Okkervil River Song (Cover)

by Moodswift

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cover of Okkervil River's "Okkervil River Song"
was going to clean this cover up, but i'm moving on to bigger stuff!
this is the first full cover I've ever done.

lyrics

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 from the branches on the shore
As it had on Okkervil River before

Down by Okkervil River cigarettes and rusty tires
We made ourselves an altar we lit our nightly fires
Through the smoke lay thick and smothered all the skunk cabbage and vine
Where Gods were born and Gods lay down to die

With your hand inside my pocket you whisper in my ear
We have come from ugliness to find some refuge here
With this bracken for a blanket where these limbs stick out like bone
We have found a place where we can be alone

And I try to tell you as I kiss your hard dry lips
All the things I dream about I touch 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

And the water slipped on slowly past our bodies in the weeds
Pulling plastic wrap and razors on its current through the reeds
And I woke up one cold morning felt an absence at my back
Then I searched and stared but only the river stared back

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released November 16, 2014
guitar, keyboard, vocals, post: me

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