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Bright Eyes
Bright Eyes


Background information
Origin Omaha, Nebraska, United States
Genre(s) Indie Folk
Indie Rock
Alternative Country
Years active 1995—present
Label(s) Polydor
Saddle Creek Records
Associated acts Monsters of Folk
Desaparecidos
Commander Venus
The Faint
Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band
Website Website
Members
Conor Oberst
Mike Mogis
Nate Walcott



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Bright Eyes Lyrics

"The Big Picture" lyrics



The picture's far too big to look at kid, your eyes won't open wide enough and
you're constantly surrounded by the swirling stream of what is and what was.
Well we all make our predictions but the truth still isn't out. But if you wanna
see the future go stare into a cloud.
Keep trying to find your way out of that maze of memories, it all sort of looks
familiar until you get up close then it's different clearly. But each time you
turn a corner, you're right back where you were and your only hope is that
forgetting might make a door appear.

Well is it your fear of being buried that makes you so afraid to speak? An
avalanche of opinions like the one that fell that I'm now underneath, it was my
voice that moved the first rock and I would do it all again. So I mean it's cool
if you keep quiet but I like singing.

So I'll be holding my note, stomping and strumming and feeling so very lucky.
There is nothing I know except this lifetime's one moment and wishing will just
leave me empty.

So you can try and live in darkness but you will never shake the light, no it
will greet you every morning and make you more aware with its absence at night
when you're wrapped up in your blankets baby, the comfortable cocoon. But I've
seen the day of your awakening boy and it's coming soon.

So go ahead and lose yourself in liquor and you can praise the clouded mind but
it isn't what you're thinking, it's the course of history, your position in
line. You're just a piece of the puzzle, so I think you better find your place
and don't go blaming your knowledge on some fruit you ate.

Cause there's been a great deal of discussion about the properties of man.
Animal or angel? You were carved from bone but your heart is just sand and the
wind is gonna scatter it and cover everything with love. So if it makes you
happy then keep kneeling mama but I'm standing up.

Because this veil it has been lifted, my eyes are wet with clarity. I've been a
witness to such wonders, I searched for them all across this country but I think
I'll be returning now to that town where I was born. Now I understand you must
keep moving friend but I'm headed home.

Yeah I'm gonna follow the road and let the scenery sweeping by easily enter my
body. Now I'll send you all this message in code, underground, over mountains,
through forests and deserts and cities. All across electric wire, it's a baited
line, the hooks in deep boys, there's no more time. So you can struggle in the

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