Okkervil River Song Lyrics - Okkervil River

Down by Okkervil River slow silent thick and black 

I stared into the water and the water it stared back 

The night it fell from tangles of the branches on the shore 

As it had on Okkervil River before 

Down by Okkervil River's cigarettes and rusty tires 

We made ourselves an altar, we lit our nightly fires 

And the smoke lay thick and smothered, all the skunk cabbage and vines 

Where Gods were born and Gods lay down to die 

With your hand inside my pocket, you whispered in my ear 

"We've come from ugliness to find some refuge here 

With this bracken for a blanket, where these limbs stick out like bones 

We have found a place where we can be alone." Oh 

And I tried to tell you as I kissed your hard dry lips 

All the things I dreamed about, I touched your bone white hips 

Far away our parents slept in as we watched our fire burn 

They dreamed of nothing and got nothing in return 

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And the water slipped on slowly past our bodies in the weeds 

Pulling plastic wrap and razors on its current through the reeds 

Then I woke up one cold morning, felt an absence at my back 

And I searched and stared but only the river stared back 

And I searched and stared but only the river stared back 

And I searched and stared but only the river stared back 

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