Тексты песен «Okkervil River»

'Once we get to the end of this song, then it will begin again.a'a So you said in our bed. I was watching light slip through blinds to find your skin. 'So take your medicine and I won't ask where you've been. Live your...

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 to heal? This boy I knew was five years older than me. His daddy'd left...

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 that was barking at our feet, honestly. drove all day to the vacant...

Black, black sheep boy, blue-eyed charmer, head hanging with horns from your father - oh, in a cold little mirror you were grown, by a black little wind you were blown, alone, alone, alone. Sad smile on your lips, you...

Wish I could remember why it mattered to me. It doesn't matter to me. It doesn't matter to me anymore. Now that you're feeling fine, I'll admit that - though I know it's coming down, and see it shattering me - it...

By the second verse, dear friends My head will burst, my life will end So I'd like to start this one off by saying Live and love I was young and at home in bed And I was hanging on the words some poem said And...

The river is deep and the river is wide, and the girl that I love is on the other side. She wants to move to Kansas City: 'Move, pretty baby, where the sky is so blue.a'a She's walking down Ellum, turning down Main,...

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 must rest, nothing lasts forever. Cynthia Anne, so give me chances,...

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 you inside some stranger's house, inside some stranger's bed - you're...

I thought I saw my god Through phrase and a ton of blood And somehow tipped each club And half completes the half The things I thought about The riches who die I've gone so far away now, kid From coast to coast to far...

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 cra?ache out and argue about who gets to set up the kings. And I know that it's home...

Packed and all eyes turned in No one to see on the quay, no one waving for me Just the shoreline receding Ticket in my hand and thinking wish I didn't hand it in 'Cause who said sailing is fine? Leaving behind all the...

To cheat on Maine islands - days of laughter, nights of sighing. To love without ceasing - flowering orchards, salty sea-things. To say without shyness 'unreal city, you have killed me.a'a When you walked out on her...

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 ourselves alone at the foot of a pair of foreign stairs. Dear Mother, you...

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 slipping, I reach for my feet. Precious, we are falling down, catch...

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. Down by Okkervil...

Oh, gather round people, I'll tell you no lies How John Lewis did murder poor little Omie Wise He told her to meet him at Adams' spring He would bring her money and other fine things So fool like, she met him at Adams'...

He gets close but I choke Take your shit, take your clothes And get out of my home I want you to love me Or I want you long gone You say your real name is John Hey, thanks John Go, sing songs, go, rock on Roll your...

It's just a bad movie where there's no crying Handing the keys to me in this Red Lion Where the lock that you locked in the suite Says there's no prying When the breath that you breathed in the street Screams there's...

No one wants to hear about your 97th tear So dry your eyes or let it go uncried, my dear I am all out of love to mouth and to your ear And not above letting a love song disappear Before it's written And no one wants a...