We Need a Myth-Okkervil River

[ti:We Need a Myth] [ar:Okkervil River] [al:I Am Very Far] [00:-4.00]Okkervil River - We Need a Myth [04:33.01][04:13.71][03:53.03][03:33.70][03:16.17][02:43.37][02:06.77][01:53.27][01:34.28][01:12.17][00:54.68][00:36.20][00:17.76][00:-1.00] [03:53.78][02:39.90][00:55.63][00:18.71][00:00.17]We need a myth [00:03.86]We need an amethyst bridge [00:08.91]We need a high hanging cliff [00:13.47]Jump, fall and lift [00:15.10]We can make it [00:21.97]We need a path [00:23.78]Through the mist [00:26.68]Like in our beds [00:27.99]We were just kids [00:31.43]Like what was said by our parents [01:59.23][00:46.21][00:37.53]A myth [02:02.85][01:54.06][00:50.05][00:40.64]I guess What we're after is just this [00:58.79]I feel my heart's like a fist [01:03.21]Words spilling out [01:04.62]From the blessed lips [01:08.08]Of any prophet or goddess [01:13.34]I need a myth [01:17.22]Brought back to life by a kiss [01:21.54]Scrape away grey cement [01:26.16]Show me the world as it was again [01:30.88]As it was in a myth [01:35.84]A red ribbon to reconnect [01:39.88]The lady's head to her neck [01:43.98]And to forget that her throat [01:47.69]Was ever slit [02:07.45]Oh and I'm sick [02:10.32]Of all these picture books that try [02:18.29]To steal some old reflections for their light [02:26.93]But desperate measures point to desperate times [02:35.76]And that's why [02:58.46]We're cut adrift [03:02.23]And we need a mass uplift [03:06.66]The world is trembling and weeping [03:11.20]Just at the point of believing [03:17.04]In a myth [03:20.61]The sun that shines on my head [03:25.05]The moon that lights me to bed [03:29.52]Were two identical twins [03:34.55]Inside of a myth [03:38.66]I heard the voice of a friend [03:43.18]On Lethe's banks [03:44.77]Wading in [03:46.76]And he said [03:48.12]Before I forget [03:56.92]As we lean in to kiss [04:01.29]To get two nails [04:03.28]Through the wrist [04:06.11]To get covered in blood [04:09.00]And to get covered in spit [04:11.35]And to forgive. [04:15.44]And if all we're taught is a trick [04:19.72]Why would this feeling persist? [04:24.27]And with the truth closing in [04:27.39]I must insist [04:30.09]We need a myth.