When You Write A Song,

And I Sing And Sing Of Awful Things The Pleasure That My Sadness Brings.

I Went Right From Wunderkind To Washed Up. Old. Been Around Too Long. That's Just The Way I Feel. That's My Internal Dialogue.

It's In Vogue To Have A Cause And Give Money In Charity. But To Actually Speak Up And Say Something Like, I'm Pissed About This" - That Doesn't Seem To Be Very Popular Unless You're Writing A Blog Or Tweeting.

We're All Too Busy Working, Entertaining Ourselves With Forty Hours, Television And Prescription Pills Well, I Take Two A Day To Help My Brain Behave It Never Does, But Who's To Say? At Least My Doctor Gets Paid.

To Outsiders It Probably Seems Like Splitting Hairs, But To Me, Bright Eyes Is A Simply The Collaboration Between Myself And Mike Mogis And Nate Walcott. What You Hear Is Definitely The Sum Of All Our Ideas And Represents All Three Of Us. But I Still Write The Songs Myself.