Conor Oberst - Ruminations

Next of Kin

I saw a crash on the interstate
It left a feeling I could not shake
Just a name in a database
That must be notified

It's not a phone call I want to make
A stranger answers I hesitate
Got some bad news that couldn't wait
Are you sitting down?

Her bathrobe hangs on the bedroom door
Though she's been dead for a year or more
He buried her by the sycamore
So that he could keep her close

It broke his heart and it made him old
Tries to rebuild but it just erode
People say that's the way it goes
But he don't feel that way

You get too drunk and you can't perform
Something dies when a star is born
I spread my anger like Agent Orange
I was indiscriminate... yeah

I met Lou Reed and Patti Smith
It didn't make me feel different
I guess I lost all my innocence
Way too long ago

She called my bluff and she won the fight
I ran outside in the hot twilight
I had a lighter that didn't light
Though I know I shouldn't smoke

I was gone, I was free to leave
Walking fast down The Bowery
Tears in my eyes so I couldn't see
But I made my way back home



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Writer(s): Conor M. Oberst
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Other Album Tracks

  1. Tachycardia
  2. Barbary Coast (Later)
  3. Gossamer Thin
  4. Counting Sheep
  5. Mamah Borthwick (A Sketch)
  6. The Rain Follows the Plow
  7. A Little Uncanny
  8. Next of Kin
  9. You All Loved Him Once
  10. Till St. Dymphna Kicks Us Out

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Altri album

  1. The Rockaways
  2. No One Changes
  3. Spotify Singles
  4. Salutations
  5. A Little Uncanny / Napalm
  6. Tachycardia
  7. Ruminations
  8. Ruminations (Expanded Edition)
  9. We're Going To Be Friends
  10. Standing On the Outside Looking In / Sugar Street

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