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In Bright Eyes’ sad yet rather beautiful tune “Forced Convalescence”, Oberst reflects on his inability to clutch onto the past, his struggle with staying in the present, and his catastrophizing of his future. The song stems off of the idea of being stuck in bed due to an illness or injury and having...
[Verse 1]
Forced convalescence and bed rest
Staring contest
With the ceiling and my feet
Was momentarily conscious
Of the backflips
I've been doing in my sleep
I’m not afraid of the future
Have to suffer and repeat
I tend to agree
What happens will be
Pain of my own making
Cut short by eternity
[Verse 2]
Now I've recovered completely
Life is easy
Hula-hooping around the sun
The calendar's little boxes
All these presents
Get to open every one
I’ll be prepared for the winter
And the summer
And beyond
Just keep tagging along
Until the feeling is gone
Amazed by the haystack
Needle to oblivion
[Chorus 1]
In a daze
In the doorway
I stood crying for what was
In a trance
In a taxi
Just keep driving, please don't stop
Out of the neighborhood, the multiverse
Iron and rust
[Verse 3]
Went out of town for the weekend
With my children
Built sandcastles in the sun
Catastrophizing my birthday
Turning forty
Ending up like everyone
There's no escaping the housework
Or the bank clerk
Or the priest
They're waiting for me
In my Egyptian sheets
The Seroquel's working
It's fighting my fantasies
[Chorus 2]
In the dark
At a distance
I see everything at once
Feel the wind
Through the window
And I'm overcome with love
Inter-dimensional, no obstacles
Mountains and dust
Forced Convalescence was written by Conor Oberst.
Forced Convalescence was produced by Bright Eyes.
Bright Eyes released Forced Convalescence on Tue Apr 21 2020.
Obviously I had no idea this kind of thing [speaking of the COVID-19 pandemic] was going to happen when I was writing it, but anyone that’s been laid up in bed with an illness or an injury or anything like that, I think can relate to the first verse and the idea of you’re left with just your imagina...
One of my favourite memories of being in the studio with Flea and Jon was listening back to that song. They were really digging into that one.
It was really fun. I feel like those two dudes were really channelling this feeling of joy in music and it really stuck out to me in that song. Certainly fro...