Okkervil River

Okkervil River - The Valley:

Lyrics:

We watch the sun switching in the sky, off and on, where
our friend stands bleeding on the late summer lawn, a
slicked back bloody black gunshot to the head. He has
fallen in the valley of the rock and roll dead.

I hear a breeze that wheezes through the tips of the pines,
where there's laughter and screaming to the rafters in the
night. The moon rolls dreaming through the late spring
sky, where our friend lies bleeding through his jacket and
tie. A slit throat makes a note like a raw winter wind. We
were piled in the river with the rock and roll skinned. Times ten.

Like the water loves lapping at the skin of the shore, hear
our friend come tapping at the latches on the door. Like a
foot slips, slapping on the ladder's last rung, we were
thrashing in the clatter of the rock and roll hung.

It's just a loud crowd crush. It's just a thrush, seen flying
through the late autumn dusk for the very last time. It's
just a busted-up body in the dust of the last road out of the
city, when the city explodes. Light grows, and the light
grows bright, and red-tinged. We were fallen on the
border with the rock and roll singed. Times ten. Times
ten. Times ten. Times ten. Times ten. Times ten. Times
ten. Times ten. Times ten. Times ten.

Okkervil River

Okkervil River - Bruce Wayne Campbell Interviewed On The Roof Of The Chelsea Hotel, 1979:

Lyrics:

Pull down the shades, lets kill the morning
Lets kill the morning, let it die
Will your eyes flash out a warning
But they'll be another morning after afternoon and tonight
Fuck long hours sick with singing
Sick with singing the same songs
In the bars, they'll soon be drinking
Lets cash my check and drink along

Old times, hello, hey, I've missed you
Old life, hey now, let me in
Because you win on every issue
Now, can I kiss you?
Don't you care how long it's been?
It has been so many years, I lived my yearning
But in every bed, it led me through
They only bloom on what was burning
And it grew, the fire grew
And now with nothing to consume
It's turned on me in my glass room
Where I'll burn, you think I'm finished
Think I'm not winning
Well, go on, assume

So, take me, I'm yours, morning starship
Sparkling stars line your lights as they lift off the loneliest street corner
This clown has yet leaned against
I'll let all these fine faces fold into me
The warmth from the space lights illumines the sea as the laughingest mouths wetly open,
But we set them sighing
We'll take them flying
And we'll take this man left almost passed out
Cause we're pretty sure he needs a hand
He says he can't stand
And when we pick him up
He asks us where this ship will land
But he knows we know it isn't coming down
He knows we know we'll fly so far
'Til finally stars hold him in all around
'Til he forgets the ground
'Til he forgets the crawling way
Real people sometimes are

Okkervil River

Okkervil River - Wake And Be Fine:

Lyrics:

Someone said to me, 

“I’ll come into your dream and speak it to you.” 

I already knew. 

I found her in an attic where, dramatically, she leaned in to me, 

and she whispered these lines: 

“Wake and be fine. 

You’ve still got time 

to wake and be fine.”

Embracers meet with more embracers in the street. 

They say, “Hold me, dear stranger. 

Grab on to me. 

We’re carrying our years around us, or they’re chasing down us. 

We’re all here at the same time. 

Can we wake and be fine? Have we still got time 

to wake and be fine??”

Villians on the creep and killers in the crowd 

are carving apart 

our childhood house. 

Lovers in their sheets, dreaming lovers sweetly turn in their sleep 

all under sunbeams. 

Everybody’s crashing, running, calling out the coming of things 

they kind of can see. 

Someone said to me, “It’s just a dream. Why don’t you wake up and you’ll see? It’s fine.”

In those miles racing over endless fields of snow 

(you already heard, you already know)

the rescue party finally lost their hearts

and then they shattered their bones

and then they died all alone. 

The ships all float from beaches by themselves above the hot afternoons. (Goodbye, you balloons!)

 Adrift above indifferent clouds. 

Our hearts are crashing loudly on some rock where the gulls whine

“Wake and be fine.”

Okkervil River

Okkervil River - Piratess:

Lyrics:

Who wrote those lines on the wall? Let's retrace where they scrawled ancient characters. 

It's 2:00, and you sister's slip falls, and the afternoon crawls across the room and tackles her. 

I don't think that you would sink that ship that's only passing through, 

because I don't believe that you might be a murderess. 

But I saw inside each small, dark eye, as it was turning blue, 

all the strength inside to do just what the captain says and hang the rest.

Moved by the rhyme in the psalm, we agreed that it was wrong, and to believe in it. 

Oooh!, swooned the wall all night long. But a lie's a lie, no matter what guy's breath's in it. 

I don't know that I would go that far down some dark avenue, 

with a whispering crew of shadows all protecting it. 

But I saw inside each small white lie, as it was turning true, 

the ability to do all things expected of it.

Oh, murderess, in the wilderness. With your victims all around you. 

As their combined love forms a pool your knife's reflected in, 

And now I'm ready, too, with my throat to you. 

On this mountain. By this moon. 

And what I want the most to do is prove that I'm not like them.

Okkervil River

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