Kansas City Lyrics

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, ...Read Full Lyrics

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 ...Read Full Lyrics

I'm surrounded, each doorway covered By at least twenty menAnd they're going to take me, throw me in prisonI ain't coming back againI ain't coming back againWhen I was younger, han...Read Full Lyrics

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 fiv...Read Full Lyrics

Sam, bless him, has died and left this homeThe woodchucks running wild, the bushes overgrownSlip unseen into the skein of treesSlide through dusky grasses and scatter his ashesOh, ...Read Full Lyrics

[Verse 1-Okkervil River]Home is where beds are made and butter is added to toastOn a cold afternoon you can float room to room like a ghostTake the creche out and argue about who g...Read Full Lyrics

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 ...Read Full Lyrics