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Bright Eyes - Four Winds [Official Music Video]
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Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS
Bright Eyes
Bright Eyes
Performer
Conor Oberst
Conor Oberst
Vocals
Mike Mogis
Mike Mogis
Mandolin
Andy LeMaster
Andy LeMaster
Vocals
Maria Taylor
Maria Taylor
Vocals
Dan McCarthy
Dan McCarthy
Bass
Anton Patzner
Anton Patzner
Violin
Jason Boesel
Jason Boesel
Drums
Nate Walcott
Nate Walcott
Organ
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Conor Oberst
Conor Oberst
Songwriter
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Mike Mogis
Mike Mogis
Producer

Lyrics

Your class, your caste, your country, sect, your name or your tribe
There's people always dying trying to keep them alive
There are bodies decomposing in containers tonight
In an abandoned building where
The squatters made a mural of a Mexican girl
With 15 cans of spray paint in a chemical swirl
She's standing in the ashes at the end of the world
Four winds blowing through her hair
But when great Satan's gone
The whore of Babylon
She just can't sustain
The pressure where it's placed
She caves
The Bible's blind, the Torah's deaf, the Qu'ran is mute
If you burned them all together, you'd get close to the truth
Still, they're pouring over sanskrit under ivy league moons
While shadows lengthen in the sun
Cast on a school of meditation built to soften the times
And hold us at the center while the spiral unwinds
It's knocking over fences, crossing property lines
Four winds, cry until it comes
And it's the Sum of Man
Slouching towards Bethlehem
A heart just can't contain
All of that empty space
It breaks, it breaks, it breaks
Well I went back by rented Cadillac and company jet
Like a newly orphaned refugee retracing my steps
All the way to Cassadega to commune with the dead
They said, You'd better look alive
Now it's off to old Dakota where a genocide sleeps
In the Black Hills, the Badlands, the calloused East
I've buried my ballast, I made my peace
Heard four winds leveling the pines
But when great Satan's gone
The whore of Babylon
She just can't remain
With all that outer space
She breaks, she breaks, she caves, she caves
Written by: Conor M Oberst
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