Song About a Star-Okkervil River

[ti:Song About A Star] [ar:Okkervil River] [al:Down The River Of Golden Dreams] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Song About a Star - Okkervil River [00:04.83]He cut your strings so that he could float [00:07.69]Lit by lights lifted by alcohol [00:10.21] [00:10.85]Over acres of loving coast [00:13.70]Far away from your lonely ghost [00:16.31] [00:17.26]Now he's cool and all [00:19.35]Floating anchorless ports of call [00:21.65] [00:22.25]Where it's fabulous after all [00:24.85]Of this watching himself just crawl [00:27.73] [00:29.13]Think you see him [00:31.88]He's not there [00:32.55]That's just light [00:33.97]That's not yet dead [00:35.30] [00:36.05]Wait two hours [00:38.85]And watch what'll be there instead [00:41.00] [00:42.96]Was he small and cold [00:45.08]Like a ring you call up from home [00:47.79]Held so tightly his limbs went numb [00:50.53]Worn away between your finger and thumb [00:54.06]Well now he's bought and sold [00:56.35]Cry his call number down the phone [00:59.00]He can't hear you he's on his float [01:01.99]Waving down to the folks at home [01:04.62] [01:06.08]Think you see him [01:08.83]He's not there [01:09.87]That's just light [01:10.70]That's not yet dead [01:12.41] [01:13.23]Wait two hours [01:15.91]And watch what'll be there instead [01:18.22] [01:20.57]As the cameras love all of his faces [01:23.02]They hide all the traces of you in his heart [01:25.70] [01:26.34]Stand in line to hold forth on his grace [01:28.41]But you won't even get a head start [01:31.29] [01:32.64]Get a head start [01:34.16] [01:46.86]As his close up comes [01:48.45]Cascading down from above [01:51.29]The eyes of a nation in love [01:54.15]Are looking on all of their hopes [01:56.37]Held up [01:57.98]And the words that some [01:59.91]Screenwriter counted and chose [02:02.65]And then set in their sequence and froze [02:05.45]Unfreeze on his tongue as he speaks [02:07.71]For all of us [02:09.07]But one [02:12.02]And honey he's gone [02:14.76]And baby he's everyone's [02:18.18]In the dark sky tonight [02:20.56]Cast your eyes [02:23.23]On the dim light [02:26.14]That he will become [02:28.94]You're just like everyone [02:32.72]Who thinks they see him [02:35.67]He's not there [02:36.72]That's just light [02:37.53]That's not yet dead [02:39.17] [02:40.01]Wait two hours [02:43.00]And watch what'll be there instead