"If you hate the taste of wine
Why do you drink it till you're blind?
And if you swear that there's no truth and who cares
How come you say it like you're right?
Why are you scared to dream of God
When it's salvation that you want?
You see stars that clear have been dead for years
But the idea just lives on...
In our wheels that roll around
As we move over the ground
And all day it seems we've been in between
A past and future town
We are nowhere and it's now"
-Bright Eyes "We Are Nowhere And It's Now"

Conor Oberst is a personal hero of mine. He is a singer-songwriter for numerous bands which include Bright Eyes, Conor Oberst and the Mystic River Band, and most recently (and most awesomely) Monsters of Folk. His voice isn't particuarly good, at all, instead even his most uplifting songs, of love, redemption, and personal and wordly accpetance, convey some sort underlying saddness. Some sort of pain. But maybe you need to suffer to evolve (but I'm sure I will be discussing that in the future; 'no happy woman ever writes'- Ruth Hall by Fanny Fern). Anyway, I digress. With that out of the way let us get back to our discussion. Rather, my discussion; because no one reads my blog.

This song poses a very funny idea: an atheist or possibly anarachist trying to make others believe of their system or their 'order'. It's funny because it's hypocritical, I appologized if it seems like I didn't think you understood the pun because it is rather pretentious of me to do so. Still, I digress.

Is this not true? I know alot of people who fall under some sort of atheistic religion and many of them are rather outspoken in their beliefs. But it seems that goes against what they are preaching. In the Bible someone of religious importance once said that the man who prays to himself, quiet and alone, is morally stronger than one who screams his prays for others to be heard. It's as if they want justifacation of their faiths. And now that I think of it, this applies to all religions. Anyway, back to the song.

This girl he speaks of, she is stuck. She's looking for a reason, a chance to explain, something to make life worth the work, a meaning. But she falls short. It seems as if she's settling for a nothingness but knows that she's settled. This causes her to repress her feelings, to drink, to dream of salvation. We are nowhere and it's now.

Wow. What an image you know? I think its such a pungeant idea. It's moving. It truly is.

The funny part is that many people won't listen to him because his voice really isn't good, at all. Oh, what they are missing. Or should I say, 'who cares if their missing it'.