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Bright Eyes lyrics An Attempt To Tip The Scales lyrics Did you expect it all to stop at the wave of your hand Like the sun's just gonna drop if it's night you demand? Well in the dark we're just air So the house might dissolve once we're gone Who's gonna care if we were ever here at all? Well summer's gonna come,it's gonna cloud our eyes again No need to focus when there's nothing that's worth seeing So we trade liquor for blood in an attempt to tip the scales I think you lost what you loved in that mess of details Now you can't even recall any names Faces or lines it's more the feeling of it all Well winter's gonna end I'm gonna clean these veins again So close to dying that I finally can start living "Hi we're back This is Radio [beep] And we're here with Conor Oberst of the band Bright Eyes How are you doing Conor?" "Fine, thanks...just a little wet" "Oh, it's still coming down out there?" "Yeah, I sort of had to run from the car" "Well we are glad you made it Now your new album Fevers and Mirrors tell us a little bit about the title I notice there is a good deal of repeated imagery in the lyrics Fevers mirrors... scales clocks... Could you discuss some of this?" "Sure let's see... The fever is..." "First let me say that this is a brilliant record man We're all really into it here at the station We get lots of calls It's really good stuff" "Thanks,thanks a lot" "So talk a little bit about some of the symbolism" "The fever?" "Sure" "Well the fever is basically whatever ails you or oppresses you It could be anything In my case it's my neurosis my depression... But I don't want it to be limited to that It's certainly different for different people It's whatever keeps you up at night" "I see!" "And the mirror is as you might have guessed Self examination or reflection in whatever form It could be vanity or self loathing I know I'm guilty of both" "That's interesting. How about the scale?" "The scale is essentially our attempt to solve our problems quantitatively Through logic or rationalization In my opinion it's often fruitless But always... well not always The clocks and calendars it's just... time Our little measurements It's always chasing after us" "It is it is... How about this Arienette? How does she fit into all of this?" "I'd prefer not talk about it in case she's listening" "Oh I'm sorry I didn't realize she was a real person" "She's not I made her up" "Oh, so she's not real?" "Just as real as you or I" "I don't think I understand" "Neither do I but after I grow up I will I mean a lot of things are really unclear for me right now" "That's interesting Now you mentioned your depression" "No, I didn't" "You're from Nebraska, right?" "Yeah, so?" "Now let me know if I'm getting too personal But there seems to be a pretty dark past back there somewhere What was it like for you growing up?" "Dark? Not really Actually I had a great childhood My parents were wonderful. I went to a Catholic school They had one so it... was all easy Basically I had everything I wanted anytime" "Really? So some of the references like babies in bathtubs are not biographical?" "Well, I did have a brother who died in a bathtub... drowned Actually I had five brothers who died that way No I'm serious My mother drowned one every year for five consecutive years They were all named Padraic So they all got one song It's kind of like walking out a door to discover it's a window" "But a lot of your music is certainly very personal" "Of course I put a lot of myself into what I do But it's like being an author You have to free yourself to use symbolism And allegory to reach your goal And a part of that is compassion and empathy For other people and their situations Some of what I sing about comes from other people's experiences as well as my own It shouldn't matter the message is intended to be universal" "I see what you mean" "Can you make that sound stop please?" "Yes. And your goal?" "I don't know... Er create feelings I guess A song it never ends up the way you planned it" "It's funny you would say that do you think that...?" "Do you ever hear things that aren't really there?" "I'm sorry, what?" "Never mind. How long have you worked at this station?" "Just a few minutes Now you mentioned empathy for others Would you say that is what motivates you to make the music that you make?" "No not really It's more a need for sympathy I want people to feel sorry for me I like to feel the burn of the audiences eyes on me when I'm whispering all my darkest secrets into the microphone When I was a kid I used to carry this safety pin around with me Everywhere I went in my pocket and when people weren't paying enough attention to me I'd dig it into my arm until I started to cry Everyone would stop what they were doing and ask me what was the matter I guess I kind of liked that" "Really? You're telling me you're doing all this for attention?" "No I hate it when people look at me I get nauseous In fact I could care less what people think about me Do you feel that way?" "No, I'm feeling sick" "I really just want to be warm yellow light that pours all over everyone I love" "So, you're going to play something for us now Is this a new song?" "Yeah, but I haven't written it yet It's one I've been meaning to write... called A Song to Pass the Time" "Oh, that's a nice title" "No, it's not You should write your own scripts" "Yeah, I know..." Other Bright Eyes lyrics: Away In A Manger lyrics Blue Christmas lyrics Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas lyrics Oh Little Town Of Bethlehem lyrics The First Noel lyrics The Night Before Christmas lyrics White Christmas lyrics Arc Of Time lyrics Devil In The Details lyrics Down In A Rabbit Hole lyrics Gold Mine Gutted lyrics Hit The Switch lyrics I Believe In Symmetry lyrics Light Pollution lyrics Ship In A Bottle lyrics Take It Easy (love Nothing) lyrics Theme From Pinata lyrics A Scale, A Mirror And Those Indifferent Clocks lyrics A Song To Pass The Time lyrics A Spindle, A Darkness, A Fever And A Necklace lyrics Arienette lyrics Haligh, Haligh, A Lie, Haligh lyrics Something Vague lyrics Sunrise, Sunset lyrics The Calendar Hung Itself lyrics The Center Of The World lyrics When The Curious Girl Realizes She Is Under Glass lyrics The Movement Of A Hand lyrics Another Travelin' Song lyrics At The Bottom Of Everything lyrics First Day Of My Life lyrics I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning (road To Joy) lyrics Lua lyrics Old Soul Song (for The New World Order) lyrics Poison Oak lyrics Train Under Water lyrics We Are Nowhere And It's Now lyrics Bowl Of Oranges lyrics Don't Know When But A Day Is Gonna Come lyrics False Advertising lyrics From A Balance Beam lyrics Laura Laurent lyrics Let's Not Shit Ourselves (to Love And To Be Loved) lyrics Lover I Don't Have To Love lyrics Make War lyrics Method Acting lyrics Nothing Gets Crossed Out lyrics The Big Picture lyrics Waste Of Paint lyrics You Will.you? 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