Pop Lie-Okkervil River

[ti:Pop Lie] [ar:Okkervil River] [al:Pop Lie EP] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Pop Lie - Okkervil River [00:11.79]All sweetly sung and succinctly stated [00:14.42] [00:15.10]Words and music you calculated [00:17.67] [00:18.29]To make you sing along [00:20.29] [00:21.36]With your stereo on [00:23.66] [00:24.28]As you stand in your shorts on your lawn [00:26.66] [00:27.59]Get completely incorporated [00:30.15] [00:30.72]By some couple who consummated [00:33.22] [00:33.91]Their first love by the dawn [00:35.97] [00:37.09]A falling star wished upon [00:40.03]And flashed in the sky and was gone [00:42.60] [00:43.97]And that's when the blood rained in [00:48.47] [00:49.79]By the back room the kids all waited [00:51.97] [00:52.54]To meet the man in bright green [00:54.98] [00:55.72]Who had dreamed up the dream that [00:58.54]They rest their hearts upon [01:00.66] [01:01.42]He's the liar who lied in his pop song [01:04.48]And you're lying when you sing along [01:06.85] [01:07.60]And you're lying when you sing along [01:12.17] [01:23.92]So here's the car seat so cruelly weighted [01:26.86]And here's the faces already faded [01:29.48] [01:30.04]At the end of the day [01:32.23] [01:32.98]When they just threw away [01:36.11]The only good thing that they owned [01:38.61]And now they're [01:40.10] [01:45.73]But at the food court the float's inflated [01:48.48]People line up to see the man [01:52.05]Who dreamed up the dream that [01:54.30]They rest their hearts upon [01:56.55] [01:57.11]He's the liar who lied in his pop song [02:00.30]The liar who lied in his pop song [02:03.42]And you're lying when you sing along [02:06.30]Oh yeah you're lying when you sing along [02:10.11] [02:11.86]Week by week it climbs up and comes on [02:14.49]And we're feeling alright though we know it's all wrong [02:17.27] [02:18.02]I'm ashamed to admit that [02:20.02]I can't help resist what I wished was the truth [02:23.15]But it's not [02:23.96]And I truly believe we're not strong [02:26.18] [02:26.74]And we'll sing til our voices are gone [02:29.30] [02:29.93]And then sing even though the manicures gone [02:32.49] [02:46.37]This is respectfully dedicated [02:48.62] [02:49.25]To the woman who concentrated [02:52.50] [02:53.25]All of her love to find [02:55.50] [02:56.50]That she'd wasted it on [02:59.06] [03:00.12]The liar who lied in this song