Girl In Port, A
Okkervil River

Let fall your soft and swaying skirt

Let fall your shoes, let fall your shirt

I'm not the lady-killing sort

Enough to hurt a girl in port

Marie's gone blonde and lost a stone

She lay on her lawn, spun and alone

And when the morning sun it rose

Upon Marie and her lacy clothes

Well, it lit her up, and she walked around

The winding streets of Camden Town

Well, she don't know who she wants to be

And if I knew I'd tell Marie

Let fall your soft and swaying skirt

Let fall your shoes, let fall your shirt

I'm not the lady-killing sort

Enough to hurt a girl in port

And Cindy tells me she's had fun

Sitting backstage, someone's plus one

Up in her room the records spin

Needle in the grooves that she's worn thin

Well, she lifts her sleeve and she sees a name

And she's got a smile on her face

And she's got a story you can't see

Well, that's just between that name and Cindy

And before Holly made her way

Over the sea and far away

She's telling me inside her car

Driving us back from the Crystal Corner bar

I lost her there, I fell from hell

Cut some fresh pieces from myself

And then for a second something in me

Said leave today, it's time, Holly, it's time

Oh, I'm a weak and lonely sort

Though I'm not sailing just for sport

I've come to feel out on the sea

These urgent lives press against me

I'm just aghast, I'm not apart

My tender head with my easy heart

These several years out on the sea

Made me empty, cold and clear

Pour yourself into me

Let fall your soft and swaying skirt

Let fall your shoes, let fall your shirt

I'm not the lady-killing sort

Enough to hurt the girl in port


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