Okkervil River Song Lyrics

Song	Okkervil River Song
Artist	Okkervil River
Album	Don't Fall In Love With Everyone You See
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	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
	River’s 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.
	With your hand inside my pocket, you whispered in my ear “
	We have 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.”
	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 while we watched our fire burn.
	They dreamed of nothing and got nothing in return.
	And the water slipped on slowly past our bodies in the weeds, pulling plastic wrap and razors on its current through the reeds.
	Then I woke up one cold morning, felt an absence at my back, and
	I searched and stared but only the river stared

	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
	River' s 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.
	With your hand inside my pocket, you whispered in my ear "
	We have 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."
	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 while we watched our fire burn.
	They dreamed of nothing and got nothing in return.
	And the water slipped on slowly past our bodies in the weeds, pulling plastic wrap and razors on its current through the reeds.
	Then I woke up one cold morning, felt an absence at my back, and
	I searched and stared but only the river stared

	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
	River' s 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.
	With your hand inside my pocket, you whispered in my ear "
	We have 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."
	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 while we watched our fire burn.
	They dreamed of nothing and got nothing in return.
	And the water slipped on slowly past our bodies in the weeds, pulling plastic wrap and razors on its current through the reeds.
	Then I woke up one cold morning, felt an absence at my back, and
	I searched and stared but only the river stared

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