"And each morning she wakes / With a dream to describe / Something lovely that bloomed / In her beautiful mind."

— Oberst, Conor Mullen (b. 1980)


Date
January 25, 2005
Metaphor
"And each morning she wakes / With a dream to describe / Something lovely that bloomed / In her beautiful mind."
Metaphor in Context
And each morning she wakes
With a dream to describe
Something lovely that bloomed
In her beautiful mind

I say, "I'll trade you one
For two nightmares of mine,
I have somewhere I die,
I have somewhere we all die."
Categories
Provenance
Reading
Citation
Conor Oberst, Bright Eyes. "Hit the Switch," Digital Ash in a Digital Urn (January 25, 2005).
Date of Entry
07/28/2014

The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.