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The Difference in the Shades

from Letting off the Happiness by Bright Eyes

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jonser This track transports me to a different time . It makes me sad and happy simultaneously. It's like I die a little everytime I hear Conor say , " I find tht life is easier , when its just a blur, with no details to recount. "Well said my friend ...
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Now that it’s June, we’ll sleep out in the garden. And if it rains, we’ll just sink in to the mud.
Where it is quiet and much cooler than the house is and there is no clocks or phones to wake us
up. Because I have learned that nothing is as pressing as the one who is pressing would like you
to believe. And I am content to walk a little slower, because there is nowhere that I really need to
be. I find that life is easier when it is just a blur, with no details to confuse who or what or where I
was, so when the ending comes the full regret will be obscure. But these are days we dream about
when the sunlight paints us gold, and this apartment could not be prettier as we danced up there
alone. This TV is old, the color is fucked, do you see the difference in the shades? But the green
is still close to green, my love, and I believe that we are the same. And we’ll stay like this, all gold
and green; the light collects and projects your heart on a movie screen. And if you close your eyes
we will always be the way we were that night you crawled inside of me. And you slept in my blood
the way you sleep now. The quietist hush has consumed this house and when doctors have gone
and you sweat through the bed with all these pictures and pills that they piled around your head.
Just rest now, and in a moment you will know everything. Was it just a dream? It’s too vague
now to recount. An outline of the one you loved in a life that was that no longer will be stands
above you as you sleep.

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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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