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The City Has Sex

from Letting off the Happiness by Bright Eyes

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The city has sex with itself I suppose as the concrete collides, the scenery grows, and the lonely
once bandaged lay fully exposed having undressed their wounds for each other. And there is a
boy in a basement with a four-track machine, he’s been strumming and screaming all night, down
there. The tape hiss will cover the words that he sings, but then they say it’s better to bury your
sadness in a graveyard or garden that waits for the spring to awake from its sleep and burst into
green. And I’ve cried, and you would think I would be better for it but the sadness just sleeps and
it stays in your spine for the rest of your life. And I’ve learned and you’d think I’d be something
more now, but it just goes to show it is not what you know it’s what you were thinking at the time.
This feeling’s familiar, I’ve been here before. In a kitchen this quiet I waited for a sign or just
something that might reassure me of anything close to meaning or motion (with a reason to move).
I need something I want to be close to. And I scream, but I still don’t know why I do it, because
the sound never stays it just swells and decays, so what is the point? Why try to fight what is now
so certain? The truth is all that I am is a passing event that will be forgotten.

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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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