| 1. Okkervil River - The War Criminal Rises And Speaks |
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The heart wants to feel. The heart wants to hold. The heart takes past Subway, past Stop and Shop, past Beal’s, and calls it “coming home.” The...
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| 2. Okkervil River - A Favor |
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Rapt, in “Star Wars” sheets, with my hand across your belly, we waded through the watercolor. And drunk in your parents house, junk coming out of...
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| 3. Okkervil River - Disfigured Cowboy |
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Disfigured cowboy Mirror in pieces Hold the receiver Trace the police station lines to my number. Number my reasons for this paranoia for these...
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| 4. Okkervil River - He Passes Number Thirty-three |
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There's no beast, obviously. The floor just creaks, obviously. The morning with coffee was snowy and sweet, and there was this small, snow-white dog...
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| 5. Okkervil River - The Next Four Months |
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Maybe we could break your ankle, clean and unsuspiciously. An ER trip, a doctor's slip, and you could share your pills with me. Won't it feel so...
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| 6. Okkervil River - Blackest Coat |
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Wrap your blackest coat around your throat tonight. There's a brand-new tune around the moon tonight. And your father's standing by the water...
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| 7. Okkervil River - Dreadful Wind And Rain |
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There were two sisters came walkin' down the stream Oh the wind and rain The one behind pushed the other one in Cryin' oh the dreadful wind and rain ...
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| 8. Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy (black Sheep Boy Appendix) |
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Bleeding black sheep boy, mirror in pieces. Turn the receiver, trace the police station. Line to my number and number my reasons for this paranoia,...
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| 9. Okkervil River - Kathy Keller |
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Kathy Keller's only daughter, I've been bad, but I'm getting better. I seen you dancing with another man and he was holding your hand, but all dances...
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| 10. Okkervil River - Blanket And Crib |
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Safe, safe - enjoy your time feeling so safe, and treasure that smile on your face, okay? Because time will see that it’s replaced in a while. So...
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| 11. Okkervil River - For The Enemy |
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Oh, my enemy, you've got company, you're not alone. They're watching over me while each town you pass fades as it folds. So in the night we might get...
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| 12. Okkervil River - A Leaf |
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Jeremy Lee had an ice-creamery. On the evening of October 10th he lost fifty-five dollars and seventy cents, was shot twice in the chest and again in...
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| 13. Okkervil River - Just Give Me Time |
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This red-haired girl of mine tore a pinecone from the pine to cut into her palm, singing the song her sinking lover sung I shut my eyes, ripped the...
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| 14. Okkervil River - For Real |
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Some nights I thirst for real blood, for real knives, for real cries. And then the flash of steel from real guns in real life really fills my mind....
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| 15. Okkervil River - Oh, Precious |
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I live in a building where nobody knows me, I go to bed early, I sleep in my clothes. At night I hear screaming down in the street, I dream that I'm...
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| 16. Okkervil River - The Velocity Of Saul At The Time Of His Conversion |
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Loosen the wire, your time has expired, the only word left is "goodbye." In my new dream the light's shining on me; little needles of sodium unstitch...
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| 17. Okkervil River - Whole Wide World |
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You'd better wear a dress that covers up that bruise, how could I refuse your wish that I do that to you? You'd better take your face from every...
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| 18. Okkervil River - Auntie Alice |
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Auntie Alice, where are you now? We rung your number and they called it "disconnected." In a dream you come sailing out of a pool of deep blue water....
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| 19. Okkervil River - Nathan |
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There's a little town inside my head, children warm in little beds. Someone could have kept this town, but he went down, he went down, he went down...
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| 20. Okkervil River - 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....
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