Mermaid-Okkervil River

[ti:Mermaid] [ar:Okkervil River] [al:Mermaid] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.33]Mermaid - Okkervil River [00:00.52]So I said Men pull her out of the water [00:08.54]And then lay on hands [00:12.05] [00:12.56]And bind back her flippers and tail [00:17.65]Until international waters And there we'll feel [00:26.75] [00:28.85]What's human inside of her [00:34.22] [00:40.45]So she's chilly and slick [00:43.87] [00:44.56]On her hips where the scales [00:47.49]Meet with skin With a sickening [00:51.80]Flick of her tail circling [00:56.96]Her gills fill with cold salty water She thrashes [01:03.85]And twirls her freezing fins fluttering [01:14.21] [01:19.93]But she's pretty I think [01:24.13]With her hair dark as ink and her belly bone-white [01:31.33]And her lips of a slight sea-shell pink slightly part [01:37.78] [01:38.47]As she's tonguing the tub's rusty rim [01:43.33]As the saltwater flows out and in [01:54.05] [02:02.12]All farewells to the land we knew well [02:08.68] [02:10.73]We'd never be touching again [02:16.03] [02:17.65]To the fields where we rambled and ran [02:23.38] [02:24.51]Farewell to our wives and children [02:30.47] [02:31.84]Let's stand on the deck and let's watch [02:38.06] [02:38.80]Them all disappearing [02:47.29] [02:57.46]And the days all float by [03:00.95]In a daze over waves under sky [03:06.69]And the weeks slowly leak into years [03:11.50]The last islands are all left behind as we silently sail [03:20.96]Until late some dark night a wild wind starts to wail [03:27.80]And our map blows away [03:31.35]And our compasses fail [03:35.12]And it's out on the lost boiling black water [03:41.05]Where I see her float out [03:45.95]And she's so thin and so pale I see her rise up [03:52.79]And she's so fast and so fair My hands meet [03:57.19]And they press to a point in the air [04:03.15]But my mouth fills with more panic than prayer [04:09.99]And my skull fills with more color than care [04:17.10]And my heart fills with love with too much love to bear [04:23.15]And I know that I'll stay and that she'll always be there [04:30.58]My hands sunk in cold sand [04:33.71]Sea-w**d strung through her hair