or just the creative appropriation of other people's misery? And does it matter...
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- The Big Picture
- Method Acting
- False Advertising
- You Will. You? Will. You? Will. You? Will.
- Lover I Don't Have to Love
- Bowl of Oranges
- Don't Know When But a Day Is Gonna Come
- Nothing Gets Crossed Out
- Make War
- Waste of Paint
- From a Balance Beam
- Laura Laurent
- Let's Not Shit Ourselves (To Love and to Be Loved)
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Bright Eyes - Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground Lyrics
Bright Eyes - Lover I Don't Have to Love Lyrics
I picked you out
Of a crowd and talked to you
I said, "I like your shoes"
You said, "Thanks can I follow you?"
Bright Eyes - From a Balance Beam Lyrics
There is a man holding a megaphone
He must have been the voice of God
The bystanders claimed they saw Angels
Flying up and down the block
Bright Eyes - Waste of Paint Lyrics
I have a friend, he is made mostly of pain
And he wakes up, drives to work, and then straight back home again
He once cut one of my nightmares out of paper
Well, I thought it was beautiful, I put it on a record cover
Bright Eyes - Make War Lyrics
Our love is dead but without limit
Like the surface of the moon
Or the land between here and the mountains
Well, it is not these hiding places that have kept us innocent
Bright Eyes - Nothing Gets Crossed Out Lyrics
Well, the future's got me worried
Such awful thoughts
My head's a carousel of pictures
The spinning never stops
Bright Eyes - Don't Know When But a Day is Gonna Come Lyrics
Was is it true what I heard about the Son of God?
Did He come to save? Did He come at all?
And if I dried His feet, with my dirty hair
Would He make me clean again?
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Bright Eyes - Bowl Of Oranges Lyrics
The rain, it started tappin' on the window near my bed
There was a loophole in my dreamin', so I got out of it
And to my surprise my eyes were wide and already open
Just my nightstand and my dresser where those nightmares had just been
Bright Eyes - You WillYou? WillYou? WillYou? Will Lyrics
Well, you say that I treat you like a book on a shelf
I don't take you out that often
'Cause I know that I completed you
And that's why you are here
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Bright Eyes - Method Acting Lyrics
There is no beginning to the story, a bookshelf sinks into the sand
And a language learned and forgot, in turn is studied once again
It's a shocking bit of footage viewed from a shitty TV screen
You can squint at it through snowy static to make out the meaning
Bright Eyes - The Big Picture Lyrics
The picture is far too big to look at kid
Your eyes won't open wide enough
And you are constantly surrounded
By the swirling stream of what is and what was
Bright Eyes - Lets Not Shit Ourselves Lyrics
Here we go
Can I get a goddamn timpany roll to start this goddamn song?
Tonight, it is a goddamn song
For all you goddamn people
Bright Eyes - False Advertising Lyrics
On a string
On a string
On a string, I was held the way I move, can you tell?
Bright Eyes - Laura Laurent Lyrics
Laura, are you still livin' there on your estate of sorrow?
You used to leave it occasionally, but now you don't even bother
To ride the commuter train West to Chicago
To stroll through the greenery in the park past the statues
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