What is your favorite Bright Eyes song?

I've been listening to Cassadaga so Four Winds.

Haha! I'm not stalking you, I swear. I'm just in the indie genre section :)

The Calendar Hung Itself

Does he kiss your eyelids in the morning
When you start to raise your head?
And does he sing to you incessantly
From the space between your bed and wall?
Does he walk around all day at school
With his feet inside your shoes
Looking down every few steps
To pretend he walks with you?

Oh, does he know that place below your neck
That's your favorite to be touched?
And does he cry through broken sentences
Like, "I love you far too much"?

Does he lay awake listening to your breath
Worried you smoke too many cigarettes?
Is he coughing now on a bathroom floor?
For every speck of tile there's a thousand more
You won’t ever see, but must hold inside yourself
Eternally

Well, I drug your ghost across the country
And we plotted out my death
In every city, memories would whisper
"Here is where you rest..."
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
You are my sunshine
My only sunshine,"

And I kissed a girl with a broken jaw
That her father gave to her
She had eyes bright enough to burn me
They reminded me of yours

And in a story told, she was a little girl
In a red-rouge, sun-bruised field
And there were rows of ripe tomatoes
Where a secret was concealed
And it rose like thunder
Clapped under our hands
And it stretched for centuries
To a diary entry's end
Where I wrote:
"You make me happy, ah
When skies are gray
You make me happy, ah
Oh, when skies are gray
They're gray and gray,"

Well, the clock’s heart, it hangs inside its open chest
With its hands stretched towards
The calendar hanging itself
But I will not weep for those dying days
For all the ones who left, there's a few that stayed
And they found me here
And pulled me from the grass
Where I was laid...

*edited* to add that I've found an absurd number of homemade videos for this song on youtube. very strange.

Four Winds
A Calendar Hung Itself
Gold Mine Gutted


Those three are tied for first with me. I recently discovered Bright Eyes, and I find Mr. Oberst's lyrics to be absolutely miserable and depressing, but I love them anyway. I guess years of listening to AFI numbed me to depressing lyrics :P

Lua

first day of my life..or at the bottom of everything [check out the video..it is phenomenal!]

Smoke Without Fire

Messenger Bird's song
ship in a bottle
light pollution
let's not shit ourselves

If Winter Ends

poison oak

We are Nowhere and it's Now

Four Winds. I feel the need for a video...

First day of my life....truely bautiful and completely heart renching....that feeling when you think a funny moment is about to take away everything that you have and you vow to change back to yourself

This is the first day of my life
Swear I was born right in the doorway
I went out in the rain, suddenly everything changed
They're spreading blankets on the beach
Yours is the first face that I saw
I think I was blind before I met you
Now I don't know where I am, don't know where I've been
But I know where I want to go

And so I thought I'd let you know
That these things take forever, I especially am slow
But I realized that I need you
And I wondered if I could come home

Remember the time you drove all night
Just to meet me in the morning
And I thought it was strange, you said everything changed
You felt as if you'd just woke up

And you said, "This is the first day of my life.
I'm glad I didn't die before I met you.
But, now I don't care, I could go anywhere with you
And I'd probably be happy."

So if you wanna be with me
With these things there's no telling
We'll just have to wait and see
But I'd rather be working for a paycheck
Than waiting to win the lottery

Besides, maybe this time it's different
I mean I really think you like me

Oh what a beautiful morning.
oh what a beautiful day.
i have a beautiful feeling,
everythings going my way.

cant really choose one..but its between Lua, at the bottom of everything, first day of my life