Biography:
Conor Oberst is an American singer-songwriter born February 15, 1980 in Omaha, Nebraska. He began his recording career in 1993 at the age of 13 and has since produced an enormous amount of material. Conor was deeply influenced early on by singer-songwriters David Dondero and Simon Joyner. His first two albums "Water" and "Here's to Special Treatment" were both released in 1994. Rolling Stone referred to him as "rock's boy genius." His project Bright Eyes, with Mike Mogis and Nate Walcott, produced several critically-acclaimed records.
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Other songs:
- Cape Canaveral
- Danny Callahan
- One Of My Kind
- You Are Your Mother's Child
- A Little Uncanny
- Afterthought
- Anytime Soon
- Artifact1
- Barbary Coast Later
- Common Knowledge
- Counting Sheep
- Desert Island Questionnaire
- Double Life
- Eagle On A Pole
- Empty Hotel By The Sea
- Enola Gay
- Gossamer Thin
- Governers Ball
- Hundreds Of Ways
- Lax
- Lonely At The Top
- Lua
- Mamah Borthwick A Sketch
- Napalm
- Next Of Kin
- Night At Lake Unknown
- No One Changes
- No Ones Gonna Change For You
- Overdue
- Salutations
- Standing On The Outside Looking In
- Sugar Street
- Tachycardia
- The Rain Follows The Plow
- The Rockaways
- Till St Dymphna Kicks Us Out
- Time Forgot
- Too Late To Fixate
- You All Loved Him Once
- You Are Your Mothers Child
- Zigzagging Toward The Light
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2016 Oberst B side form the record store day 7" release of Tachycardia
D harmonica if you want to play along
[Verse]
C F C
I woke up this mornin' still wearin' that tie
C G C
The one with the hammer and sickle design
C F C
Threw up all the pills my doctor prescribed
C G C C Fmaj7 C
And went out to fetch me some air
C F C
The streets were so crowded with billboards and signs
C G C
Food trucks double parked in their parallel lines
C F C
I thought about breakfast but settled on wine
C G F
Always choose hunger over despair
F G C C7
And what's possible over what's there
[Chorus]
F C
But it isn't as though we get what we want
G7 C
No matter how hard or long we have fought
F C
Oh my happiness is a mere afterthought
C G F
When I'm with her I keep it in mind
Dm G C
Then she leaves and I've run out of time
[Harmonica]
C F C G7
[Verse]
C F C
I sat down today in a high barber's chair
C G C
To hear the town gossip and clean up my hair
C F C
He said she was seen on the bus station stairs
C G C C Fmaj7 C
With her suitcase threatenin' to walk
C F C
Not sure how true it was but I'll hazard a guess
C G C
It's probably not more and it's probably not less
C F C
If that college kid bookie was accepting bets
C G F
The brackets would mostly be chalk
F G C C7
Yeah it's safe to assume that she's lost
[Chorus]
F C
But it isn't as though we get what we want
G7 C
No matter how hard or long we have fought
F C
Oh my happiness is a mere afterthought
C G F
When I'm with her I keep it in mind
Dm G C
Then she's gone and I've run out of time
[Harmonica]
C F C G7
[Verse]
C F C
I can't be concerned with the state that I'm in
C G C
At the height of the scandal with vertigo spins
C F C
Take every audition til I'm Errol Flynn
C G C C Fmaj7 C
And bring it to life off the page
C F C
And I'll get up tomorrow still wearin' that tie
C G C
The one with the skull and the crossbone designs
C F C
If I'm asked if I miss her it's easy to lie
C G F
In this world that's called more of the same
F G C C7
Yeah I wouldn't feel proud or ashamed
[Chorus]
F C
'cause it isn't as though we get what we want
G7 C
No matter how hard or long we have fought
F C
Oh my happiness is a mere afterthought
C G F
When I'm with her I keep it in mind
Dm G C
Then she leaves and I've run out of time
[Harmonica]
C F C G7
C F
C F C G7 C F G F C
D harmonica if you want to play along
[Verse]
C F C
I woke up this mornin' still wearin' that tie
C G C
The one with the hammer and sickle design
C F C
Threw up all the pills my doctor prescribed
C G C C Fmaj7 C
And went out to fetch me some air
C F C
The streets were so crowded with billboards and signs
C G C
Food trucks double parked in their parallel lines
C F C
I thought about breakfast but settled on wine
C G F
Always choose hunger over despair
F G C C7
And what's possible over what's there
[Chorus]
F C
But it isn't as though we get what we want
G7 C
No matter how hard or long we have fought
F C
Oh my happiness is a mere afterthought
C G F
When I'm with her I keep it in mind
Dm G C
Then she leaves and I've run out of time
[Harmonica]
C F C G7
[Verse]
C F C
I sat down today in a high barber's chair
C G C
To hear the town gossip and clean up my hair
C F C
He said she was seen on the bus station stairs
C G C C Fmaj7 C
With her suitcase threatenin' to walk
C F C
Not sure how true it was but I'll hazard a guess
C G C
It's probably not more and it's probably not less
C F C
If that college kid bookie was accepting bets
C G F
The brackets would mostly be chalk
F G C C7
Yeah it's safe to assume that she's lost
[Chorus]
F C
But it isn't as though we get what we want
G7 C
No matter how hard or long we have fought
F C
Oh my happiness is a mere afterthought
C G F
When I'm with her I keep it in mind
Dm G C
Then she's gone and I've run out of time
[Harmonica]
C F C G7
[Verse]
C F C
I can't be concerned with the state that I'm in
C G C
At the height of the scandal with vertigo spins
C F C
Take every audition til I'm Errol Flynn
C G C C Fmaj7 C
And bring it to life off the page
C F C
And I'll get up tomorrow still wearin' that tie
C G C
The one with the skull and the crossbone designs
C F C
If I'm asked if I miss her it's easy to lie
C G F
In this world that's called more of the same
F G C C7
Yeah I wouldn't feel proud or ashamed
[Chorus]
F C
'cause it isn't as though we get what we want
G7 C
No matter how hard or long we have fought
F C
Oh my happiness is a mere afterthought
C G F
When I'm with her I keep it in mind
Dm G C
Then she leaves and I've run out of time
[Harmonica]
C F C G7
C F
C F C G7 C F G F C
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