Okkervil River Song

[Verse 1]

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

[Verse 2]

Down by Okkervil River, 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

[Verse 3]

With your hand inside my pocket, you whispered in my ear

"We've 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." Oh

[Verse 4]

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 as we watched our fire burn

They dreamed of nothing and got nothing in return

[Outro]

And the water slipped on slowly past our bodies in the weeds

Pulling plastic wrap and razors on its current through the reeds

And I woke up one cold morning, felt an absence at my back

And I searched and stared but only the river stared back

And I searched and stared but only the river stared back

And I searched and stared but only the river stared back