List of songs recorded by Bright Eyes
Complete alphabetical listing of every song performed by the band Bright Eyes.A
- "Act of Contrition"
- "All of the Truth"
- "Amy in the White Coat"
- "Another Travelin' Song"
- "Approximate Sunlight"
- "Arc of Time "
- "Arienette"
- "At the Bottom of Everything"
- "An Attempt to Tip the Scales"
- "Away in a Manger"
- "Awful Sweetness of Escaping Sweat"
B
- "Bad Blood"
- "Beginner's Mind"
- "The Big Picture"
- "Black Comedy"
- "Blue Angels Air Show"
- "Blue Christmas"
- "Bowl of Oranges"
- "Burn Rubber"
C
- "The Calendar Hung Itself..."
- "Cartoon Blues"
- "A Celebration Upon Completion"
- "The Center of the World"
- "The City Has Sex"
- "Clairaudients "
- "Classic Cars"
- "Cleanse Song"
- "Coat Check Dream Song"
- "Contrast and Compare"
- "Coyote Song"
- "Cremation"
D
- "Devil in the Details"
- "Devil Town"
- "The Difference in the Shades"
- "Don't Know When But a Day's Gonna Come"
- "Down in a Rabbit Hole"
- "Driving Fast Through a Big City at Night"
- "Drunk Kid Catholic"
E
- "Easy/Lucky/Free"
- "Emily, Sing Something Sweet"
- "Empty Canyon, Empty Canteen"
- "Endless Entertainment"
- "Entry Way Song"
- "Exaltation on a Cool Kitchen Floor"
F
- "Falling Out of Love at this Volume"
- "False Advertising"
- "Feb. 15th"
- "The 'Feel Good' Revolution"
- "Feeling It "
- "Few Minutes on Friday"
- "Firewall"
- "First Day of My Life"
- "The First Noël"
- "Four Winds"
- "From a Balance Beam"
G
- "Go Find Yourself a Dry Place"
- "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen"
- "Going for the Gold"
- "Gold Mine Gutted"
H
- "Haile Selassie"
- "Haligh, Haligh, a Lie, Haligh"
- "Happy Accident"
- "Happy Birthday to Me" "
- "Have You Ever Heard Of Jandek Before?"
- "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas"
- "Hit the Switch"
- "Hot Knives"
- "How Many Lights Do You See?"
- "Hungry for a Holiday"
I
- "I'll Be Your Friend"
- "I've Been Eating "
- "I Believe in Symmetry"
- "I Know You"
- "I Must Belong Somewhere"
- "I Watched You Taking Off"
- "I Will Be Grateful for This Day, I Will Be Grateful for Each Day to Come"
- "I Woke Up with this Song in My Head this Morning"
- "I Won't Ever Be Happy Again"
- "If the Brakeman Turns My Way"
- "If Winter Ends"
- "In the Real World"
- "The Invisible Gardener"
- "It's Cool, We Can Still Be Friends"
J
- "Jejune Stars"
- "Jetsabel Removes the Undesirables"
- "The Joy in Discovery"
- "The Joy in Forgetting/The Joy in Acceptance"
- "June on the West Coast"
K
- "Kathy with a K's Song"
L
- "Ladder Song"
- "Lake Havasu "
- "Landlocked Blues"
- "Laura Laurent"
- "Let's Not Shit Ourselves "
- "Let the Distance Bring Us Together"
- "Light Pollution"
- "Lila"
- "Lime Tree"
- "A Line Allows Progress, a Circle Does Not"
- "Little Drummer Boy"
- "Loose Leaves" ''
- "Lover I Don't Have to Love"
- "Lovers Turn Into Monsters"
- "Lua"
M
- "A Machine Spiritual "
- "Make a Plan to Love Me"
- "Make War"
- "Man Named Truth"
- "Messenger Bird's Song"
- "Method Acting"
- "Middleman"
- "Mirrors and Fevers"
- "Motion Sickness"
- "The Movement of a Hand"
- mushaboom
N
- "Napoleon's Hat"
- "Neely O'Hara"
- "A New Arrangement"
- "The Night Before Christmas"
- "No Lies, Just Love"
- "No One Would Riot For Less"
- "No Prayer"
- "North of the City"
- "Nothing Gets Crossed Out"
O
- "Oh Little Town of Bethlehem"
- "Oh, You Are the Roots That Sleep Beneath My Feet and Hold the Earth in Place"
- "Old Soul Song "
- "On My Way to Work"
- "One for You, One for Me"
- "One Foot in Front of the Other"
- "One Straw "
P
- "Padraic My Prince"
- "Patient Hope in New Snow"
- "A Perfect Sonnet"
- "Pioneer's Park "
- "A Poetic Retelling of an Unfortunate Seduction"
- "Poison Oak"
- "Puella Quam Amo Est Pulchra"
- "Pull My Hair"
R
- "Racing Towards The New" )
- "Reinvent the Wheel"
- "Road to Joy"
S
- "Saturday As Usual"
- "A Scale, a Mirror and Those Indifferent Clocks"
- "Seashell Tale"
- "Shell Games"
- "Ship in a Bottle"
- "Silent Night"
- "Singularity"
- "Silver Bells"
- "Smoke Without Fire"
- "Solid Jackson"
- "Something Vague"
- "A Song to Pass the Time"
- "Soon You Will Be Leaving Your Man"
- "Soul Singer in a Session Band"
- "Southern State"
- "Spent on Rainy Days"
- "A Spindle, a Darkness, a Fever, and a Necklace"
- "Spring Cleaning"
- "Stray Dog Freedom"
- "Sunrise, Sunset"
- "Supriya"
- "Susan Miller Rag"
T
- "Take It Easy "
- "Tereza and Tomas"
- "Theme From Pinata"
- "Time Code"
- "Touch"
- "Tourist Trap"
- "Train Under Water"
- "Trees Get Wheeled Away"
- "Triple Spiral"
- "True Blue"
V
- "The Vanishing Act"
W
- "Waste of Paint"
- "We Are Free Men"
- "We Are Nowhere and It's Now"
- "Weather Reports"
- "Well Whiskey"
- "When the Curious Girl Realizes She Is Under Glass"
- "When the Curious Girl Realizes She Is Under Glass Again"
- "When the President Talks to God"
- "White Christmas"
Y
- "You Get Yours"
- "You Will. You? Will. You? Will. You? Will."
Notable covers
- "Big Old House" – originally by Jesse Harris
- "The Biggest Lie" – originally by Elliott Smith
- "Burn Rubber" – originally by Simon Joyner
- "Crazy As a Loon" – originally by John Prine
- "Devil Town" – originally by Daniel Johnston
- "I Woke Up With This Song in My Head This Morning" – originally by The Bruces
- "Joy Division" – originally by Simon Joyner
- "Metal Firecracker" – originally by Lucinda Williams
- "Mushaboom" – originally by Feist
- "Out on the Weekend" – originally by Neil Young
- "Papa Was a Rodeo" – originally by The Magnetic Fields
- "Sharp Cutting Wings " – originally by Lucinda Williams
- "Walls" – originally by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers