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Did it all get real? I guess it's real enough
They got refrigerators full of blood
Another century spent pointing guns
At anything that moves
Sometimes I worry that I've lost the plot
My twitching muscles tease my flippant thoughts
I never really dreamed of heaven much
Until we put him in the ground
But it's all I'm doing now
Listening for patterns in the sound
Of an endless static sea
But once the satellite's deceased
It blows like garbage through the streets
Of the night sky to infinity
But don't you weep
(Don't you weep for them)
Don't you weep
(Don't you weep)
There is nothing as lucky
Honey, don't you weep
(Don't you weep for them)
Don't you weep
(Don't you weep)
There is nothing as lucky
As easy
Or free
Don't be a criminal in this police state
You'd better shop and eat and procreate
You've got vacation days, then you might escape
To a condo on the coast
I set my watch to the atomic clock
I hear the crowd count down until the bomb gets dropped
I always figured there'd be time enough
I never let it get me down
But I can't help it now
Looking for faces in the clouds
I've got some friends I barely see
But we're all planning to meet
We'll lay in bags as dead as leaves
All together for eternity
But don't you weep
(Don't you weep for us)
Don't you weep
(Don't you weep)
There is no one as lucky
Honey, don't you weep
(Don't you weep for us)
Don't you weep
(Don't you weep)
There is nothing as lucky
As easy
Or free
Or free
Or free
Or free
There is nothing
There's nothing
There's nothing
They got refrigerators full of blood
Another century spent pointing guns
At anything that moves
Sometimes I worry that I've lost the plot
My twitching muscles tease my flippant thoughts
I never really dreamed of heaven much
Until we put him in the ground
But it's all I'm doing now
Listening for patterns in the sound
Of an endless static sea
But once the satellite's deceased
It blows like garbage through the streets
Of the night sky to infinity
But don't you weep
(Don't you weep for them)
Don't you weep
(Don't you weep)
There is nothing as lucky
Honey, don't you weep
(Don't you weep for them)
Don't you weep
(Don't you weep)
There is nothing as lucky
As easy
Or free
Don't be a criminal in this police state
You'd better shop and eat and procreate
You've got vacation days, then you might escape
To a condo on the coast
I set my watch to the atomic clock
I hear the crowd count down until the bomb gets dropped
I always figured there'd be time enough
I never let it get me down
But I can't help it now
Looking for faces in the clouds
I've got some friends I barely see
But we're all planning to meet
We'll lay in bags as dead as leaves
All together for eternity
But don't you weep
(Don't you weep for us)
Don't you weep
(Don't you weep)
There is no one as lucky
Honey, don't you weep
(Don't you weep for us)
Don't you weep
(Don't you weep)
There is nothing as lucky
As easy
Or free
Or free
Or free
Or free
There is nothing
There's nothing
There's nothing
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"Did it all get real? I guess it's real enough"
"Sometimes I worry that I've lost the plot"
"Listening for patterns in the sound
Of an endless static sea"
"But once the satellite's deceased
It blows like garbage through the streets
Of the night sky to infinity"
Camus suggested three ideals to those facing the absurd, revolt (facing the absurd unflinchingly), freedom (physical freedom from laws and norms) and passion (zest for life)
Freedom seems to be the theme of:
"Don't be a criminal in this police state
You'd better shop and eat and procreate
You've got vacation days, then you might escape
To a condo on the coast
I set my watch to the atomic clock
I hear the crowd count down until the bomb gets dropped"
Obviously, freedom is ignoring these, and passion is replacing them with rewarding experiences.
Others are about death, obviously a large part of absurdism, like:
"I never really dreamed of heaven much
Until we put him in the ground"
"I always figured there'd be time enough
I never let it get me down"
"We'll lay in bags as dead as leaves
All together for eternity"
Finally, the last part of Camus' philosophy is that once you die, nothing you ever did matters. Similarly, the song ends with this:
There is nothing
There's nothing
There's nothing
Of course I don't even think Conor was consciously writing about absurdism, maybe just about life.
If you really think about, ELF lists of all the sad depressing awful things but finishes it with "But don't you weep." Don't lose hope. Don't give up. If nothing else, there's nothing as easy or lucky or free. There's a message of hope resounding throughout DAIADU
In RTJ, "The sun came up with no conclusions." Nothing's solved. It's another day after another day. He's continuing on this Road To Joy but there's no conclusions. I'm wide Awake It's Morning at the end is pessimistic even though that's the album people perceive to be about life and happiness.
Don't be a criminal in this police state- im ordering you not to be a criminal. We are supposed to have the freedom to do what we want but deal with consequences. Here i, hes being sarcastic saying "be a good sheep" POLICE STATE
You'd better shop and eat and procreate- just live your life simply and stay out of the governments way
You've got vacation days, then you might escape To a condo on the coast- either he means you can use that as an excuse to actually disappear or he means that if you're lucky, you'll be able to get to go somewhere.
I set my watch to the atomic clock I hear the crowd count down until the bomb gets dropped- same thing...the worlds destroying itself
I always figured there'd be time enough I never let it get me down- now here's what the whole song is about. He always figured there would be time before the new world order and the end of this world...he always put it off and knew it was true, but he just didn't want to get depressed about it
But I can't help it now- he can't help but think about it now. He is still not depressed about it...that's what the song is about...he's telling his "honey" not to weep. Death is comingg
Looking for faces in the clouds- could be many things. Project blue beam is another conspiracy but they can project things...maybe he is searching for a sign from god
I've got some friends I barely see But we're all planning to meet We'll lay in bags as dead as leaves All together for eternity- and to finish it off...body bags. He don't see his friends much but they are all planning, without really planning, to meet again...maybe not actually meet in death but I think he is just being witty again. The government killing everyone with all the nwo conspiracy stuff. I don't believe in half the things on youtube, but I know for a fact it is just one big game. "Let's not shit ourselves" mentions his beliefs in the media and the conspiracy. A lot of his songs do. Death is the easiest thing...it takes no work. You don't have to work while you're dead. Its free and its lucky because you're truly free from life and the bondage we live in. "You'll be free child once you have died...from the shackles of language and measurable time...and we can trade places, play musical graves.." elliott smith "this is not my life" he was talking about being a pilgrim on this planet. Just stopping by. This song is about death, and all the greed in this world.
But don't you weep (Don't you weep for us) Don't you weep (Don't you weep) There is no one as lucky Honey, don't you weep
I dunno if this is what Conor was going for, but that's what I got out of it. I can see Absurdism in a lot of his songs.
"Refrigerators full of blood" - I always saw it as the advancement of modern medicine. At the start of humanity, everyone was poor and sickly, dying young - now we have people living into their hundreds.
I try to live it by it easy/lucky/free... well that and, "Go Easy, Step Lightly, Stay Free" by The Clash, kinda ironic that they're so similar. Maybe it's just some kind of universal message.
Personally, I think the point he is trying to make is that there is peace in death because it is the end of the question "what happens to me when I die?" As humans that question is so basic to our psychology, since we are concious of our existence in a way that other animals aren't. This same theme is in the whole part about "the instinct of the blind insect who makes love to the flower bed and dies in the first freeze" from I Believe In Symmetry.
I think it's safe to conclude that Conor is atheist and his views on life and death are existential. The beauty of Bright Eyes (and Conor Oberst as a person) is that the lyrics speak not only to what his personal thoughts are, but there is a unique awareness of the human condition in general.
Take the song Method Acting, "I've made peace with the falling leaves. I seem their same fate in my own body." Conor thinks that when you die, that is just it, you're dead. In this song, when he says "we'll lay in bags as dead as leaves, together for eternity" he shows our tendency to romanticize the idea of having all the time in the world with the people we love. Does a dead leaf care about being with the other dead leaves in a pile with it? No, but in life they didn't care either.
Whether you believe in an afterlife or not, dying truly is easy, lucky, and free. If heaven is perfect and your every desire is fulfilled, you don't desire anything. If there is no afterlife, we don't desire anything because we cease to exist. Those of us left on earth have to deal with longing.
I don't think the message of this song is depressing. It is the preoccupation with death that is depressing. Someone at peace with the idea that death is "it" feels lucky for existing and free to give their life meaning. How could life be anything but easy? War, greed, not spending enough time with the people we love, working just so we can get a vacation one day, and other problems exist in life. This song makes me realize how instead of using death (ceasing to exist or moving onto the afterlife) as an escape, we can all take control of the lives we have and progress toward a happier society.