"The brakeman was the person on the trains who changed the direction the train goes, back in the day when the hobos would jump on the backs of the trains. I just think of them as these lost souls who wanted to go somewhere and didn’t know where. They didn’t necessarily care where they’d end up - they just knew they had to leave, and they’d jump on the back of a train, and it was kind of all up to the brakeman, to fate, which direction you go."
- Conor Oberst on “If The Brakeman Turns My Way”
gatsby: hey i just met you
gatsby: and this is crazy
gatsby: but i'm going to spend most of my life and wealth in an attempt to pursue you for your stunning vapidness and the warped image of yourself created in my mind as a precursor to my eventual fall
gatsby: so call me maybe
