Walked Out on a Line-Okkervil River

[ti:Walked Out on a Line] [ar:Okkervil River] [al:Mermaid] [offset:0] [00:00.25]Walked Out on a Line - Okkervil River [00:00.80]From the back of my brain [00:02.95]The confetti burst came [00:05.45]And it blew through the balls of my eyes [00:10.56] [00:12.43]In midnight as loud [00:15.03]As a cloud of cocaine [00:17.38]And horrendously swollen in size [00:23.59] [00:24.62]Saw the pen press the text [00:26.93]Through the flesh of your neck [00:29.21]And the first line twas writ there was Christ's [00:35.08] [00:36.28]I spun silver machine on a high wall of white [00:41.34]Waving cream that sends streams from his side [00:46.92] [00:48.04]Cause he's out on the razor line [01:03.89] [01:07.43]And dark dirty streams [01:09.59]The decay from our dreams [01:11.90]Leaves a black trail of grease through the snow [01:17.51] [01:19.26]And is there a hotel there or is there a hole [01:23.86]Where our bodies all aching and aging can go [01:29.61] [01:31.26]Oh I lept from the mountain and mid-falling down [01:35.73]Ran my trembling hands down your spine [01:40.60] [01:42.87]Cause you have been curtly holding a mean [01:47.53]Will hopefully always be mine [01:52.56] [01:53.64]And cause you're out on the razor line [02:11.83] [02:13.66]In the storm's scream and swirl's [02:16.30]Where I spotted my girl [02:18.53]I was pinning her straight to my side [02:23.49] [02:25.61]When the devil all dinged up and dragonfly wing [02:30.23]Dropped his head in my lap and he cried [02:35.74] [02:37.43]Now we're right out on that line [02:47.83] [02:56.59]Once I spotted my man [02:59.08]Sweeping over the sand [03:01.28]And the ambulance lamps in his eyes [03:07.01] [03:08.52]And the smell of black blood on the backs of his hands [03:13.10]I could tell that his world can't be mine [03:18.96]When he says [03:20.27]The eye seems to spin just fine [03:37.02] [03:38.83]All through space [03:43.51]All through bladeless night [03:52.12] [03:57.35]All on the plain over razor line [04:16.72]