Okkervil River - Down Down the Deep River lyrics

Spit into the center of your home town
There is leaves in the street and
There are friends around you now
All the days of your life in a line
All the way that it seemed by '89

But it's not all right
It's not even close to all right

Down a hall in your house
Down a road in December
(Down, down, down the deep river, down, down
Down the deep river)
Down a hall in your house
Down a road in December
(Down, down, down the deep river, down, down
Down the deep river)

We lie awake at night in a tent and I say
"Tell me about your uncle and his friend
Cause they seem like very bad men
Well, we wanna keep away from them"
Bend in the road back there
We saw the place they go
Tell me about the greatest show or
The greatest movie you know
Or the greatest song that you
Taped from off the radio
You're gonna play it again and again
It cuts off at the ending, though
Tell me I'm always gonna be your best friend
Now you said it one time
Why don't you say it again?
All the way down the line
To where the telephone ends
Come on and shout it on down the wire

But it's not all right
Not even close to all right

Down a hall in your house
Down a road in December
(Down, down, down the deep river, down, down
Down the deep river)
Down a hall in your house
Down a road in December
(Down, down, down the deep river, down, down
Down the deep river)

And as the rescue party, the volunteer team
Ah, they're just kids of eighteen
And it's the worst thing they've seen
And they're standing all around that tree
And I'm so sorry that I can't stop crying
(Oh, I know)

Shivering from the late fall cold
I felt like a solid ghost
I ran and then I couldn't slow
My father found me though
My father took me home
He said, "Oh, son, I saw you get knocked down
And I ran out i bet your head was spinning
With that bright pain you stunned
When you've only just begun to
Be only just beginning"
Tossed in the viper pit
All those feelings and fears
And all that difficult shit in
All those tender years
There was something in the air
Something gathered in the air
Something singing in the wind
Oh, I'll be your fighter and
You'll be my mirror
And you'll be all right because
I'll be right here
Oh kid, now I'm not going anywhere
I swear I'll try to not be going anywhere

Though it's not all right it's
So far from all right
We'll make it into a choice somehow
I don't know
But you'll have a choice somehow

Down a hall in your house
Down a road in December
(Down, down, down the deep river, down, down
Down the deep river)
We can never go back we can only remember
(Down, down, down the deep river, down, down
Down the deep river)

Maybe they told you about the summer sky
Maybe said there's a great gold
Spirit in the summer sky all your friends
(all your best, best friends)
Are gonna gather around your bed at night

Well that'll make it all right because it
Is still so far from all right
Oh, kid, I know

Down a hall in your house
Down a road in December
(Down, down, down the deep river, down, down
Down the deep river)
Up the stairs four flights up can
You feel my heart shiver?
(Down, down, down the deep river, down, down
Down the deep river)
Waking in the dawn with that
Dream getting dimmer and dimmer
(Down, down, down the deep river, down, down
Down the deep river)
I said, "Are we going down
Are we going down
Are we going down the deep river? Oh
Down the deep river?"
(Down, down, down the deep river, down, down
Down the deep river)
Down down, down down, down
The deep river down, down the deep river
(Down, down, down the deep river, down, down
Down the deep river)
Why don't you, why don't you
Say you still see it, say you remember?
(Down, down, down the deep river, down, down
Down the deep river)
Are we going down, are we going down, are
We going down, are we going down
Are we going down?
(Down, down, down the deep river, down, down
Down the deep river)
Are we going down, are we going down, are
We going down, are we going down
Are we going down the deep river?
(Down, down, down the deep river, down, down
Down the deep river)
Because I know it's scary, baby
(Down, down, down the deep river, down, down
Down the deep river)