Okkervil River - Blanket and Crib lyrics

Safe, safe enjoy your time feeling so safe
And treasure that smile on your face, okay?
‘Cause time will see that it’s
Replaced in a while so go on & smile
Smile, handshakes all around
That’s your style
And no one would call it denial
For you’re not even sure what’s in store
Though it’s more

Than you’ll be able to
Take standing up straight
And it won’t be okay
And you won’t be somebody who
It’s just happening to
It’s a trap that you, and only you

Have laid
Laid with a towel up over your face
In your armchair, just lying in wait
Waiting forces were gathering
Outside your door
They sharpened their knives
Knives and smiled with no
Smiles in their eyes
A little bit larger in size
And a little bit hungrier for that tiny prize

And my mother she said "Son, remember this
No matter what someone did
That they once were just a kid
At breast and in bib, in blanket and crib
So just reach inside yourself and find
That part that still needs help
Find that part in someone else
And you’ll do good"
So I thought that I would, Mother

So hey hey I love you, it goes without saying
I would give you the world on a tray
Though they’re already tracing a
Line across your throat
Far too late in the game you’ll
Find that you have been betrayed
Propped up and pushed into your place
I could claim that it all would go great
But the reason I came
Is to say that it won’t
You should know that it won’t
You should know that it won’t
You should know that it won’t
And so, Phillip, let go