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"External Actor" is a track by Okkervil River, from the album In the Rainbow Rain, released 27th April 2018. Full lyrics are available below.
Lyrics
[Verse 1] It's all I'm looking for These moments of opaque-eyed knocked-out rapture Helpless as a calf at the capture Chosen in a frozen instant [Verse 2] Far away from the scabbed-out moment Far from the flick-flick-flick of the flatscreen Far from the poison power of cash Green cash reeking and heating the jetstream [Verse 3] Oh, the sharp sweet breath, she is my daughter Daughter of the flashing instant Daughter of watching "Daughters of Darkness" On your parents' couch with your high-school boyfriend [Verse 4] Spinning fevered in a haze of ditchweed Daughters of long hard skids on the 10-speed Daughters of July rips at the land speed Semi-freckled eternal thrasher [Verse 5] Feather-haloed floating hair eye-flasher Floating like a fire in the distance Flashing like a flush to the skin And whispering like the wind through the rushes [Chorus] Oh no, external actor External actor [Verse 6] You gotta hoist a high flag You gotta learn how to hang with the freaks and the hicks In the heat of the lot You gotta learn what is and what is not And you learn what isn't is not a lot [Verse 7] To drain a tin beer Streaming cold in the fields Summer's up and the heat is relentless A drop in the rainbow rain on the canvas Calls of friends in the capital of cannabis [Verse 8] Where the cops down the block And they circle and they stop And they circle and they stop And they stop and they circle And they stop, God help cause it's a lot And may God have mercy on the polyglot [Chorus] Oh no, external actor External actor [Verse 9] A million miles across the starlight A skip skip skip A wide long curve A space dust melt around a star Keep shining in the cold Keep shining in the dark [Chorus] External actor [Outro] Neighbor-love and brother-love And blanketing love of God above Sigh of the river far from shore Silence and the voice don't speak any more Neighbor-love and brother-love And blanketing love of God above Sigh of the river far from shore Silence and the voice don't speak any more Neighbor-love and brother-love And blanketing love of God above Sigh of the river far from shore Silence and the voice don't speak any more Neighbor-love and brother-love And blanketing love of God above Sigh of the river far from shore Silence and the voice don't speak any more Neighbor-love and brother-love And blanketing love of God above Sigh of the river far from shore Silence and the voice don't speak any more Neighbor-love and brother-love And blanketing love of God above Sigh of the river far from shore Silence and the voice don't speak any more Neighbor-love and brother-love And blanketing love of God above Sigh of the river far from shore Silence and the voice don't speak any more
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