Bright Eyes is an indie rock band consisting mainly of American singer, guitarist, and songwriter Conor Oberst. Bright Eyes also features multi-instrumentalist/producer Mike Mogis, keyboard player Nate Walcott and a rotating lineup of collaborators drawn primarily from Omaha, Nebraska, United States' indie music scene. Having been deeply influenced early on by singer-songwriters David Dondero and Simon Joyner, Conor Oberst has been recording music since the age of 13.
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CG The rain it started tappin, on the window near my bed
DmG There was a loophole in my dreamin, so I got out of it
AmF And to my surprise my eyes were wide and already open
DmG To my nightstand and my dresser where those nightmares had just been
CG So I dressed myself and left them, out into the grey streets
DmG But everything seemed different, completely new to me
AmF The sky, the trees, houses, buildings, even my own body
DmG And each person I encountered, I couldn’t wait to meet
CG And I came upon a doctor, who appeared in quite poor health
DmG I said there’s nothing that I can do for you that you can’t do for yourself
AmF He said “Oh yes you can just hold my hand, I think that that would help”
DmG So I sat with him a while, and I asked him how he felt
He said "I think I'm cured. In fact I'm sure. Thank you stranger,
G for your therapeutic smile."
Interlude: CGDmGAmFG
CG So that’s how I learned the lesson, that everyone’s alone
DmG And eyes must do some raining, if you’re ever gonna grow
AmF And when cryin don’t help, you can’t compose yourself it’s best to compose a poem
DmG An honest Verse of longing, or a simple song of hope
CG That’s why I’m singin’ baby don’t worry, cause now I got you back
DmG And every time you feel like crying, I’m gonna try and make you laugh
AmF And if I can’t, if it just hurts too bad, then we’ll wait for it to pass
DmG And I will keep you company, for those days so long and black
CG And we’ll keep working on the problem, that no one ever solved
DmG Of love’s uneven remainders, our lives are fractions of a whole
AmF But if the world could remain within a frame, like a painting on a wall
DmG Then I think we’d see the beauty and, we’d stand staring in awe
At our still lives posed, like a bowl of oranges
Like a story told, of fault lines, and soul, ohh, ohh