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Green world, love the chloroform.
Front porch in the thunderstorm.
Controlled chaos, confused energy.
So stop reading the weather charts.
Stop counting the playing cards.
There's no system, there's no guarantee
That the love you feel and carry inside can be passed.
But you try, I know you do you still talk
To your plans.
Ask how are you getting on alone?
Some wander the wilderness,
Some drink cosmopolitans.
Some cold science, some glean astro-planes.
I can't tell where the canvas stops,
Homesick as an astronaut.
Just keep drifting, but still can't explain.
How the love we feel we carry inside can be passed.
See a brother in the gutter you reach out your hand.
Ask how are you getting on alone?
What gauge measures miracles?
And whose heartbeat's electrical?
We feign sickness with our modern joy.
But even Western medicine,
It couldn't save Danny Callahan.
Bad bone marrow, a bald little boy.
But the love he feels he carries inside can be passed.
He lay still,
His mother kissed him goodbye, said 'comeback.'
Where are you going to alone?
Where are you going all alone?
Front porch in the thunderstorm.
Controlled chaos, confused energy.
So stop reading the weather charts.
Stop counting the playing cards.
There's no system, there's no guarantee
That the love you feel and carry inside can be passed.
But you try, I know you do you still talk
To your plans.
Ask how are you getting on alone?
Some wander the wilderness,
Some drink cosmopolitans.
Some cold science, some glean astro-planes.
I can't tell where the canvas stops,
Homesick as an astronaut.
Just keep drifting, but still can't explain.
How the love we feel we carry inside can be passed.
See a brother in the gutter you reach out your hand.
Ask how are you getting on alone?
What gauge measures miracles?
And whose heartbeat's electrical?
We feign sickness with our modern joy.
But even Western medicine,
It couldn't save Danny Callahan.
Bad bone marrow, a bald little boy.
But the love he feels he carries inside can be passed.
He lay still,
His mother kissed him goodbye, said 'comeback.'
Where are you going to alone?
Where are you going all alone?
Lyrics submitted by lovenothing__
Track duration: 03:58
"Danny Callahan" as written by Conor Oberst
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Love can be passed, I'm sure of it. My friend, even while she was dying, saw joy in the world and beauty in every person. She showed nothing but kindness and loved everyone. She may be gone but I don't go a day without thinking of her and I try to make sure she didn't live and die in vain by making a commitment to spread love as she would. Her love for everyone changed me.
Thank you, Conor, for writing something so beautiful.
"But the love he feels he carries inside can be passed
He lay still his mother kissed him goodbye Said, 'Come back, where are you going to alone?'"
this song has so much content within it, he is talking about how this life is so controlled by our western culture and that no matter how hard we want to control our life, somethings are enivitablities, that not even our western society can control " even western medicine couldn't save danny callahan"
Conor also talks about the injustices of our society and how insubordinate this world can be and how anything that once was is lost "See a brother in the gutter, you reach out your hand
Ask how are you getting on alone" this doesn't happen anymore we someone in the street we avoid them or treat them as second grade citizens whereas they should be equal
He also has alot of references to the scriptures, as he grew up in a catholic family, he has content in his songs that reflect on how he was raised.
Awesome song!! LOVE IT
sorry if i wrote too much, just had to throw in my 2 cents!