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Rhythm 10.0
Melody 10.0
Instruments 9.5
Lyrics 9.5
Vocal 10.0
This song has been reviewed 8 times. Overall score for this song, 9.8.
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Bright Eyes - A Line Allows Progress, A Circle Does Not Lyrics

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TitleA Line Allows Progress, A Circle Does Not
ArtistBright Eyes
AlbumEvery Day and Every Night (1999) , Track 1
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Song lyrics
Sitting around, no work today.
Try pacing to keep awake.
Laying around, no school today.
Just drink until the clock has circled all the way.

It's late afternoon, as you walk through the rooms
of a house that is quiet
except for unanswered telephones.
You stand near the sink,
you mix up a drink.
You think you don't want to pass out
where your roommates could find you again.
Stumble 'round the neighboorhod, nothing to do.
You're always looking for something
to sniff smoke or swallow.
Calling over next door, see what they've got.
But you would settle for anything
that would make your brain slow down or
stop this circle of thoughts you chase
before they catch back up with you.
And your parents notice your thinning face,
All the weight you've lost,
All the weight youre losing.
You said "I'm done feeling like a skeleton,
no more sleep walking dead."
You're going to wake from this coma.
You're going to crawl from this bed you've made.
Stop counting on the camera
that hangs around your neck,
cause it will never remember what you choose to forget.

And you try to find one source of light,
try to name one thing you like.
You used to have such a longer list,
And light, you never had to look for it.

But now it's so easy, it's so easy to--
it's so easy, it's so easy to
second guess everything you do
until all you want, all you want is to
finish this half empty glass
before the ice all melts away.
This feeling always used to pass,
seems like it's every day
seems like it's every night now.
lyrics submitted by wonderboy




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05-11-2004 04:25xkristiLACEYx is offline xkristiLACEYx 

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i am almost positive that there is someone besides conor oberst singing in this song. who is it?? tell me!!

ps. this song is amazing
11-11-2004 02:38spax is offline spax 

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this is one of the best song i ever heard

seriously ! Conor is the best !
28-11-2004 22:06aflackoh6 is offline aflackoh6 

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This song is so effing great.
28-11-2004 22:46darkesthour is offline darkesthour 

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This song is really good!!

but bright eyes have songs better than this one.
25-03-2005 04:50goalgurl22 is offline goalgurl22 

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this song is great, but its so sad
10-05-2005 00:09hellotonoone is offline hellotonoone 

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Good song.
01-06-2005 05:57abjecttoyou is offline abjecttoyou 

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This, along with every other one of Conor's songs, is written incredibly. Every line ties right in with the next. His physical voice may not sound perfect, but it is perfect for everything his voice is saying. And personally, I love how he makes indirect references to drugs, alcohol, etc.
05-02-2008 23:48nirvanafreak22 is offline nirvanafreak22 


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This song is really sad. Amazing too, though. I dont think his references are actually indirect. In this song, for example, he's talking about drugs and alcohol all the effing song. I feel so sad for him, I love him too much and he's too much of a genius to be that sad and depressed and wasting himself on rotting his system. So sad.
Speaking of other stuff, I saw him on friday with Mystic Valley Band. I so love him!!


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