Okkervil River Song lyrics

Artist  : Okkervil River 
Song : Okkervil River Song
 
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 of
the branches on the shore as it had on Okkervil
River before. Down by Okkervil River’s
cigarettes and rusty tires, we made ourselves an
altar, we lit our nightly fires. And the smoke
lay thick and smothered all the skunk cabbage and
vines where Gods were born and Gods lay down to
die. With your hand inside my pocket, you
whispered 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 bones, we have found a place where we
can be alone.� And I tried to tell you, as I
kissed your hard dry lips, all the things I
dreamed about. I touched your bone white hips.
Far away our parents slept in while 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. Then I woke up one cold morning, felt
an absence at my back, and I searched and stared
but only the river stared