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Bright Eyes – Let’s Not Shit Ourselves (To Love and Be Loved)

Album:: Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground
Year :: 2002
RIYL :: Elliott Smith / M. Ward / Deer Tick

Aug 29

Throughout the 10-minute runtime of Bright Eyes' "Let's Not Shit Ourselves" Connor Oberst vents enough piss and hate to in all directions to last an entire album. Why, then, is the song so strangely fun?

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