Singer Songwriter
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 Cuss 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

You've got outsider art by an artist who arguably kidnapped a kid on your 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

You wrote your thesis on the Gospel of Thomas

You shot some reversal film in Angkor Wat

And this book you once read

Says 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

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 our world is gonna change nothing


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  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 R.I.P.   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...   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

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