Frontman In Heaven Lyrics - Okkervil River

I'm trying to transmute tap water into wine 

Out here, somewhere in this Las Cruces motel room 

The floor and ceiling vibrate so I can barely stand 

"Calm down", says the Sky Man, "you're injured" 

I dreamt last night I was halfway up the ladder to heaven 

And I shot up this morning with an attitude 

I charged through the city and I wandered the streets 

Trying to get answers with just my irresistible smile 

Shouting "who will provide the celestial blueprint we need?" 

Echoing voices zigzag in the night 

In and around forest-view apartments 

To crack a bay window and feel the fair winds 

She throws back her head and she lifts up her hands 

She drives herself into an amphetamine madness 

She says "Tell me, just tell me I was right" 

And she's taken all the wrong pills 

Her voice begins cracking 

Her eyes open, staring at nothing 

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Do you get what I'm saying? 

I feel my heart beating 

I wonder how I couldn't keep it from coming on 

I want you so much in this wild desert heat that it's scary 

But I know I have done so much that could be construed as damage 

And there's something bad within me that makes me want to take advantage 

When you're tripped up, slipped up 

Blonde hair and black-lipped up 

With all those silk straps round your ankles 

I feel myself convinced we could do whatever all night 

It's high time we broke completely free of all control 

Hi there! How are you? 

Well I feel like my brain just exploded 

Tell all your girlfriends 

I'm beautiful, I'm beautiful, I'm someone 

Tell them it's breezy and warm down here in this strange place 

I will wake in the morning displaying the mark of a new man 

Whose whole world has altered in front of his stupefied face 

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I recall when things were way more fun around here 

But the Sky Man reminds me I'm almost a ghost of myself 

It seems to me everything fine fell away 

I've seen the forests burn and learned you have to arm yourself 

It's gonna be a funky fresh Christmas and I dont think I can handle it 

When there's so little dignity in anything 

Do you feel what I feel? 

And Christ, will you watch my back where I do roam? 

To a room full of murderous boys with no songs of their own 

I feel sick, I feel compromised all the way down 

Like an eagle with all of its feathers plucked out 

Can you see it in your mind? 

I was inconsiderate and cold 

But I can change if it's such a big deal to you 

I watch the dying sun sink on those jerk-offs in their convertibles 

I went a little out of control, oh, with the boys out in the parking lot 

Loneliness blinded me, down in the peanut-shell bars 

Wild wild nights, heavy romance 

There was Percodan spilled on the dancefloor 

There were corpses in plain sight and they were just walking around 

And the good old boys on their leatherette 

Want a woman who was down for whatever 

I learned to be compassionate by watching those working girls smile 

Heaven was lying 'neath my feet like some wall-to-wall carpeting 

And sometimes I believe that there's actually no such thing as love 

And one of these days I might not be so good to you 

Can you see what I'm saying? 

Come and sit where I'm sitting, oh darling 

Because now I understand that it wasn't you who held me back 

There were forces beyond my control and maybe I held myself down 

All of that money it gets so hard to stay yourself around 

But girl, give me just one little chance 

Well, show me some trust again 

I will sing your soul far away, up to a sparkling star 

Where all our old frends will be waiting 

Hold my hand and sigh in a soft whisper 

That you don't just care about getting what you paid for 

And on the day that I finally die 

Well I just might start screaming 

In the one private instant I cross over that unseen line 

The last remaining species of birds will be singing away 

Singing goodbye to my tastes, and my face, and LA 

Goodbye to New Mexico and Texas 

When I'm gone, I know there will be some things I miss 

Hold me and help me remember 

Cause it's almost time 

We are born wired-up and our heads are all flooded with messages 

That get harder to pick out, except at the start and the end 

And you, my weeping friend 

I can't wait to describe to you what I'll see up there 

Though I'm sure it will be an adjustment 

There are voices calling me from down the hallway 

There are voices that filter up through the silence 

And "Calm down, " says the Sky Man, "you're raving" 

So alright 

Nighty-night 

Nighty-night