Okkervil River R.I.P. Lyrics

He cut your strings so that he could floatlit by lights, lifted by alcoholover acres of loving coast,Far away from your lonely ghost.Now he's cool and all,Floating anchorless. Port...Read Full Lyrics

Pull down the shades, lets kill the morningLets kill the morning, let it dieWill your eyes flash out a warningBut they'll be another morning after afternoon and tonightF*ck long ho...Read Full Lyrics

Spit into the center of your hometown, there are leaves in the street, and there are friends around you now. All the days of your life in a line. All the way it seemed by 89But it'...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 pair...Read Full Lyrics

You can't let yourself be selfishYou can't let yourself be soldYou gotta let your brother in from out the coldOh oh ohOh oh ohYou can't let your heart get tiredYou can't let your h...Read Full Lyrics

Young, stay youngStay strong, don't get on with itGone, way gone with itIt's all done with itYou're all doneAll my friends are running to liveOn cornersHurters and the haters and t...Read Full Lyrics

Young, stay youngStay strong, don't get on with itGone, way gone with itIt's all done with itYou're all doneAll my friends are running to liveOn cornersHurters and the haters and t...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

It's just a bad movie where there's no cryingHanding the keys to me in this Red LionWhere the lock that you locked in the suiteSays there's no pryingWhen the breath that you breath...Read Full Lyrics

Some nights I thirst for real bloodFor real knivesFor real criesAnd then the flash of steel from real gunsIn real lifeReally fills my mindAnd I really miss what really did existWhe...Read Full Lyrics