Bright Eyes - Don't Know When But A Day Is Gonna Come Lyrics

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Now men with purple hearts carry silver guns, and they'll kill a man for what his family's done, but what my family did, it doesn't mean shit, I'm not them

Is it true what I heard about the Son of God?
Did he come to save? Did he come at all?
And if I dried his feet with my dirty hair
Would he make me clean again?

They say they don't know when, but a day is gonna come
When there won't be a moon and there won't be a sun
It will just go black, it will just go back
To the way it was before

I knew a lovely girl with such pretty pride
And every man wanted her, yeah and so did I
Yeah, and so did I, but she up and died
In a fit of vanity

Now men with purple hearts carry silver guns
And they'll kill a man for what his father's done
But what my father did, you know it don't mean shit
I'm not him

And you think I need some discipline, well, I had my share
Now, I've been sent to my room, I've been sat in a chair
And I held my tongue, I didn't plug my ears
No, I got a good talking to

Now I don't know why, but I still try to smile
When they talk at me like I'm just a child
Well, I'm not a child, no, I am
Much younger than that

But now I've read some books and I've grown quite brave
If I could just speak up, I think I would say
That there is no truth, there is only you
And what you make the truth

So I'll just sing my songs and I'll pass a hat
And then I'll leave your town and I'll never look back
No, I don't look back because the road is clear
And laid out ahead of me

Now I'll get home, I'll meet my friends at our favorite bar
We'll get some lighter heads for our heavy hearts
And we'll share a drink, yeah we'll share our fears
And they'll know how I love them

They will know how I love
They will know how I love them
I'm nothing without their love

Now I don't know when, but a day is gonna come
When there won't be a moon and there won't be a sun
It will all go black, it will all go back
To the way it's supposed to be

Is it true what they say about the Son of God?
Did he die for us? Did he die at all?
And if I sold my soul for a bag of gold to you
Which one of us would be the foolish one?

Which one of us would be the fool?
Which one of us would be the foolish one?
Which one of us would be the fool?

Could you please start explaining?
You know, I need some understanding
Could you please start explaining?
You know, I need some understanding
Could you please start explaining?
You know, I need some understanding
Could you go and start explaining?
You know, I want to understand

fucking bright eyes. why do you ruin my saddle creek mix?

Is it true what I heard about the Son of God?
Did he come to save? Did he come at all?
And if I dried his feet with my dirty hair
Would he make me clean again?

They say they don't know when, but a day is gonna come
When there won't be a moon and there won't be a sun
It will just go black, it will just go back
To the way it was before

I knew a lovely girl with such pretty pride
And every man wanted her, yeah and so did I
Yeah, and so did I, but she up and died
In a fit of vanity

Now men with purple hearts carry silver guns
And they'll kill a man for what his father's done
But what my father did, you know it don't mean shit
I'm not him

And you think I need some discipline, well, I had my share
Now, I've been sent to my room, I've been sat in a chair
And I held my tongue, I didn't plug my ears
No, I got a good talking to

Now I don't know why, but I still try to smile
When they talk at me like I'm just a child
Well, I'm not a child, no, I am
Much younger than that

But now I've read some books and I've grown quite brave
If I could just speak up, I think I would say
That there is no truth, there is only you
And what you make the truth

So I'll just sing my songs and I'll pass a hat
And then I'll leave your town and I'll never look back
No, I don't look back because the road is clear
And laid out ahead of me

Now I'll get home, I'll meet my friends at our favorite bar
We'll get some lighter heads for our heavy hearts
And we'll share a drink, yeah we'll share our fears
And they'll know how I love them

They will know how I love
They will know how I love them
I'm nothing without their love

Now I don't know when, but a day is gonna come
When there won't be a moon and there won't be a sun
It will all go black, it will all go back
To the way it's supposed to be

Is it true what they say about the Son of God?
Did he die for us? Did he die at all?
And if I sold my soul for a bag of gold to you
Which one of us would be the foolish one?

Which one of us would be the fool?
Which one of us would be the foolish one?
Which one of us would be the fool?

Could you please start explaining?
You know, I need some understanding
Could you please start explaining?
You know, I need some understanding
Could you please start explaining?
You know, I need some understanding
Could you go and start explaining?
You know, I want to understand

But what my father did.... You know it don't mean shit.... I'm. Not. Him.

Joy Division - Twenty Four Hours. Hope its a coincidence

Shit like this will make you look at your life in earth differently.

Jacob Deason definitely.

Now I've read some books and I've grown quite brave. If I could just speak up I think I would say, that "there is no truth, there is only you and what you make the truth."

This speaks to my soul, sad songs make me happy knowing I am not alone. The poetry linguistics and beauty combine to make magic

Anyone else here because of Troians insta post? XD

i didnt care much about this artist when i first heard them but i think i'm starting to turn around.

Conor Oberst writes the most beautiful lyrics in the whole entire world

He definitely makes a large contribution to be sure.

i love him and don't know him at the same time

@XxCOOKEExxMONSTARxX I love you

Really? "there is no truth" -> Postmodernism rears its ugly head!! There is also nihilism, and the whining of a demanding child... yuck!

​@drstrangelove09 He wrote that when he was a kid in his early 20's. He's amended his views as he's grown as a person. I wonder what gems you'd be capable of bestowing on the world at that age. Let us know when you get there--maybe finish high school first though. Incidentally, he says he was wrong ab "truth" here in his veeery next album champ!

The ending from 5:58 really finishes you off... Great song.

Yeah I need someone to go and start making a 10 hours version of the ending/

Conor ALWAYS finishes me off; then I usually need some tissues...

The string section really knew what they were doing. He seems to know a lot of talented people.

Reminds me of Eddie Vedder. Makes me wanna listen to I'm Still Here. Good tune. Great lyrics

Eddie is the best

well i'm not a child, no i am much younger than that

@Nolan Wright I've no explanation to that lyric, but it reminds me of a Bob Dylan line from "Back Pages": "Ah, but I was so much older then; I'm younger than that now."

@Nolan Wright it means he knows he doesn't understand anything hes a child

it means he finally gave up battling against the thought of his lack of maturity and realized he is even less mature than what they thought of him. (I can relate, he's awesome)

@Nolan Wright For me it evokes the idea of cosmic time and how all human lifespans are insignificant compared against the age of our universe. It's a reminder that none of us will ever get to be older than young-- older than infantile, really--before death takes us.

It’s to make a bunch of assholes feel existential while another record company profits off their sadness and another artist gets pimped out only to put bread on their table.

I've become the Middleman, the grey areas are mine.

Classical break down at 5:02 XD

Forgetting all this, I'm intrigued to know what your thoughts on homosexuality are?

Probably very "old testament." Mythology is holding us back.

Yep, I support a woman's right to get an abortion, and I'm sorry you don't feel the same. However, the original comment, from two years ago, seems to be using liberal in a more general sense, not a specific sense. I have no idea what Conor think's of a woman's right to choose, so it hardly matters what your, or my, view of it is in regard to this comment section.

if you still think he's a liberal, listen to "The Left is Right" by Desaparecidos. he's really not a liberal, even though he can come off that way. he's got a lot of middle ground to him.

if you consider other songs, he is neither conservative or liberal. in "at the bottom of everything" he says:
We must take all of the medicines too expensive now to sell
Set fire to the preacher who is promising us hell
And in the ear of every anarchist that sleeps but doesn't dream
We must sing, we must sing, we must sing
and of course there is when the president talks to God, which mocks the conservative agenda.

terms suck! I am liberal on some things conservative on others un-decided on some! why label yourself anyway!

Amazing

conor is too smart to be a liberal.

5:02 is when I eargasm the most.

I like how I had an "Army of 2" commercial opening for this vid.

how tasteless.

we'll get some lighter heads for our heavy hearts..

me too..... me too!

excellent song, i dont like 95% of what i hear from bright eyes but this song..... i love love LOVE so fuckin much!!!

The song was on a mixtape a friend made for me. Mostly metal & hardcore stuff, so I skipped many songs. But then there was this song, I was laying on the ground with my headphones on in a ark room, and well I was friggin' impressed and stirred. Had to listen to it ten times in a row.

You don't know for a fact. I think he suffered from depression, too. But we don't know "for a fact."

hahahahah! breaking benjamin? lol hilarious

holy shit. my drunken mind. is. blown.

This is my life. All of it.
My mind has just been irreparably blown.

Naww I'd say he's just depressed. There's lots of us.

um he actually suffered from depression.. whether he still does or not i don't know but i know for a fact that he did.

"I knew a lovely girl with such pretty pride,
and every man wanted her, yeah and so did I.
Yeah, and so did I." story of my life :/

You need to expand your life a bit...

When being asked what he thought about being compared to Bob Dylan, he said that there are worse things to be called.

hes the most depressed man that ever lived

It is, buy it instead of just pirating it. :)

Oh I so agree! :}

This song lifts me off the floor. He is pure genius!

@wonderxlick
Tell me a line or a couple words and I'll know what song it is :)

my friend had me listen to one of conor's songs while i was tripping hard, and it touched me so deeply. but now i can't find it!

Olivia Thorndike what was it like

I purchased this album about a year ago, and it was my first time hearing Conor Oberst. The other day, I was looking at the album on itunes, clicked info, and realized i bought this album on Febuary 15. His fucking birthday!

The instrumental breakdowns... are flawless, the lyrics, are gold.

Heard this song a thousand times, but I just figured out, the music, his voice=sex. Ima little horny.

@deebrahdeeb he took being called the new bob dylan as an insult on the late show

"But what my father did, well it don't mean shit. I'm not him."

Love it. It makes a good point.

This song is so perfect in so many ways... Conor is my religion.

Holy shit, bright eyes is the B0:55.




That song is brutal.





I loved it.

No, I am much younger than that.
Best thing I've ever fucking heard

men with purple hearts carry silver guns.

everything about this song is genius.

@SharkAttackNation tom waits my friend

@limegreentanuki go listen to your breaking benjamin, i feel sorry for you. You will never know real music, and that's the truth

@limegreentanuki then please go listen to them

it's our skinny, fucked up voiced liberal of our generation. it's the bob dylan that isn't played on the radio.

the fact that there are even 4 dislikes, amazes me.

@myquest666420 there's nothing next level about Gojira. hahahahaha they're the shittiest metal band i've ever heard. Gojira has nothing to do with Bright Eyes. Conor's on a completely different level than those guys.

@MsPsychophil Gojira is SHIT metal.

This song is absolutely perfect as an antidote to the May212011-ers. Thank you for providing sanity in an insane world.

@nsG0 Stop trying to sound deep and thought-provoking.
You just sound stupid and confused. Also, learn some proper punctuation.

yea there's a day gonna come that the sun will stop burning, also a day where the moon will hit the earth? Also a day where jupiter will get hit by some meteors? etc? so? Ofcourse we humans wouldn't be around in that time since we have greed, lust and power still on our x-mas list. so long suckers

@DancingChaos01 then check out "Gojira" and move to the next level.

I always listen to Bright Eyes while working on my homework. Somehow, my homework never gets finished.

@originalblerd Nothing under the sun is new.

The beauty for me is the way in which the lyrics and the music mesh together into a singular whole. The thoughts themselves might be rather mundane, but there is a large difference between the following two lines:

"The world will end."
"It will all go black."

Oberst's tender delivery of that latter line is exactly what makes the song for me. Atmosphere, this song has it.

I just sit here and let the chills run through my body. It feels so good.

Bright Eyes fans need to stop orgasming over this song. The lyrics aren't groundbreaking and the music is simple. It's alright, though.

@thetomatoelement is DancingChaos01 God? ??

"but what my fathers done, you know it don't mean shit. im not him". yes. so true, it applies to everything, a universal truth is written in every line of his artwork

I love this song. I'm trying to learn how to play it right now but I suck so wish me luck haha

@TheEzTV ......GTFO

his songs teach me so many things. i never look at things the same after hearing songs like this one.

the ending sounds like a big herd of elephants,
ijust realized i only ever comment on bright eyes' songs.

@thornbird7556

Very crazy. There are some nice religious ideas out there (in almost every major religion), Love Your Neighbor/Enemy for instance, but what you are talking about is ridiculous. That kind of stuff is destroying mankind. Or at least making it ugly.

first time listening to this band.. Amazing i must say

@DancingChaos01 thats why i love him.

I need this album so bad...

If only we studied him in year 12 =[

I will say that he is like Bob Dylan in that his songs are like poetry and perhaps one day we will be studying his lyrics in lit classes. I hope so :)

This is so fucking amazing! I didn't know it until know. But Conor makes me be a better song writer!

this song thoroughly fascinates me.

i really wish i could write like conor oberst.

i am one of those fans....tell me, do you have nobody, or nothing that you are close to calling g-d too?

I am not a child. No, I am much younger than that.

lol kids

Lyric wise,this is my favourite song by Bright Eyes.

This song if fucking epic!

dont get me wrong its a wonderful song. but if it takes this to make you tear up about the world, clear off the wool.

I hope you've grown a bit more in the 8 years since this awful comment.

I cry all the time when I think of this song and hear it.

One Of The Best Songs On This Album.
Starts Very Minimalistic And Rises To An Orchestral Masterpiece.