Okkervil River - All the Time Every Day lyrics

Do you stop and stare
Struck dumb, hands shaking, washed
By this constant
Panicked wishing for what's lost?
As you're standing on some
Curb waiting to cross
Would you say you feel like some weak leaf
Wind turned and tossed?

All the time, every day, every day
All the time all the time, every day
Every day

As the streets sail by the
Seats inside your car
Does each face outside collide
Against your heart?
As you watch them blaze or fade into the dark
Do you want to scream that you're
So pleased with who they are?
Every day, all the time
All the time, every day
Every day, all the time every day

When that moment arrives
(oh, that sweet and tender pain)
Do you think how there'll come a time
When you'll never feel it again?
Do you try to make it right by
Thinking if someone else feels it
It's real and it won't go away? Do you?

Do you fall so short of
All that's in your heart?
When your friends, that you should pull up
You instead pick apart?
Do you watch the world get cold, and crushed
And small? And when you could do so much
You do fuck all?

All the time, every day
Every day, all the time
All the time, every day every day

And considering all this
And agreeing that it's true
Is it harder each time just
To feel something new?
But do you sometimes wish
Not to feel anymore?
To wall it off? To make it all go away?
To just put it to an end?
No question, any day all the way, every time
Any day, any time, all the way

When you pray for grace to come
Were you born yesterday
Are you dumb? Are you insane?
Don't be ashamed, I'm the same
Yeah, I'm that way
But I try, every day and all the time