Okkervil River R.i.p. Lyrics - Okkervil River

Hey, my little baby 

Pointing at the sky's amazing 

In the lake now 

All of this sensation 

And no space on earth to place it 

Where it's safe now 

You've got a big day coming 

A big day coming now 

Gather, crowd, around me 

In the gutter where you found me 

Help me stand now 

My body, it is aching 

And my poor old heart is breaking 

And I'm so freaked out 

We've got a big chance coming 

A big chance coming now 

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All the little Sadies 

And the literary ladies 

Wish me well now 

A slab upon a plane that 

Through the air is silver swaying 

Into sun now 

I hightail my cool haircut 

Through the turnstiles of the airport 

On the run now 

Flip a couple hundred pages 

I was turning thirty-eight 

I was a horrible sight 

You've got a bad day coming 

A sad day coming 'round 

I'll wear a white suit and black sunglasses 

To the last mass now 

Okay 

Photos 

Then give me one last kiss 

In your pink silk dress, I guess 

Said, "I have lost all will to" 

With my face pressed against your breast 

And I have pilfered the king's pills 

From the palace medicine chest 

I cried a quart of crocodile tears 

Onto Allison Anne's pink champagne glass 

I was escorted from the premises 

For being a mess 

And it's just like when John Howe told me 

How the Force MDs died 

Lou Gehrig's disease laid T.C.D. low 

Mercury had a heart attack back in '95 

And where DJ Doctor Rock went 

Nobody knows 

I see my grandfather, T. Holmes 

"Bud" Moore laid up in his hospital clothes 

But I think about Judee Sill dying in some trailer park 

Out of cocaine and codeine all alone 

It was a big waste 

Brother, such a big waste 

Yeah, I know 

They had some great songs 

Must have been a great time 

So long ago 

But I didn't open up my mouth 

Just to piss and moan 

No way 

All the air is glitter 

And I went and hit the 

Skating rink alone now 

I'll watch the kids all skim across the ice 

They look so nice 

It was so cold out 

And then I coughed into my cupped hands 

Across the rink so I could hear the band 

Two guitars, a drummer 

A chick singer with a Kurzweil 

On a keyboard stand 

And I said, "Play that cover" 

I said, "Play that cover song again"