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“Each Desaparecidos's song has a seed that it came from. We're trying to take that and broaden it out and make it resonate with people.” quote by Conor Oberst — Download Open image

“Each Desaparecidos's song has a seed that it came from. We're trying to take that and broaden it out and make it resonate with people.”

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Every time I finish a song... most of the time it's in my own head, like this sounds too much like a Townes Van Zandt song, or whoever. I realize there are so many melodies and chord progressions in pop and rock music that are so similar that you can kind of trace it back to other things. Most of…

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Cause I swear that I'm dying, slowly but its happening.

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To finish a song is the best feeling in the world.

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