Okkervil River Song

Lyrics

[Verse 1] Down by Okkervil River, slow silent thick and black I stared into the water and the water, it stared back The night it fell from tangles of the branches on the shore As it had on Okkervil River before [Verse 2] Down by Okkervil River, cigarettes and rusty tires We made ourselves an altar, we lit our nightly fires And the smoke lay thick and smothered all the skunk cabbage and vines Where gods were born and gods lay down to die [Verse 3] With your hand inside my pocket, you whispered in my ear "We've come from ugliness to find some refuge here With this bracken for a blanket, where these limbs stick out like bones We have found a place where we can be alone." Oh [Verse 4] And I tried to tell you as I kissed your hard dry lips All the things I dreamed about, I touched your bone white hips Far away our parents slept in as we watched our fire burn They dreamed of nothing and got nothing in return [Outro] And the water slipped on slowly past our bodies in the weeds Pulling plastic wrap and razors on its current through the reeds And I woke up one cold morning, felt an absence at my back And I searched and stared but only the river stared back And I searched and stared but only the river stared back And I searched and stared but only the river stared back