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A Poetic Retelling of an Unfortunate Seduction

from Letting off the Happiness by Bright Eyes

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the language in the dimmer rooms seems to represent its light source well. How soft they speak
and seem to be at peace with the music and the madness that is pulling me in to this. And the
shades of the lamps are woven red. The light, it stains and consecrates anointing all forgotten
forms that swirl and smoke and haunt this place. The girls in gowns all nurse the dark, pulling it
near to their swelling breasts and watch as it seeps to their hearts and beats within their virgin
chests. And here I know seduction breads from wanton hearts that would seduce and grows and
spreads its vine and leaves embracing those who might have moved but now remain to drink the
night from vials black and thick with steam such intoxicating delights would leave you drunk inside
this dream. And you watch them take the light from you. And you find yourself on a velvet couch
tasting the skin of a foreign girl. Her eyes are black and wet like oil and she ties your hands with a
string of pearls. And you tremble like a frightened bird as she closes in and captures you to place
you in a silver cage deep within her poisoned womb. So once your safe inside, she might let you
out to fly in circles around the room. But its always night and there is no moon. And you wonder
if you are alive. And you’re not sure if you want to be. But you drink her sweat like it was wine,
and you lay with her on a bed of blue and its awful sweet like the fruit she cuts and feeds to you.

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from Letting off the Happiness, released November 2, 1998

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Bright Eyes are the Omaha, Nebraska based band consisting of Conor Oberst, Mike Mogis, and Nathaniel Walcott.

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