Тексты песен «Okkervil River»

All sweetly sung and succinctly stated Words and music you calculated To make you sing along with your stereo on As you stand in your shorts on your lawn Get completely incorporated By some couple who consummated Their...

Red is my favorite color, red like your mother's eyes after awhile of crying about how you don't love her. She says 'I know I don't deserve supervised sight of her, but each day becomes a blur without my daughter.a'a...

Midnight late last week, my daughter's diary Didn't know what it might be 'til it was open I only read one page and then put it away Talk about your big mistakes, hey, Shan, nice going Photos show no tears, in her eyes...

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 there to minister to me. And at break of dawn they're sweetly shining,...

See, see rider, see what you have done Oh, see, see rider, see what you have done See, see rider, see what you have done Hay, hay, hay, hay You made me love you now your man done come Oh, made me love you now your man...

Your great-grandfather was a great lawyer And his kid made a mint off the war Your father shot stills and then directed films That your mom did publicity for I saw your older sis on the year's best book list And your...

A black sheep boy revolves over canyons and waterfalls. A black sheep boy dissolves in syringe or in shower stall. He says 'There's plenty of time to make you mine tonight, there's plenty of time to make you mine.a'a...

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 he's cool and all, floating anchorless. Ports of call: where it's...

Remember when our so-called friend would not call out to you while tumbling loosely out a hole punched through your home? It's pretty clear, though you could hear, you truly finally knew, in time, he'd tell his tale the...

They ask for more What do you think this fan club is for? I slithered up each rose corridor I kept a warm, safe place at my core Before I lost it They ask for blood What do you think this woman's made of? I stuck a...

Ll the latest toughs, you've got to shrug them off or shut them off. With ten-thousand-time-told truths, you've still got to ask for proof. Ask for proof, because if you're dying to be led they'll lead you up the hill...

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 good, though, when we're lying, side by side, can't move and i'm not...

Loosen the wire, your time has expired, the only word left is 'goodbye.a'a In my new dream the light's shining on me, little needles of sodium unstitch the seams of the sky. Hold your head higher, the heavenly choir is...

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.a'a The heart wants a trail away from 'alone,a'a so the heart turns a sale into a...

All of the stage names evaporate And it's just a blood flushed and heart rushing rates Either to kick off too soon or stick around too late To be far too dear or too cut rate Hold my hand again like at the lake Hold...

What gives this mess some grace Unless it's kicks, man Unless it's fiction Unless it's sweat or it's songs What hits against this chest Unless it's a sick man's hand From some mid-level band He's been driving too long...

I'm surrounded, each doorway covered by at least twenty men. And they're going to take me and throw me in prison. I ain't coming back again. When I was younger, handsomer and stronger, I felt like I could do anything...

Through the war and the soft spring rustle Streets are selling some summer hustle Across the Maple Street Bridge, in a bristling fog Just whistling on is a bowl of prattle Just a high snowball on a curb in the fall...

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 cloud I see, how could I have known you'd be so deep inside of me? And...

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 friend's. You can only go on so long about feelings that never, ever...