From Conor’s emotion pouring into each breath he takes, to the words pounding into your heart as they flow off his lips, “No Lies, Just Love” is a masterpiece. The song takes you deep into a seventeen year old Conor ridden with depression, loneliness, and no sense of belonging. As you listen you follow the journey of Conor as he debates suicide indirectly, and love ever so directly. The song gets progressively darker leading up to the beautiful line:
My salvation it came, quite suddenly
When Justin spoke very plainly
He said “Of course it’s your decision,
But just so you know,
If you decide to leave,
Soon I will follow”
At the moment these words come off of his tongue and into my ears i immediately feel a sense of sadness, joy, and raw love all battling each other. He goes onto dabble in the idea of salvation and purity. The most beautiful song I’ve heard in my time on this earth, Conor Oberst has written literature to be reveled about for decades.
I will be pure
No, no, I know i will be pure
Like snow, like gold
Matthew
Matthew's thoughts. 