140 Quotes by Will Oldham

Today was another day full of dread,But I never said I was afraid.Dread and fear should not be confused;By dread I'm inspired, by fear I'm amused.

There is hate in my heartThis is how my day startsThere is blood on my handsFrom the murder of a manAnd this is how I start another day in my kingdom

I am drinking againI'm on my seventh cold glass of ginLife is a tribute to youAnd so is dyingAnd drinking in this wayTo die is what I'm tryingI am drinking againI'm on my ninth cold glass of gin

I was drunk at the pulpit, I knew it was wrong.And I left in mid-sermon, tempted by a bar-house song.The pews they creaked and shifted as they turned to watch me leave,And I pulled a little bottle from the pocket in my sleeve.

And quiet eluded me, and keeps from me still, though I need my own bed and its solace.Day's noises steal in and copper my will, and I face the evils that follow us.

If you love wind, Or morning or night,If you are kind,And get lit up by lightThen you're bound to be put down at any cost.And if you listen to meYou are lost.

It is more rewarding to be complicit with scarcity than excess.

If you’re careful, you can be welcomed into natural systems, ecosystems, societal systems. But it sometimes feels like it would be more rewarding to be destroyed by a natural ecosystem than it would to be destroyed by a societal system…if you’re going to be destroyed.

This is the last song of its kind.Now you can be.Now you can be all that all your weakest love can findAin't it the best?Ain't it the best?