Conor Oberst - Fevers and Mirrors (2000)

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I drug your ghost across the country, and we plotted out my death.
Every city and memory we whispered "Here is where you rest."
Well I was determined in Chicago but I dug my teeth into my knees
And I settled for a telephone, sang into your machine:
"You are my sunshine, my only sunshine."

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And the sad act like lepers
They stick to the shadows
They long to ring bells of warning
To tell of their coming
So that the pure can shut their doors.

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And I sing and sing of awful things
The pleasure that my sadness brings.

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I think it is more like a ghost
that has been following us both.
Something vague that we're not seeing,
something more like a feeling.
Now I know a disease that these Doctors can't treat.
You contract on the day you accept all you see is a mirror and a mirror is all it can be.
A reflection of something we're missing.

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For a sunrise or a sunset, you're manic or you're depressed.
Will you ever feel ok?

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Soon all the joy that pours from everything makes fountains of your eyes
because you finally understand the movement of a hand waving good-bye.

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You combed your hair inside that mirror
The one you painted blue and glued with jewelry tears
Something about those bright colors
Would always make you feel better.
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