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June on the West Coast

from Letting off the Happiness by Bright Eyes

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I spent a week drinking the sunlight of Winnetka, California where they understand the weight of
human hearts. You see sorrow gets too heavy and joy it tends to hold you with the fear that it
eventually departs. And the truth is I’ve been dreaming of some tired tranquil place where the
weather won’t get trapped inside my bones, and if all the years of searching find one sympathetic
face, then its there I will plant these seeds and make my home. I spent a day dreaming of dying in
Mesa, Arizona where all the green of life had turned to ash. And I felt I was on fire, with the things
I could have told you, I guess I just assumed that you eventually would ask, and I wouldn’t have to
bring up my so badly broken heart, and all those months it just wanted to sleep. And though
spring, it did come slowly, I guess it did its part. My heart has thawed and continues to beat. I
visited my brother on the outskirts of Olympia where the forest and the water become one. And we
talked about our childhood, like a dream we were convinced of, that perfect peaceful street that we
came from. And I know he heard me strumming all those sad and simple chords, as I sat inside
my room so long ago. And it hurts that he’s still shaking from those secrets that were told by a car
closed up airtight and a heart turned cold. And I went to San Diego, the birthplace of the summer,
and watched the ocean dance under the moon. And there was a girl I knew there, one more
potential lover, I guess that something’s got to happen soon. Because I know I can’t keep living in
this dead or dying dream and as I watched along the beach and drank with her I thought about my
true love, the one I really need. With eyes that burn so bright, they make me pure. They make me
pure. They make me pure. I long to be with 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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