Smoke Signals - Conor Oberst video free download


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Duration: 03:18
Uploaded: 2008/03/11

Last December Conor Oberst played in the 400 Club in Minneapolis, solo, and this is was one of the songs. It's great one, and one of my favorites.

Here are the Lyrics :

I was lost for a while in the mirrored hallway of a high-rise hotel

Umbrella drink in my hand, sitting down

Saw ten thousand me's with cocaine teeth and the chattering man

Thought about home

Thought about death

Thought about moving south

Rodeo wind blew in out the candles

And now everyone's scared

Call my broker sell everything

I want to be prepared

Heard the cavalry cry

My girl for the night when I entered her

Sounds so fake, always feels fake

Finishes and then it feels worst

But any hallway has a camera

Every hallway has a camera

Don't you know?

They never let you open the window

Smoke signals of thought

White ribbons of loss

High above the tree line

They cry out

I froze up for a second on the pyramid side of the Las Vegas strip

My brother hunched over in the bushes, getting sick

Security knew he took one look and through us out, Life's not fair

Thought I die young with my true love

Thought I'd be a millionaire

In a mechanical world

A loud sound you never heard is always there

Radio's trailing in the desert

Keep driving until you disappear

We made a gentlemen's pact

We're not stopping no looking back,

Lace those shoes

Take the first step, take the next step

"That a boy!" It's never too soon

All that you keep is the journey

All that you keep are the spaces in-between

It's not the first start of the ending

All that you keep is the journey

Smoke rings around your thoughts

Blue ribbons at dawn

High above the tree line

We pass out

Smoke signals of thought

White ribbons of loss

High above the tree line

They cry out

Comments

12 years ago

lcd19777

he later changed the lyric thought id be a millionaire to ended up a millionaire. just some pointless knowledge but totally changes the feeling.

12 years ago

stefanie fox

i like your videos!

12 years ago

stefanie fox

does anyone know how old he might be when he performed this?

12 years ago

MNskating

i would do dirty deeds for you if you sent me this song aswell! i know you've had this up for over a year, but just stumbled upon it... and come on, can you really deny this winky face?! ;)

13 years ago

lcd19777

@jbwitten im a huge oberst fan but i think you need to listen to more dylan. no filler? you should probally listen a little closer to oberst too.

13 years ago

Ryan Smith

@jbwitten Id have to agree.

13 years ago

MaxFillio

Conor Oberst, Jeff Tweedy, Osvaldo Paese and Win Butler are the best songwriters of our time. This is a great song.

13 years ago

David Haller

Could you send this file to me too? I'd like it very much! I love Conor and Bright Eyes!

13 years ago

shelbithefro

@magicalwrath the chords are on ultimate-guitar

13 years ago

Braxton Wittenburg

@Devilslittleimp It would only piss people off for the reason that Conor Oberst is a much better lyricist than Dylan ever was. His themes are much more tightly woven. There's never any filler. With pretty much every line, you can add additional information to the line to make it more complete. He also experiments with impossible thoughts, kind of like an Escher drawing where it's possible to imagine but violates our natural laws. Comparison to Dylan would only be for lack of imagination.

13 years ago

Nicolas Curcio

oh my god amazing...

13 years ago

ShawnMASTAGibbs

If you don't like this song you either have saggy beef flaps or no balls.

14 years ago

brynjaran09

ive been reading comments on other bright eyes songs .. and people always talk about how conor has a bad voice and how the lyrics is the strong side. but i think that his imperfect voice is what makes it perfect and how its mixed with the lyrics he writes, you can hear how it comes from his heart.

14 years ago

Beth .Clarke

This man is god.

14 years ago

XiXheartXretardsX

i like this version better than gentleman's pact.

14 years ago

no3calories3allowed

hey :) i really love this video and the song! I can't find it anywhere on itunes though.. I looked for it under the names "smoke signals" and " gentlemans pact" but still found nothing, could you please tell me if it could be under any other name or else where to get it?? thanks

14 years ago

Jenny Kelly

yea one of the greatest songwriters of the day

14 years ago

Matthew Grabowski

I've always said that Conor is the now and day Bob Dylan...that might piss some people off. But I think its true. They both have well from peoples standards "bad vocals" although I love both their vocals. They are both in my eyes, the best lyricists that ever lived.

14 years ago

Awesomesauces

Isn't this called Gentleman's Pact?

14 years ago

ShortyMJF

this kid sounds awful. Whatever happened to talent?

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