Better Oblivion Community Center - Easy/Lucky/Free (Live on KEXP)

Host: Cheryl Waters
Audio Engineers: Julian Martlew & Andy D. Park
Audio Mixer: Andy D. Park
Cameras: Jim Beckmann, Alaia D'Alessandro & Justin Wilmore
Editor: Jim Beckmann

[HotStrange]

I remember being so touched by this song when it came out. I was in high school and this album and I’m Wide Awake It’s Morning changed my life and started a life long love for Conor Oberst. This version gives me the same chills. Love it.

[nicolec]

Wholeheartedly obsessed with everything Phoebe Bridgers has ever done. Also this is one of my favorite Bright Eyes songs

[fioregiallo]

Oh man when she talk-sings/screams I got CHILLS wow

[cezarregala]

Connor's "there is nothing"s are always a treat to the ears

[iNEEDANAPx]

I feel like him doing this, is so humbling.
He is so humble.
Ugh.

[merelymayhem]

i love the better oblivion community center version of easy/lucky/free, it sounds so good live

[adamnorris]

I feel like the only person in that room having more fun than Phoebe is the drummer.

[paulgreenleaf]

I love how Conor songs are always evolving live. . People like real shit Conors got that going on

[Couldnotexplain]

Phoebes voice in this song is amazing.

[clintwheeler]

They keep getting better and better. Not to my surprise.

[allisononeill]

I am only and always in love with every and all versions of this song!

[derekstitt]

Her beautiful singing over that grungy fucking guitar is magical 🖤🖤

[jaxmaberry]

Can they come out with a punk album now, I love hearing her sing like this

[Gabrielfi]

Did it all get real, I guess it's real enough
They got refrigerators full of blood
Another century spent pointing guns
At anything that moves

Sometimes I worry that I've lost the plot
My twitching muscles tease my flipping thoughts
I never really dreamed of Heaven much
Until we put him in the ground

But it's all I'm doing now
Listening for patterns in the sound
Of an endless static sea

But once the satellite's deceased
It blows like arbors through the streets
Of the night sky to infinity

But don't you weep
(Don't you weep for them)
Don't you weep
(Don't you weep)
There is nothing as lucky

Honey, don't you weep
(Don't you weep for them)
Don't you weep
(Don't you weep)
There is nothing as lucky, as easy and free

Don't be a criminal in this police state
You better shop and eat and procreate
You got vacation days then you might escape
To a condo on the coast

I set my watch to the atomic clock
I hear the crowd count down till the bomb gets dropped
I always figured that there'd be time enough
I never let it get me down

But I can't help it now
Looking for faces in the clouds
I got some friends I barely see

But we're all planning to meet
We'll lay in bags as dead as leaves
All together for eternity

But don't you weep
(Don't you weep for them)
Don't you weep
(Don't you weep)
There is nothing as lucky

Honey, don't you weep
(Don't you weep for them)
Don't you weep
(Don't you weep)
There is nothing as lucky, as easy or free
Or free, or free, or free

There's nothing
There's nothing
There's nothing...

[kiaora]

Can we take a minute and be grateful for not having a new senseless war with Iran this week.

[III-dbzz]

The ending that showed Conor’s guitar literally reminds me, or someone, of being released to space.

[plainpat]

This should have ten million views. Love this version.

[sarahbums]

i can't believe I'm 18 months late in finding this but....im hyperventilating

[subterreanhighrise]

Conor Oberst is one of the finest Songwriters of his generation. I would even go out on a limb and say he is on par with Elliott Smith.

[joeford]

this version brings me to tears every time