Lyrics of the Week: Conor Oberst "Artifact #1"

"Artifact #1"

What would it take to gain acceptance
To the grounds behind your eyes
You know I'm open to suggestion
The one you made we never tried

Let it slip right out from under
Your breath and it rolled around my head
It was nothing I'd consider
I knew it had to happen then

Stood on the banks of the Potomac
We watched the water rushing by
You said we should live in the moment
Then I'd miss you all the time

And I know no one will believe me
But I don't want a second chance
To be an object of desire
If that means slipping through your hands
If I had tried to make you mine
You would have walked away
I can't compete with memories
They never have to change

This world is full of missing persons
All of these unsolved mysteries
If someone says they know for certain
They're selling something certainly

So when I set myself to wonder
All the questions that remain
The only one that even matters
Is when I'll see you're face again

I keep looking back for artifacts
To prove that you were here
The sound that's been keeps echoing
It never disappears

Lyrics of the Week: The Gravest Generation by Douglas Sullivan

http://statelinerecords.bandcamp.com/track/the-gravest-generation

Break solidarity and force a change
Cut your face from the picture they’re painting
Those words weigh like stone in a flood of unknown
A bright horizon
A red dawn
An ivory state

The gravest generation
We’ll watch the walls burn down
There’s nothing calling us
There’s nothing guarding us
‘Cause you can’t count it up until you got it
There’s nothing for us
A rising chorus



Now for the moment all checkpoints look safe
Save for the warning found tacked to our gate
And the ringing remains of a distant air raid
That will remain ‘til the wind wipes the names from our graves

The great generation will watch the walls burn down
There’s nothing guarding us
There’s nothing stopping us
‘Cause what your family does lies between god and us
There’s nothing for us
A rising chorus

from Dead End Streets, released 31 May 2013
Words and music by Douglas Sullivan. Published by Ever Indie Music (ASCAP)