Don’t be a criminal in this police state.
You’d better shop and eat and pro-create.
You’d better shop and eat and pro-create.
Weary Conor Oberst talks of a doomy New Years Eve style countdown in the closing track of Bright Eyes’ experimental 2004 album Digital Ash in a Digital Urn
However, a lot of the lyrics, such as the lines shown above, are aimed at life rather than death. There seems to be an ongoing theme of how life today is just full of meaningless tasks to fill up the time we have, rather than being Easy/Lucky/Free. Whatever the true, exact meaning, it is a beautiful if gloomy song, and the lyrics are truely poetic.