Bright Eyes - There Is No Beginning to the Story

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Album Review

Release date: 14 May 2002

Bright Eyes - There Is No Beginning to the Story

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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  1. From a Balance Beam
  2. Messenger Bird's Song
  3. We Are Free Men
  4. Loose Leaves
  5. Untitled
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Bright Eyes - There Is No Beginning to the Story Lyrics

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

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Bright Eyes - Messenger Bird's Song Lyrics

The kitchen is cold
But the coffee is warm
And the suns coming up
The day has just begun

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Bright Eyes - We Are Free Men Lyrics

Well, the future spills it's intangibles
An unknown set of variables
A path that spliten infinitely up ahead

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Bright Eyes - Loose Leaves Lyrics

There are stories in the soil, loose leaves cover the ground
There's volumes in the forest, no one reads out loud
If I could take them down off of that mountain shelf
We used to climb but no one tries to go up that far now, yeah

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