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[nyxtalksmusic]

He says, "Death will give us back to God Just like the setting sun Is returned to the lonesome ocean"

[mylandlockedblues]

I’ve heard people say they’d give anything to hear their favorite songs for the first time again, but I think it’s even better to rediscover a song you once loved but forgot about, and fall back in love. This was my profound experience when I re-listened to “I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning,” but especially the song “Land Locked Blues.�� Perhaps this is because it was the first song that ever really stood out to me, at seven or eight-years-old, strapped into a carseat in the back of my parents’ car. I was a kid, I couldn’t understand much of it—I didn’t know what a “liquid cure” was, or that America was at war with Iraq, or what makes a person need to run away—but it made an impression on me. Maybe then, it was only a vague awakening to the fact that growing up doesn't mean having everything figured out, or that there was some part of me where that permanent sense of restlessness and loneliness was already forming. Whatever it was that first stood out to me, from that moment on, the images conjured up by Conor's bleakly beautiful metaphors and poetry occupied some corner of my mind. But it would be years before I would hear the song again.

I was sixteen when I rediscovered Bright Eyes, and heard “Land Locked Blues” again for the first time since I was a kid. That day, I saw my life through two lenses, the first belonging to my childhood self, who was just learning about the world, and the other looking back on the years that had passed since then in light of the words of a songwriting prodigy who, perhaps, I was not so different from. “Land Locked Blues” is a song about searching—searching for a better time, a better place, a better life. It’s about cycling through people and ideas and versions of yourself only to find that you are still no happier than you were before. It is the feeling of helplessness that comes from loving and living in a world that at times seems evil. I was at a crossroads when I rediscovered this song; the paths that laid before me all seemed equally miserable, and I was desperate to flee from my life, my mistakes, and the person I had become. In 5 minutes and 48 seconds, Conor put words to the pain I had been building up over the course of my life. 

Fast forward to today, and my love for Bright Eyes seems prophetic. My whole life I wanted to get out of Minnesota and the Midwest to somewhere more alive. But my every attempt to escape has only drawn me further in, and through a series of coincidences, I ended up moving to Omaha. Now I live in the same neighborhood where Bright Eyes got its start, where twenty years ago a Conor Oberst about my age wrote the songs which saved my life and taught me a bit about who I really am. At heart, I am a land locked Midwesterner, an old soul, a pacifist, a secret idealist, changing like the seasons, always trying to fill up all the empty space. If you're anything like that, I think you'll really like this song, too.

[mareinaplaylist]

Bright Eyes - June 17 2022

Seattle, Washington

Dance and Sing

Lover I Don’t Have to Love

Four Winds

Bowl of Oranges

Something Vague

Mariana Trench

One and Done

Old Soul Song (for the New World Order)

Tilt‐A‐Whirl

Poison Oak

Haile Selassie

Persona non grata

Another Travelin’ Song

To Death’s Heart (in Three Parts)

The Calendar Hung Itself…

Ladder Song

First Day of My Life

I Believe in Symmetry

One for You, One for Me

[phoebecatesl0vr]

I have so many things i want to say about this pic.

[lonely-night]

first I saw ai art in the j7 fb group (which I left immediately the moment I saw no one thought that's a problem) now ai fic?????? what the fucking fuck don't fucking ruin my fandom with your ai bullshit I just found this fandom

DO NOT READ AI FIC

[real-life-cloud]

💔

[black-mambaaaa]

The best most wonderful experience I've had was actually pretty recently at a convention. My friends and myself were walking down a hall to get somewhere in the convention center, and we get stopped by this older lady. I assumed that she was just going to ask us for directions as so many people already had that day. But instead she surprised me in the best way. My friends and I were all dressed as Good Omens characters (three Crowleys and an Aziraphale.) And this older lady stopped us and asks for our pictures. We're not too shy with our cosplay so naturally we agreed. As time goes on and we help her figure out her phone and how to take the pictures and share them with us, I can't help but notice her Star Trek uniform dress she's wearing. And I just suddenly had this really deep emotional feeling. This lady standing before us was probably one of the creators of fandom, this lady who stood here and told us she loves Good Omens so much and she really hopes they get together in the third season because she just loves them so much and they make her happy. This lady who was very sweet in her star trek dress. This lady who quite possibly could've been involved with the original Spirk shippers. And I know that's a big assumption to make...but my point is. You don't often see older people involved in fandoms, at least not in the same areas as younger people. And I think that's ridiculous, because seeing someone older who was enjoying herself and still loving fandom just gave me the happiest feeling in the world. And if she's out there, I just want to say thank you to that lady (and anyone else who's older and still involved in fandom) for being an example that you can grow up and still love fandoms. Thank you for attending that convention and asking for our pictures because seeing you there just made me so indescribably happy and honestly fandoms wouldn't be where they are today if it weren't for the people who got the ball rolling. So again. Thank you!

[muirneach]

woke up at like 7:10 in the morning on a saturday this is some bullshit

[dykehayleywilliams]

album covers that are always on my mind part two

[hermitcraft-8]

been getting really into happiness and bliss and learning to love recently

[h0ney8ee]

for the past few weeks i have not been able to sleep before 2am for the life of me and im not sure how to fix it

[oflgtfol]

ive been in a venom mood lately i keep telling myself maybe this is finally my sign to start reading comics again but then i just keep fucking falling asleep as soon as i get home

[tomorrowillbeyou]

okay so i started listening through fevers and mirrors. lifechanging shit

IT IS IT SOOOO IS

[suburbias]

bright eyes era im afraid

[maddogmp3]

pokes my brain. what are we achieving here