Conor Oberst and Gillian Welch - "Lua"

Conor Oberst is the main singer/songwriter in 'Bright Eyes' and along with releasing about ten albums under that name he has also released a couple of solo albums. I have already featured Bright Eyes on this blog so let's move on straight away to this song "Lua". It was released as a single simultaneously with the release of another single "Take It Easy (Love Nothing)" in 2004 and they ended up on the top two places of Billboard's Hot 100 Singles Sales respectively. He released two albums 'I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning' and 'Digital Ash in a Digital Urn' simultaneously not too long after the singles. "Lua" was also on the 'I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning' album and was a highlight on a near-perfect album. A new version featuring Gillian Welch was released on the Red Hot Organisation charity album 'Dark Was the Night' in 2009 and that alone was enough to attract my attention. Together Conor Oberst and Gillian Welch have given a bit of light to a very dark song of despair regarding a couple who suffer from depression and their drug dependancy to take away the pain. Shit, it is still as dark as hell, to the point that you can still feel their pain, but Gillian Welch gives it a bit of freshness with the addition of her vocals.


(Lyrics)
Well, I know that it is freezing
But I think we'll have to walk
Keep waving at the taxis
They keep turning their lights off
But Julie knows a party
At some actor's West Side loft
Supplies are endless in the evening
By the morning they'll be gone

When everything is lonely
I can be my own best friend
Get a coffee and the paper
Have my own conversations
With the sidewalk and the pigeons
And my window reflection
The mask I polish in the evening
By the morning looks like shit

And I know you have a heavy heart
I can feel it when we kiss
And many men stronger than me
Have thrown their backs out trying to lift it
But me, I'm not a gamble
You can count on me to split
The love I sell you in the evening
By the morning won't exist

You're looking skinny like a model
With your eyes all painted black
Keep going to the bathroom
Always say you'll be right back
Well, it takes one to know one, kid
I think you've got it bad
But what's so easy in the evening
By the morning's such a drag

I've got a flask inside my pocket
We can share it on the train
And if you promise to stay conscious
I will try and do the same
Yeah, we might die from medication
But we sure killed all the pain
But what was normal in the evening
By the morning seems insane

And I'm not sure what the trouble was
That started all of this
The reasons all have run away
But the feeling never did
It's not something I would recommend
But it is one way to live
Because what is simple in the moonlight
By the morning never is

Yeah, it was simple in the moonlight
Now it's so complicated
It was so simple in the moonlight
So simple in the moonlight
So simple in the moonlight