Next Of Kin Lyrics - Conor Oberst

I saw a crash on the interstate 

It left a feeling I could not shake 

Just a name in a database who must be notified 

It's not a phone call I wanna make 

A stranger answers, I hesitate 

Got some bad news that couldn't wait 

Are you sitting down? 

Her bathrobe hangs on the bedroom door 

Though she's been dead for a year or more 

He buried her by the sycamore 

So that he could keep her close 

It broke his heart and it made him old 

Tries to rebuild but it just erodes 

Some people say that's the way it goes 

But he don't feel that way 

Get too drunk and you can't perform 

Something dies when a star is born 

I spread my anger like Agent Orange 

I was indiscriminate 

Yeah, I met Lou Reed and Patty Smith 

It didn't make me feel different 

I guess I lost all my innocence 

Way too long ago 

She called my bluff and she won the fight 

I ran outside in the hot twilight 

I had a lighter that didn't light 

Well I know I shouldn't smoke 

I was going, I was free to leave 

Walking fast down the Bowery 

Tears in my eyes so I couldn't see 

But I made my way back home