Bright Eyes - I Must Belong Somewhere

[@bloodSCARSandMCR]

I surprised myself by remembering every word and inflection after nearly 5 years of not hearing this... i will always be grateful for this man and his mind. Even if he never accepts that.

[@joellazcano2192]

I have been looking for this version of this song since I was like 13

[@Xanthopathy]

congrats

[@TheTotox666]

There's no way I could go months- or even weeks without Bright Eyes. I crave his voice and lyrics.

[@a7ukgc8x9m4h]

You still stand by that?

[@IndieIncendiary]

I felt the same way for a long time. Then I stopped listening to Bright Eyes as constantly and I felt... happier? It's comforting to find solace in music that delves into these real and important feelings of blueness we all share. Though it's just like this song says: everything must belong somewhere. We should try to move forward with our lives and be happy, but this meaningful music will always be here for us to return to if and when we need it!

[@RandySavagxe]

@@IndieIncendiarythat’s because you started ignoring that part of you consciousness screaming out for help. He’s screaming because he sees the hopelessness of the situation of humanity. Humans want to cure suffering but in our attempt we only cause it in other areas.

[@TastyKibble14]

Leave the bright blue door on the whitewashed wall. Leave the death ledger under City Hall. Leave the joyful air in that rubber ball today. Leave the lilac print on the linen sheet. Leave the birds you killed at your father's feet. Let the sideways rain and the crooked street remain. Leave the whimpering dog in his cold kennel. Leave the dead star lit on her pedestal. Leave the acid kids in their green fishbowls today. Just leave the sad guitar in its hard-shelled case. Leave the worried look on your lover's face. Let the orange embers in the fireplace remain. Cause everything - it must belong somewhere. A train off in the distance; bicycle chained to the stairs. Everything - it must belong somewhere. I know that now - that's why I'm staying here. Leave the ocean's roar in the turquoise shell. Leave the widower in his private hell. Leave the liberty in that broken bell today. Leave the epic poem on its yellow page. Leave the gray macaw in his covered cage. Let the traveling band on the interstate remain. Cause everything - it must belong somewhere. Soundstage in California; televisions in Times Square. Everything - it must belong somewhere. I know that now - that's why I'm staying here. Leave the secret talks on the trundle bed. Leave the garden tools in the rusted shed. Leave those bad ideas in your troubled head today. Leave the restless ghost in his old hotel. Leave the homeless man in his cardboard cell. Let the painted horse on the carousel remain. Cause everything - it must belong somewhere. Just like the gold around her finger or the silver in his hair. Everything - it must belong somewhere. I know that now - that's why I'm staying here. In truth, the forest hears each sound - each blade of grass as it lies down. The world requires no audience - no witnesses...no witnesses. Leave the old town drunk on his wooden stool. Leave the autumn leaves in the swimming pool. Leave the poor black child in his crumbling school today. Leave the novelist in his daydream tune. Leave the scientist in his Rubik's Cube. Let the true genius in the padded room remain. Leave the horse's hair on the slanted bow. Leave the slot machines on the river boat. Leave the cauliflower in the casserole today. Leave the hot, bright trash in the shopping malls. Leave the hawks of war in their capitol. Let the organ's moan in the cathedral remain. Cause everything - it must belong somewhere. They locked the devil in the basement; threw God up into the air. Everything - it must belong somewhere. And you know it's true - I wish you'd leave me here. You know it's true - why don't you leave me here?

[@SomeGuy3377]

Thank you for sharing the lyrics.

[@biankyflowers4829]

I love getting lost in Connor's music and lyrics. As a 20-something trying to adult it up, it's such a great solace to find someone who somehow gets it all. I don't do it all the time but Bright Eyes and Connor Oberst is like this tree hollow I always go back to whenever things gets way too much. Sure it gets dark, but there's comfort in it.

[@animalmother1065]

Sweet recording, more bare-bones than the studio recording. I really enjoy it when Bright Eyes has that "unplugged" sound.

[@Punkiboo]

"Let the true genius, in the padded room, remain." That verse really means alot to me haha ^^

[@klarolivia]

That's one of the lines I thought the most of after the first listen ... And it's so true, in a way ! If you think of it, many people locked in a padded cell, behind the insanity, is pure geniuses, and nobody's listening to them!

[@sonshineoh]

Here's to still trying to figure it out.

[@slayer1201ful]

Live because we don't always have answers

[@sonshineoh]

I found the answers written on a bathroom wall once.

[@slayer1201ful]

Funny

[@sonshineoh]

I'm dead inside.

[@slayer1201ful]

I am to at times. I am to :/

[@ayalabestiah]

all bright eyes songs on youtube should have videos with this exact solid background and text

[@x46andtwo]

Lovely song about how nobody will ever live up to whats expected of them. At least thats my take. Why I love Connors music, can always take it as you wish.

[@tyleranderson3776]

i used drinky crow as my avatar somewhere so long i just read this thinking i wrote it

[@AshArAis]

Connors with two n's is a surname, Conor with one n is a first name

[@blr2352]

There are people named Sharkiesha...there are no rules

[@louieo.blevinsmusic2011]

@@AshArAis Elliott Smith said eff that. lol

[@SomethingAboutMars]

The day this was uploaded - was the day my life began a downward spiral into oblivion... RIP - CML (aka Human Salvation) If I didn't have to struggle through the hell your suicide made of my life, I wouldn't be where I am emotionally today. -I know that now, that's why I'm staying here.

[@user-lb7zw5bb7n]

+St King All we can do is accept and use our experiences to grow, I hope you keep positive and use the darkness in your past as strength for the future. You'll be okay man

[@josefineflygge]

He is a lyrical genius.

[@josefineflygge]

"the true genius in his padded room"

[@adamprivett4779]

Don't isolate a genius! He'll be fine, I think, but I haven't googled him.

[@israelcastelan4012]

i totally forgot about this song! I rediscovered it today :) I still remember the comments that were left here! wow, this is the win i needed.

[@NatalieOlivia]

His voice makes me feel like I'm spinning :)

[@SelfAware1]

OMAHA winters are the time for Bright Eyes music!

[@kayyyp55]

yay for music that actually has meaning and depth:)

[@danielgray65]

Schrodinger's Ode -- or how to embrace hard determinism :-) Love you, Conor.

[@CattyKittyful]

I wish I could replay this a thousand times. Oh wait, I did...

[@Supersnazzypunk]

This song is fraking amazing.

[@miguelurena374]

Always makes me feel better

[@ydoch1]

Love this song been listening to it all day

[@girlsatimebombxx]

you're quite right. but in a way, he is our generations' folk hero.

[@Garciaforever1993]

Thank you, this is why I bother reading comments on great artist like modest mouse n bright eyes.

[@Cr4nched]

I've never heard this version! amazing

[@brainsgettintoohot]

I keep playing this song over and over again because I cant grab onto the feeling it plunges down and rips out of me. its like when you eat something and you cant describe the taste cause youve never eaten anything like it before thats what its like listening to this song. but instead of taste buds bursting and shivering on my tongue its my heart.

[@IxGaarAxI]

Does such a great job at making me wanna disturb everything

[@darkened93]

This is the only way this song can be heard. i like.

[@7s7rg77]

this song is incredible

[@josef23819]

Beautiful simply beautiful

[@victorbuehler9482]

Conner sees and sings about the irony of our "modern, industrialized, materialistic" culture. He, I am guessing, would have been comfortable and well received in the late sixties, early seventies, as well as in 1775.

[@blkstation666]

leave that worried look on your lovers face..perfect

[@MyMooooooooooooooooo]

this is love. i profess eternity for Bright Eyes. ahahaha.

[@sweetwheat123]

Seriously you couldn't have said it better!

[@CatalytsCrayons]

While everyone else argues, I'm gonna smoke a spliff while I listen to this song.

[@TrevorCourneen]

Conor Oberst is beyond amazing. He simultaneously makes me want to quit songwriting forever and try harder and harder every day to be better at it.

[@keely8485]

Let The Traveling Band On The Interstate Remain!❤❤🤘

[@Finnigamos]

I cant listen to Bright Eyes anymore right now... Bright Eyes binges make me SOOO SAD.

[@cynnybobinny]

@PickledPorpoise beautiful! made my day today :)

[@mara235]

Amazing amazing - speak to me!

[@cateyyy567]

I feel exactly the same.

[@magicfridj]

Neither do I, but I still like this song!

[@ThePerfectSonnet]

i know ! its amazing

[@MEbrickCo]

I'm not sure what a trundle bed is, but I love it!

[@emilyfisher2052]

A trundle bed is the bed that can be pulled out from underneath a day bed :)

[@zealobiron]

Built one for my girls!

[@Xanthopathy]

@@zealobiron nice

[@bourgoinm1]

Pure genius

[@dagobahsystem]

I miss you Jules..... x

[@TheRocker29]

@TrevorCourneen i couldn't agree more thats the perfect way to explain it

[@Somone23]

" theres no right way or wrong way you just have to live, what can mean more than this?"- conor

[@green32810]

todaaaaaay!

[@christopherkersey7449]

I must belong somewhere. I think i'll go everywhere to find that place

[@roiybenkel682]

Leave the bright blue door on the whitewashed wall Leave the death ledger under city hall Leave the joyful air in that rubber ball today Just leave the lilac print on the linen sheet Leave the birds you killed at your father's feet Let the sideways rain in the crooked street remain Leave the whimpering dog in his cold kennel Leave the dead starlet on her pedestal Leave the acid kids in their green fishbowls today Leave the sad guitar in its hardshell case Leave the worried look on your lover's face Let the orange embers in the fireplace remain 'Cause everything it must belong somewhere A train off in the distance, bicycle chained to the stairs Everything it must belong somewhere I know that now, that's why I'm staying here Leave the ocean's roar in the turquoise shell Leave the widower in his private hell Leave the liberty in that broken bell today Just leave the epic poem on its yellowed page Leave the gray macaw in his covered cage Let the traveling band on the interstate remain 'Cause everything it must belong somewhere Sound stage in California, televisions in Times Square Yeah, everything it must belong somewhere I know that now, that's why I'm staying here Well I know that now, that's why I'm staying here Leave the secret talks on the trundle bed Leave the garden tools in that rusted shed Leave those bad ideas in your troubled head today Just leave the restless ghost in his old hotel Leave the homeless man in that cardboard cell Let the painted horse on the carousel remain 'Cause everything it must belong somewhere Just like the gold around her finger or the silver in his hair Yeah, everything it must belong somewhere I know that now, that's why I'm staying here Oh I know that now, that's why I'm staying here In truth the forest hears each sound Each blade of grass as it lies down The world requires no audience No witnesses, no witnesses Leave the old town drunk on his wooden stool Leave the autumn leaves in their swimming pool Leave the poor black child in his crumbling school today Leave the novelist in his daydream tune Leave the scientist in her Rubik's cube Let the true genius in the padded room remain Leave the horse's hair on the slanted bow Leave the slot machines on the riverboat Leave the cauliflower in the casserole today Just leave the hot bright trash in the shopping malls Leave the hawks of war in their capitols Let the organ's moan in the cathedral remain 'Cause everything it must belong somewhere They locked the Devil in the basement, threw God up into the air Yeah, everything it must belong somewhere You know it's true, I wish you'd leave me here Now you know it's true, why don't you leave me here?

[@1Skyheart]

Leave the cauliflower in the casserole...I died laughing

[@kathrynhettinger1321]

18 people belong somewhere else.

[@danamelbamakebashillingfor6761]

25 of them today....

[@DigitalAshTCG]

26 now

[@justanotherdump-ft5rf]

its been years now hopefully you guys have finally found your place

[@BackToFiction]

Where is this acoustic version from? I can't find it anywhere....

[@israelcastelan4012]

ive always wondered this. I just rediscovered this song like a month ago after a couple years. I was listening to the album and the lyrics sounded so familiar and then i checked the song name and it all came back. Nonetheless, I'm glad this version exists.

[@SerenityMoon]

I fakking looooooove it.

[@purplexskunk]

'the world requires no audience' - thats deep, and makes me wonder if it would be better off that way....

[@Musicmaster182]

I'm happy now.

[@littledroogie]

I saw Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band a couple nights ago and I'm gonna have to say I prefer Bright Eyes.

[@zd3007]

I think it's safe to add him to the list of greats. Smith (who I doubt will ever have a peer), Dylan, Guthrie, and Oberst? I'm sure I'm forgetting someone, but you get my point.

[@skumkwat2033]

"Party over here. I'll be over there." - Aesop Rock

[@amandaparker150]

I LISTENED TO BOTH SONGS TODAY

[@juliecostello42]

also especially this

[@Xmylife4hireX]

im the only one of my friends who like connor :[ they say his voice ruins the songs, but i say it only makes it better

[@zynstein]

"And I could have been a famous singer if I had someone elses voice but failure's always sounded better let's fuck it up boys, make some noise!"

[@ChristinaGummi]

I feel the EXACT same way :]

[@blahhayden]

"leave those bad ideas in your troubled head"

[@rad941205]

leave the widower in his private hell - amazing x

[@jessikachina]

the opening music reminds me of Simon and Garfunkel. Mmmm :)

[@klarolivia]

Is this from Cassadaga?

[@leslie2023]

❤

[@NaomiGoldstein7895]

RedRoosterbabam, ya, haha that's true...Most conor oberst songs are more mostly from the perspective in this song, which is good too. I mean life is a roller coaster it includes many different perspectives. It's good to see different sides of life in music. Without the bad parts of life, you can't appreaciate the good. xD *

[@shehanagins]

sounds like it could be dylan song i love it

[@edgein94]

They exist to make us feel better about ourselves. (Things aren't going so well, but atleast I don't dislike bright eyes.) :P

[@mdmayhew]

I think "Tallest Man on Earth" sounds more like dylan, lyrically as well even. Good stuff if you're a Dylan fan...

[@qwertygrl31597]

@Sharpoon i think this might be a live version. maybe off of Motion Sickness?

[@ShyWallflower]

can i please write this well..just please..

[@mikekelley]

well done man. you've got conor's voice down.

[@YimYamesPlease]

Hahahahaha leave the acid kids in their green fish bowls. I can imagine people trippin sayin "Dude, are we in a fucking fish bowl?"

[@wherrera88]

itd be nice to believe i belonged somewhere

[@NeverShoutKaila]

@RedRockEmSockEm you just described my life perfectly

[@inkblackRose]

i must say that one of the things i love best about this song is that i feel not at all connected to its writer - that is to say, i love it and largely agree with it, but it doesn't feel like i agree with conor, per se. the artist is separated from the art and the viewer. comforting and unsettling simultaneously.

[@True_Lover_Man]

Well he's no dylan-cohen-stevens, but he is bright and warm

[@RageAgainstNWO]

@tobiosnmakky There are some people who never relize this

[@shadow528wolf]

@Wannabe581 lmao

[@illbeburningstar1]

Isnt everything must belong somewhere is this an earlyer version? Sounds like it atleast.

[@NaomiGoldstein7895]

I love the song and the sarcasm in the lyrics..."Leave the true genius to his padded rooms" and "Leave the poor black child in his crumbling school-todaayy". Beautiful Although I'm also a fan of the song Good Riddance- by Greenday (not saying I don't love this song) but that's more of the perspective on life I was expecting from the title haha, but there's nothing wrong with it. I thought it was gonna be like the song The Middle by Jimmy Eats World. I guess that's what most would expect. :]

[@lifeofagypsy79]

@RedRockEmSockEm I'm the same way!!

[@NatalieOlivia]

@xXSOhphieeXx No worries sweet :)

[@iTubeQQQQQ]

ohhh, can i have the mp3 too. it sounds different than the Cassadaga version, but oddly the same. what is that?

[@alaeth]

-3 -3 -3

[@MonsterMisunderstood]

hawks of war :) that's funny

[@Somone23]

@420WcW all music is music, me typing this is music, the wind is music, the snow is music. every song is just one long song. everything has been done before. people want to think they have prefrences and opinions. everyones a fucking critic. i'm a fucking critic. everything is everything. i am a bieber fan, i am a fan of all life. you see yourself in justin bieber and just don't want to admit it. We're all one so just let it be. just exist.

[@420WcW]

the 3 dislikes are Bieber Fans

[@LessCooLGirl]

Leave the barking for the ocean

[@michaelm4464]

Is this a demo or something? Sounds different.

[@ameliorated]

@PickledPorpoise just? realised? just?? hmm ok

[@NATEEEExD]

*15 a year later

[@alinarachelle04]

[@MadeFromLego]

I think he's a lot more like Daniel Johnston, not Dylan?

[@jackiereed61788]

Conor has never recorded a Bob Dylan cover.. so consider that.

[@GGprods-o2x]

lol how dare any one compare Connor to Dylan. These two are on totally different levels man.