Okkervil River Song-Okkervil River

[ti:Okkervil River Song] [ar:Okkervil River] [al:Okkervil River Live At Schubas 05/13/2005] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Okkervil River Song - Okkervil River [00:42.79]Down by Okkervil River slow silent thick and black [00:50.07] [00:50.99]I stared into the water and the water it stared back [00:59.27]The night it fell from tangles of the branches on the shore [01:05.76] [01:07.41]As it had on Okkervil River before [01:11.88] [01:15.56]Down by Okkervil River cigarettes and rusty tires [01:23.13] [01:23.77]We made ourselves an altar [01:27.38] [01:27.89]We lit our nightly fires [01:30.86] [01:32.19]And the smoke lay thick and smothered [01:35.49] [01:36.22]All the skunk cabbage and vines [01:39.56] [01:40.38]Where Gods were born and Gods lay down to die [01:45.03] [01:49.80]With your hand inside my pocket [01:52.21] [01:53.27]You whispered in my ear [01:55.44] [01:58.73]Have come from ugliness to find some refuge here [02:02.88] [02:04.67]With this bracken for a blanket [02:07.55] [02:09.19]Where these limbs stick out like bones [02:13.04]We have found a place where we can be alone [02:23.38] [02:54.45]And I tried to tell you [02:56.42]As I kissed your hard dry lips [03:01.34] [03:02.13]All the things I dreamed about [03:04.37] [03:05.26]I touched your bone white hips [03:07.97] [03:08.69]Far away our parents slept in as we watched our fire burn [03:16.58] [03:17.13]They dreamed of nothing and got nothing in return [03:21.70] [03:25.54]And the water slipped on slowly past our bodies in the weeds [03:32.31] [03:33.78]Pulling plastic wrap and razors on its current through the reeds [03:41.34] [03:42.25]Then I woke up one cold morning felt an absence at my back [03:51.03] [03:51.56]And I searched and stared but only the river stared back [03:56.00] [03:58.61]And I searched and stared but only the river stared back [04:04.45] [04:09.49]And I searched and stared but only the river stared back