The Valley-Okkervil River

[ti:The Valley] [ar:Okkervil River] [al:I Am Very Far] [by:] [offset:0] [00:19.12]Watch the sun switching in the sky off and on [00:22.49]Where our friend stands bleeding on the late summer lawn [00:26.66]A slicked back bloody black gunshot to the head [00:30.99]He has fallen in the valley of the rock and roll dead [00:34.00] [00:44.41]I hear a breeze it wheezes through the tips of the pines [00:48.53]Where there's laughter and there's screaming to the rafters in the night [00:52.90]The moon rolls dreaming through the late spring sky [00:57.85]Where our friend lies bleeding through his jacket and his tie [01:02.06]A slit throat makes a note like a raw winter wind [01:05.95]We were piled at the river with the rock and roll skinned [01:10.32]Times ten [01:12.39] [01:30.07]Like the water loves lapping at the skin of the shore [01:32.34]Hear our friend come tapping at the latches on the door [01:36.53]Like a foot slips slapping on the ladder's last rung [01:40.74]We were thrashing in the clatter of the rock and roll hung [01:45.26]Minus one [01:48.50] [02:12.01]It's just a loud crowd crush [02:13.57]It's just a thrush seen flying through the late autumn dusk [02:18.54]Just for the very last time [02:20.31]It's just a busted-up body in the dust of the last road [02:25.13]Out of the city when the city explodes [02:28.82]Light grows and the light grows bright and red-tinged [02:33.26]We were fallen on the border with the rock and roll singed [02:37.69]Times ten [02:42.13]Times ten [02:54.82]Times ten [02:55.82] [02:56.64]Ten again then another ten million [02:59.89]Fallen in the valley of the rock and roll dead [03:03.70]Times ten [03:05.07]Ten again then another ten million [03:08.51]Fallen in the valley of the rock and roll dead [03:12.76]Times ten [03:13.64]Ten again then another ten million [03:16.95]Fallen in the valley of the rock and roll dead [03:21.01]Times ten [03:22.07]Ten again then another ten million [03:25.83]Fallen in the valley of the rock and roll dead [03:30.34]Times ten [03:30.96]Ten again then another ten million [03:34.42]Fallen in the valley of the rock and roll dead