Danny Callahan

Song Danny Callahan
Artist Conor Oberst
Album Merge Records Promo Sampler

Lyrics

[00:01.36] Conor Oberst - Danny Callahan
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[00:12.63] Green world, love the chloroform.
[00:16.34] Front porch in the thunderstorm.
[00:20.02] Controlled chaos, confused energy.
[00:25.12]
[00:27.69] So stop reading the weather charts.
[00:31.51] Stop counting the playing cards.
[00:35.34] There's no system, there's no guarantees.
[00:42.31] That the love you feel and carry inside can be passed.
[00:49.79] But you try, and all you do is just talk
[00:53.57] to the past.
[00:56.92] Ask how are you getting on alone?
[01:02.00]
[01:02.36] Some wander the wilderness,
[01:06.15] some drink cosmopolitans.
[01:09.88] Some cold science, some glean astroplanes.
[01:15.41]
[01:17.72] I can't tell where the camera stops,
[01:21.67] homesick as an astronaut.
[01:25.31] Just keep drifting, but still can't explain.
[01:32.06] How the love we feel we carry inside can be passed.
[01:39.58] See a brother in the gutter and reach out your hand.
[01:46.95] Ask how are you getting on alone?
[01:52.12]
[02:31.19] What guage measures miracles?
[02:34.84] Whose heartbeat's electrical?
[02:38.61] We feign sickness with our modern joy.
[02:46.37] But even Western medicine,
[02:50.09] it couldn't save Danny Callahan.
[02:54.02] Bad bone marrow, the poor little boy.
[03:00.77] But the love he feels he carries inside can be passed.
[03:08.35] He lay still,
[03:09.91] his mother kissed him goodbye, said 'comeback.'
[03:15.58] Where are you going to alone?
[03:19.47] Where are you going all alone?
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