Oberst, Conor - Danny Callahan Lyrics

Ayyy lmao

Conor is a wonderful lyricists !

Soo my dad's name was Danny Callahan, like on his birth certif. it said Danny. He died of cancer at 46 when I was 14. WTF IS GOING ON

if a million songs that I heard during my life time? lets puts 80 of em in a category called songs I heard once on strange radio station one night, and never forgot for the rest of my life? I can spit 3 tilts out with almost no forethought, ready?conor oberst -!) danny callahan, 2)leonard Cohen EveryBody Knows,#3) Ill With Want" song by THE AVETT BROTHERS, special bonus*4)The day I died was the best day of my life-just jack

Green world, love the chloroform
Front porch in the thunderstorm
Controlled chaos, confused energy
Stop reading the weather charts
Stop counting the playing cards
There's no system, there's no guarantees
That the love you feel you carry inside can be passed
But you try, I know you do, you still talk to your plants
Ask "How are you getting on, alone?"
Some wander the wilderness
Some drink cosmopolitans
Some cull science, some glean astral planes
I can't tell where the canvas stops
Homesick as an astronaut
Just keep drifting but still can't explain
How the love we feel we carry inside can be passed
See a brother in the gutter you reach out your hand
Ask, "How are you getting on, alone?"
What gauge measures miracles?
And whose heartbeat's electrical?
We feign sickness with our modern joy
But even western medicine
It couldn't save Danny Callahan
Bad bone marrow, a bald little boy
But the love we feels he carries inside can be passed
He lay still, his mother kissed him goodbye said, "Come back.
Where are you going to alone?
Where are you going all alone?"

Did you hear yourself ????

I absolutely adore this man. I can't even fathom everything that must go on in his head....His lyrics are unstoppable.

sooo umm....

said come back

@SynesterBlack Best happy song about a little boy dying ever.

@chmb1102 Hahah so that's what he was saying! LOL. That's so funny.

chloroform...more like boreoform lol i love conor

Continued from last post: " started crying, and we just went home. It was just one of those life experiences that begs to be written about. It's partly about Danny, but it's also about whether or not you can transmit your experience of love to another person and whether that message remains intact when it arrives."

Conor Oberst's explanation of this song:

"I was walking to this liquor store and pharmacy in Nebraska with a friend of mine. Suddenly, she was like, 'Oh my God! Look at that old man sitting in that car, look at how small he is!' Of course, when we got closer we realized it was actually a little boy. It turned out he was waiting in line with his mom to get medicine, and we were there to buy vodka or something. My friend...

Continued on next post....

<3 (:

is this song about Mattie Stepanek ?

poor danny callahan :(

The last verse of this song is heart wrenching

Conor is a genius.

JB

great song. tell me, whats the name of the album?!