metaphorically speaking, volume 2: Bright Eyes

This second installment of metaphorically speaking will just focus on Bright Eyes, because Conor's writing is just that fuckin' good...

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Wish i knew someone named June to dedicate this one to...

well spring, it did come slowly, but i guess it did its part.
my heart has thawed and continues to beat
-- June on the West Coast, live at Bonnarroo 2006 [listen expired] [album]

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This song makes me think too much, which i don't always like to do. I play it too often anyway, but some day i'll stop.

And so I raise my glass to symmetry
To the second hand and its accuracy
To the actual size of everything
The desert is the sand
You can't hold it in your hand
It won't bow to your demands
-- I Believe in Symmetry, Bright Eyes [listen expired] [album]

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I never really understood this song until i heard Bright Eyes play it live last summer. I could have cried right there on the spot. It's weird how personal the songs become when you get to see the musician sing it.

Well you say that I treat you like a book on a shelf
I don't take you out that often 'cause I know that I completed you
and that's why you are here
That's the reason you stay here
How awful that must feel
-- You Will. You? Will. You? Will. You? Will. Bright Eyes [listen expired] [album]

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