Call Yourself Renee Lyrics - Okkervil River

Don't look back until you realise you're pointedly not trying to look back 

Then reconsider trying for a clearer mind, try for a grace of some kind 

Leave your house and walk in the autumn light 

Imagine a river, massive and galloping beneath your feet 

Or you can call yourself Renee again and you can move back to Rapid City 

You live in a hotel, you wait for a phone call, you wait for an email 

You look out the window at a tree, weighted down with snow 

You worry about your mother, you watch a couple movies, you take an Ativan 

You walk down a Rapid City street alone 

And at night there's a pink cast underneath the blank grey cloud head 

Well it's something pretty to look at in the sky 

And I don't know why so-and-so's taking much time to breathe something new into my life 

And there's a tip-tap on the window that could be Fate's pale face looking in 

Energy could be in the trembling hands of a tree, or it could be lighter 

Could be nothing at all 

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Out in the night 

The world was right against our skin 

And it was right again 

Out in the night 

The world was right against our skin 

And it was right, baby 

Mysteriously absent for the afternoon and suddenly missing for a full month 

His mother called up, called around the corner, called out shivering from a dream 

Called his father five states to the south, said he was gone 

When he could have easily been seen in a Vero Beach Dillard's 

Weaving in and out of the racks of beautiful blue men's shirts 

Or in South Florida, breezing through the drive-through, easy like a song on the stereo 

Letting it all slide like an easy-going god 

Or he could have not existed, just a vision of his mother 

When she wished it so hard into something she could almost see 

Or he could have been a feeling in the air, or the guy who cuts your hair 

He could have been anyone, he could even have been me 

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And me, I don't care if I come back as a single wave 

Or an oriole on a spell branch on a tree 

Cause I'm not scared to die as long as I know 

that the universe has something really to do with me 

Out in the night 

The air was right against our skin 

And it was right 

Out in the night 

The air was right against our skin 

And it was right, baby 

I wanna make it nice again 

I wanna make it alright 

I wanna make it nice again 

I wanna make it alright 

Out in the night 

The world was right against our skin 

And it was alright, child 

Out in the night 

The world was right against our skin 

And it was alright, baby 

I wanna make it nice again 

I wanna make it alright