| 21. Okkervil River - A Glow |
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Come into the den Come into the den You've got a glow You've got a glow Climb into my arms With blood on your clothes You've got a glow You've got a...
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| 22. Okkervil River - Last Love Song For Now |
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Take my sword from the slaughter. Melt it down into vapor, and my armor, too. I hear hot blood flap and flutter from your temple to shoulder, and all...
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| 23. Okkervil River - Listening To Otis Redding At Home During Christmas |
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Home is where beds are made and butter is added to toast. On a cold afternoon you can float room to room like a ghost. Take the cr?e out and argue...
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| 24. Okkervil River - Curse |
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Like a plastic doll that’s how you treat some people from your town. The daily life of evil never see the people on the street. There’s a curse...
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| 25. Okkervil River - Seas Too Far To Reach |
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The ladies in my dream are so obliging. They come on down to do the things I need. Whether skies are calm or cut apart by lightning, they’re always...
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| 26. Okkervil River - Missing Children |
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Kids get lost Lands out wandering Bigger, blacker, things go following Then into a patch of forest Somebody once planted for this Songs not over,...
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| 27. Okkervil River - Yellow |
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You can only talk so much about things that are never, ever going to happen. My brother’s at home with his dog and his cat and his wife is at a...
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| 28. Okkervil River - Another Radio Song |
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Sit back, no song is written, it's nothing you thought of yourself. It's just a ghost that came unbidden to this house. This infection gets stronger...
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| 29. Okkervil River - Satisfy You |
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I will satisfy you, if there's one thing I can do. How many come through who satisfy you, who satisfy you, who satisfy you? Lock the slamming door....
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| 30. Okkervil River - No Hidden Track |
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What if there's no hidden track No journey there, no journey back The rain falls down upon the same old grass The rain falls down, the rain falls...
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| 31. Okkervil River - No Key, No Plan |
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When I’m hosed and they're closing in, maybe only then, really, I’ll try to get right with myself. So I’ll grope down that ladder again, until...
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| 32. Okkervil River - Happy Hearts |
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Why must happy hearts break so hard, leave you curled up in the back seat of a car, staring up at the windshield? When will broken hearts learn how...
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| 33. Okkervil River - My Bad Days |
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Dear Mother, we’ve all got bad days, and I know you’ll understand. Where we open up a foreign door with a pair of foreign hands. Where we find...
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| 34. Okkervil River - This House Is Not A Home |
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Floating up to the top of the sea, sunlight and I’m sorry Chocolate and condolences from the boy who hit me Lying in an infirmary bed in the starch...
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| 35. Okkervil River - Maine Island Lovers |
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To cheat on Maine islands - days of laughter, nights of sighing. To love without ceasing - flowering orchards, salty sea-things. To say without...
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| 36. Okkervil River - Song About A Star |
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He cut your strings so that he could float - lit by lights, lifted by alcohol - over acres of loving coast, far away from your lonely ghost. Now...
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| 37. Okkervil River - Dead Dog Song |
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Sam, bless him, has died and left this home, the woodchucks running wild, the bushes overgrown. Slip unseen into the skein of trees, slide through...
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| 38. Okkervil River - Lady Liberty |
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You can wash out your lying eyes in the bathroom down the hall. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised. I guess I didn’t know you at all. I can picture...
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| 39. Okkervil River - And I Have Seen The World Of Dreams |
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And I have seen the world of dreams, fresh-flown through the trees then dropped off at the curb alive, have seen the world awake, and I don't know...
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| 40. Okkervil River - Dead Faces |
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And we have fun – we go laughing and running down to the water, there by the sea where the body just floats like a rowboat and the moon’s like a...
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