Singer Songwriter Lyrics - The Stand Ins - Okkervil River

Your great-grandfather was a great lawyer 

And his kid made a mint off the war 

Your father shot stills and then directed films 

That your mom did publicity for 

I saw your older sis on the year's best book list 

And your brother, he manages bands 

And you're keen to downplay, but you're quick to betray 

With one well turned out wave of your hand 

You come from wealth 

Yeah, you've got wealth 

What a bitch they didn't give you much else 

I heard cuts by The Kinks on your speakers 

I saw Poe and Artau on your shelves 

While The Last Laugh's first scene on your flat panel screen 

Lit Chanel that you've wrapped around yourself 

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You've got outsider art by an artist 

Who arguably kidnapped a kid on the wall 

While your designers have slyly directed the eye 

Down clean lines in your well-lit hall 

You've got taste 

You've got taste 

What a waste that that's all that you have 

Oh, you wrote your thesis on the Gospel of Thomas 

You shot some reversal film in Angkor Wat 

And this book you once read say there's less people dead 

At this point now than those who are not 

And this film we once saw was reviled for its flaws 

But its flaws were what made us have fun 

And the life some folks had might have made us feel bad 

Why feel bad man, it's nothing that you've done 

It's all in your hand 

It's all in your hand 

Like a gun, like a globe, like a grand 

Photos 

And this thing you once said disappeared from my head 

In the time that it took to be amazed 

And this thing you once did might have dazzled the kids 

But the kids once grown up are gonna walk away 

And your world is gonna change nothing 

And your world is gonna change nothing 

And our world is gonna change nothing 

And our world is gonna change nothing 

And our world is gonna change nothing