Conor Oberst Danny Callahan Lyrics

Danny Callahan Lyrics

Green world, love the chloroform

Front porch in the thunderstorm

Controlled chaos, confused energy



Stop reading the weather charts

Stop counting the playing cards

There's no system, there's no guarantees



That the love you feel you carry inside can be passed

But you try, I know you do, you still talk to your plants

Ask how are you getting on, alone?



Some wander the wilderness

Some drink cosmopolitans

Some cold science, some glean astroplanes



I can't tell where the camera stops

Homesick as an astronaut

Just keep drifting but still can't explain



How the love we feel we carry inside can be passed

See a brother in the gutter you reach out your hand

Ask how are you getting on, alone?



What gage measures miracles?

And whose heartbeat's electrical?

We feign sickness with our modern joy



But even western medicine

It couldn't save Danny Callahan

Bad bone marrow, a bald little boy



But the love we feels he carries inside can be passed

He lay still, his mother kissed him goodbye said, comeback

Where are you going to alone?

Where are you going all alone?