Bright Eyes performs "Let's Not Shit Ourselves" with Ben Kweller at NYC show

After being forced to postpone the show from last week due to severe storms , Bright Eyes played their first of three special shows celebrating 21 years of their 2005 albums I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning and Digital Ash in a Digital Urn at Red Rocks in Morrison, CO. They played I’m Wide Awake from beginning to end first, followed by a set from Ben Kweller , then came back out for Digital Ash . It was the first time they’d played some of those songs in 20 years or more, including “Time Code, “Devil in the Details,” “Ship in a Bottle,” and “Theme from Pinata,” and the first time they’d played “Arc of Time (Time Code)” since 2011.

Bright Eyes began their encore with an instrumental version of “America the Beautiful,” set to projections of messages calling for the abolishment of ICE and giving information about slavery and immigration. Then they played a couple of non-2005 songs, LIFTED ‘s “Lover I Don’t Have to Love” and Cassadaga ‘s “Make a Plan to Love Me,” before closing out the night with Kweller joining them on another LIFTED track, “Let’s Not Shit Ourselves (To Love and to Be Loved.” See the full setlist and attendee-taken video below.

Bright Eyes have two more Wide Awake / Lifted shows coming up, at Los Angeles’ Hollywood Bowl on May 23 (with The Moldy Peaches ) and NYC’s Forest Hills Stadium on June 6 (with Built to Spill ).

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SETLIST: BRIGHT EYES @ RED ROCKS AMPHITHEATER, 5/12/2026

At the Bottom of Everything

We Are Nowhere and It’s Now

Old Soul Song (for the New World Order)

Lua

Train Under Water

First Day of My Life

Another Travelin’ Song

Land Locked Blues

Poison Oak

Road to Joy

Digital Ash in a Digital Urn

Gold Mine Gutted

Arc of Time (Time Code)

Down in a Rabbit Hole

Take It Easy (Love Nothing)

Hit the Switch

I Believe in Symmetry

Devil in the Details

Ship in a Bottle

Light Pollution

Theme From Pinata

Easy/Lucky/Free

Encore:

America the Beautiful (instrumental)

Lover I Don’t Have to Love

Make a Plan to Love Me

Let’s Not Shit Ourselves (To Love and to Be Loved)

_Originally reported by [Brooklyn Vegan](https://www.brooklynvegan.com/bright-eyes-brought-out-ben-kweller-for-lets-not-shit-ourselves-at-1st-of-3-wide-awake-digital-ash-shows/)._