Hey my little babyPointing at the sky’s amazing in the lake nowAll of this sensation in the space on earth to place it where it’s safe nowYou’ve got a big day coming, a big day coming nowGather crowd around meIn the gutter where you found meIt will stand nowMy body it is achingAnd my poor old heart is breaking and I’m so freaked outWe’ve got a big chance coming, a big chance coming nowAll the little Sadie’s and the literary ladies wish me well nowA slob upon a plane that through the air is silver swaying into sun nowI hightail my cool hair cut through the turnstiles of the airports on the run nowFlip a couple hundred pages, I was turning 38, I was a horrible sightYou’ve got a bad day comingA sad day coming nowI’ll wear a white suit and black sunglasses to the last match nowOkay.Then give me one last kiss in your pink silk dress, I guessSaid I have lost all will, oh with my face pressed against your breastAnd I had pill for the kings, pills from palace medicine chestI cried a quarter crocodile tears onto Allison Anne’s pink champagne glassI was escorted from the premises for being a messAnd it’s just like when Shawn had told me how to force seventy’s timesLou Gehrig’s disease, laid TCD, low mercury had a heart attack back in ‘95And when DJ Doctor Rock when nobody knowsI’ll see my grandfather, T Holmes, but more laid up in his hospital clothesBut I think about Judey still dying in some trailer park out cocaine and codeine unknownIt was a big waste brother, such a big waste, yeah, I knowThey had some great songs, must have been a great time, so long agoOh but I didn’t open up my mouth just to piss and moanNo wayAll the air is glittering I went and hit the skating rink alone, nowI watched the kids all skim across the ice, they look so nice, it was so cold outAnd then I coughed into my cupped hands and crossed the rink so I could hear the bandTwo guitars, a drummer, a chick singer with a curtsy, while on a keyboard standAnd I said play that cover, I said, play that cover song again
Lyrics by Okkervil River
A Favor A Girl In Port A Glow A Hand To Take Hold Of The Scene A King And A Queen A Leaf A Stone All the Time Every Day And I Have Seen the World of Dreams Another Radio Song Antarctica Starts Here (John Cale) April Anne (John Phillips) Auntie Alice Black Black Nemo Black Sheep Boy Black Sheep Boy (Black Sheep Boy Appendix) Black Sheep Boy #4 Black Sheep Boy 4 Blanket And Crib Blood Gatherer Blue Tulip Bruce Wayne Campbell Interviewed On The Roof Of Th... Bruce Wayne Campbell Interviewed On The Roof Of Th... Bruce Wayne Campbell Interviewed on the Roof of th... Call Yourself Renee Calling and Not Calling My Ex Comes Indiana Through the Smoke Constance Days Spent Floating Dead Dog Song Dead Faces Do the Crawl (CBS October 22, 1988) Do What You Gotta Do Down Down The Deep River Down the river of golden dreams Dreadful Wind and Rain Dry Bones For Real For Real [Multimedia Track] For The Captain For The Enemy From a Cutlass Cruiser Frontman in Heaven Get Big Girl In Port, A Give Me the Night Gold Faces Good Liquor Gonna Carry Me Down Goodnight, Irene Hand To Take Hold Of The Scene, A Hanging From a Hit Happy Hearts He Passes Number Thirty-Three I Came Here To Say I'm Going Away (Serge Gainsbour... I Guess We Lost I Want To Know (Charles F. Olsen/Ed Sanders) I'm in Love with Susan Smith In A Radio Song In Someone’s Backyard It Ends With A Fall It Was My Season It's So Nice To Get Stoned John Allyn Smith Sails John Allyn Smith Sails (Demo) Judey on a Street Just Give Me Time Kansas City Kathy Keller Lady Liberty Last Love Song For Now Lay of the Last Survivor Lido Pier Suicide Car Life Like Like Life Lines Listening To Otis Redding At Home During Christmas Lost Coastlines Love to a Monster Maine Island Lovers Mary on a Wave Mermaid Millionaire Missing Children Money Changes Everything Moonshiner Murderess My Bad Days Nancy (Orange Mothers) No Easy Way Down No Hidden Track No Key, No Plan O, Dana Oh, Precious Oh, the Wind and Rain Okkervil River Song Omie Wise Omie Wise On A Balcony On Tour with Zykos One Soul Less on Your Fiery List (The Triffids cov... Our Life Is Not a Movie or Maybe Pink-Slips Piratess Plan D (Bill Fay cover) Plus Ones Pop Lie Pulled Up the River Red Rider Riot Act Savannah Smiles Seas Too Far To Reach See See Rider She Would Look for Me Show Yourself Simon Smith and the Amazing Dancing Bear (Randy Ne... Singer Songwriter So Come Back, I Am Waiting Solo (Sandy Denny) Song About A Star Song of Our So-Called Friend Stand Ins, Pt. 1 Starry Stairs Stay Young The Industry The Blonde In The Bleachers (Joni Mitchell) The End of the Innocence The Latest Toughs The Next Four Months The Rise The Room I'm Hiding In The Valley The Velocity Of Saul At The Time Of His Conversion The War Criminal Rises And Speaks This House Is Not a Home Title Track Unless It Kicks Unless It's Kicks Unravel (Björk cover) Wake and Be Fine Walked Out On A Line Walking Without Frankie We Need a Myth Weave Room Blues Westfall What Are They Doing In Heaven Today? Where The Spirit Left Us White White Shadow Waltz Whole Wide World Willow Tree Yellow You Can't Hold The Hand Of A Rock And Roll Man Your Past Life as a Blast Your Past Life as a Blast