Love this! I'm worse than you. I didn't start listening to Conor until a couple of years ago, when I was 34! I randomly picked up I'm Wide Awake its Morning and I felt like my heart was going to leap out of my chest. It was like what I imagine the first shot of heroin, or hit of crack, to feel like. His lyrics and voice induce a visceral feeling- shivers, goosebumps, all of it.
Emily Dickinson said: "If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way?"
On Taste Has Never Met Shame: I Love You, Conor Oberst!
Love this! I'm worse than you. I didn't start listening to Conor until a couple of years ago, when I was 34! I randomly picked up I'm Wide Awake its Morning and I felt like my heart was going to leap out of my chest. It was like what I imagine the first shot of heroin, or hit of crack, to feel like. His lyrics and voice induce a visceral feeling- shivers, goosebumps, all of it.
Emily Dickinson said: "If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way?"
That is what his music is- poetry.