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 Interesting Questions, Facts, and Information
 Bright Eyes
| Okay, here's a tough one to leave you with.
"And language just happened, it was never planned,
and it's inadequate to describe where I am..."
What song is this lyric from? | Bright Eyes Lyrics
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A Scale, a Mirror and Those Indifferent Clocks. From the album "Fevers and Mirrors".
I hope you enjoyed my quiz. I certainly enjoyed making it.
| What song is this lyric from?
"So the street filled, like a basin, up with cameras and their crews.
And they washed away the rumors leaving just the concrete truth..." | Bright Eyes Lyrics
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From a Balance Beam. From the album "Lifted".
Oberst's other efforts include Commander Venus, a band he joined in 1994 when he was only fourteen, and Desaparecidos, another Saddle Creek band that is more energetic and punk than Bright Eyes.
| What song is this lyric from?
"There is someone looking for what I've concealed
in my secret drawer, in my pockets deep..." | Bright Eyes Lyrics
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A Song to Pass the Time. From the album "Fevers and Mirrors".
| What song is this lyric from?
"There's kids playing guns in the street,
and one's pointing his tree branch at me..." | Bright Eyes Lyrics
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One Foot in Front of the Other (Landlocked Blues). From the "Saddle Creek 50" compilation CD.
As opposed to a traditional band, Bright Eyes is more of a collective of musicians from various Saddle Creek acts. Different cd's feature different musicians, with Conor Oberst as the only constant.
| What song is this lyric from?
"So that's how I learned the lesson that everyone's alone,
and your eyes must do some raining if you're ever going to grow..."
| Bright Eyes Lyrics
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Bowl of Oranges. From the album "Lifted".
| What song is this lyric from?
"I'll give you only one reply:
I know not who I am..." | Bright Eyes Lyrics
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Haligh, Haligh, A Lie, Haligh. From the album "Fevers and Mirrors".
Other bands signed on Saddle Creek Records include Cursive, Rilo Kiley, Sorry About Dresden, and Now It's Overhead.
| What song is this lyric from?
"I've got the money if you've got the time.
He said it feels good I said I'll give it a try..." | Bright Eyes Lyrics
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Lover I Don't Have to Love. From the album "Lifted, Or the Story is in the Soil Keep Your Ear to the Ground".
| What song is this lyric from?
"And I've cried, and you'd think I'd be better for it,
but the sadness just sleeps and it stays in your spine
for the rest of your life..." | Bright Eyes Lyrics
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The City Has Sex. From the album "Letting Off the Happiness".
Bright Eyes is signed to the independent label Saddle Creek Records, based in Omaha, Nebraska.
| What song is this lyric from?
"And I kissed a girl with a broken jaw
that her father gave to her..." | Bright Eyes Lyrics
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The Calendar Hung Itself. From the album "Fevers and Mirrors".
| What song is this lyric from?
"I believe that lovers should be chained together
and thrown into a fire with their songs and letters..."
| Bright Eyes Lyrics
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A Perfect Sonnet. From the "Every Day and Every Night" EP.
Bright Eyes is headed by Conor Oberst, a prodigy from Omaha, Nebraska who has been recording since he was thirteen.
Zack Nipper. ZACK NIPPER ALBUM ARTWORK
Bright Eyes - "Lua"...Artwork, Lettering
Bright Eyes - "There Is No Beginning to the Story"...Scenery
Desaparecidos - "Read Music/Speak Spanish"...Artwork
Bright Eyes - "Every Day and Every Night"...Art Direction
Bright Eyes - "Fevers & Mirrors"...Design
Poison Oak. After Commander Venus disbanded in 1997, Oberst and some friends started a new project--Park Ave.--with the intention of writing pop music. Oberst decided to learn to play drums, and Clark Baechle, the drummer from The Faint, joined up to learn how to play guitar. They asked three girlfriends to help round out the lineup on vocals, bass and keyboards. None of them knew how to play their instruments either. Park Ave. released a split 7" with The Wrens, had two songs on a Saddle Creek sampler CD, and put out a full-length of four-track recordings as well. When one of its members moved to London, Park Ave. broke up.
So there was this woman and she was on an airplane, and she was flying to meet her fiancé seaming high above the largest ocean on planet Earth. I've listened to this cd so many times that I've memerized the intro...here it goes, completely from memory.."So there was this woman and she was on an airplane, and she was flying to meet her fiancé seaming high above the largest ocean on planet Earth. She was seated next to this man who she had tried to start conversations, but the only thing she had really heard him say was to order his Bloody Mary. She was sitting there and she was reading this really arduous magazine article about a third world country that she couldn't even pronounce the name of. And she was feeling very bored and despondent. And then suddenly there was this huge mechanical failure and one of the engines gave out, and they started just falling from thirty-thousand feet, and the pilot's on the microphone and he's saying 'I'm sorry, I'm sorry, oh my god, I'm sorry' and apologizing. And she looks at the man and says 'Where are we going?' and he looks at her and he says 'We're going to a party. It's a birthday party. It's your birthday party. Happy birthday darlin. We love you very, very, very, very, very, very, very much.' And then he starts humming this little tune, it goes something like this: 1, 2, 1, 2, 3, 4" -wow, I have way too much free time.
Road to Joy. At fourteen years of age, Oberst was singer and guitarist of Commander Venus, an indie rock band, in 1994. The former members of Commander Venus, Ben Armstrong, Robb Nansel (who now runs Saddle Creek) and Todd Baechle of The Faint, would later go on to feature in many Saddle Creek recording groups.
Saddle Creek. Artists on Saddle Creek include Cursive, Desaparecidos, The Faint, Rilo Kiley, Bright Eyes, Son Ambulance, Azure Ray, The Good Life, and Sorry About Dresden, among others.
Emmylou Harris. Emmylou Harris (born April 2, 1947) is a country music singer, songwriter and musician from Birmingham, Alabama, USA.
| What song is this lyric from? "So I will find my fears and face them, or I will cower like a dog. I will kick and scream or kneel and plead. I'll fight like hell to hide that I've given up." | "I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning"- Bright Eyes
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Another Travelin' Song. "Rolling Stone" magazine has called Oberst "rock's boy genius".
Conor Oberst. Conor Oberst was born in 1980 and has been recording songs since he was 13!
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