Plus Ones-Okkervil River

[ti:Plus Ones] [ar:Okkervil River] [al:The Stage Names] [by:] [offset:0] [00:06.33]No one wants to hear about your 97th tear [00:10.64]So dry your eyes or let it go uncried my dear [00:15.38]I am all out of love to mouth into your ear [00:20.56]And not above letting a love song disappear before it's written [00:29.51] [00:31.45]And no one wants a tune about the 100th luftballoon [00:35.88]That was seen shooting from the window of your room [00:40.81]To be a spot against the sky's colossal gloom and land deflated [00:47.42]In some neighbor state that's strewn with 99 others [00:53.92]8 Chinese brothers [01:01.28]Well there's a reason why the last is smiling wide [01:05.27]And sitting higher than the others [01:08.58]Swinging his arms [01:13.07] [01:14.88]You would probably die before you shot up 9 miles high [01:19.00]Your eyes dilated as light plays upon the sight [01:23.68]Of TVC one-six as it sings you goodnight [01:27.42]Relaxed as hell and locked up in cell 45 [01:32.91]I hope you're feeling better [01:36.35]The 51st way to leave your lover [01:43.33]Admittedly doesn't seem to be as gentle [01:47.70]Or as clean as all the others [01:50.70]Leaving its scars [01:53.69]All in the after hours of some Greenpoint bar [02:00.31] [02:01.06]I told you I can't listen baby [02:03.62]About the 4th time you were a lady [02:06.24]And how your forthrightness betrayed a secret shyness [02:08.61]Stripped away by days of being hailed as Your Highness [02:16.16]And what's new pussycat is that you were once a lioness [02:21.15]They cut your claws out [02:25.02]Kitten not everyone's keen on lighting candle 17 [02:30.20]The party's done The cake's all gone The plates are clean [02:35.75]The chauffeur's leering from the cheerless mezzanine [02:40.37]And in just 1 year the straight world can pay to see [02:44.93]What they have been missing [02:47.68] [02:50.42]You were caught kissing 8 Chinese brothers [02:55.35]But there's a reason why the last is smiling wide [02:59.47]And sitting higher than the others stinking with charm [03:06.02] [03:08.52]And he says Let's get lost Let them send out alarms [03:15.01]He says Let's get crossed out and come to harm [03:20.00]Let's make the world's stupidest stand and truly mean it [03:26.18]Let's hit the limit of laws over lovers' arms - no let's exceed it