Okkervil River - From A Cutlass Cruiser lyrics

What a day we had
I figured I'd be feeling bad
But I don't feel a thing
They read from Mark and bring us
All up Shingle Camp Hill Road
Throwing flowers at the ground
Felt like hours
With the grown-ups whimpering
In the blown-out green of spring I
See the whole small town explode

Driving to our house at night
The stars shoot out their shine
Behind the Olds windows
My father quiet behind the wheel
I fully feel that he knows
Where he's trying to go
And then they carry me inside
This other world behind my eyes
This bright-lit neon glow
And then it's morning everywhere
And summer air, and there's the stereo
"The Electric Company" was playing
When my mom
Left me five minutes on the couch
And I was blue when she came out
And wasn't breathing
That Opel flew through town
All down 120, and around the Lebanon green
And out
I don't know what they were thinking about
And I don't want to imagine it

In came the doctor, wearing white
Carefully, he cut a circle in my throat
And took a little plastic tube and looped it
Through my lungs and sealed me closed
My parents called into the room
With no idea what to do
But frightened to say so
They showed them how to clean it out, and
Showed them how to set me down
And sent me home

1983 the apparition came to me and
Spoke to me all night
Frozen inside my bed, bone-white
My brother fast asleep
And, under surgery, a second time it came
Showed me a house in outer space
Another boy who had my face
A mom and dad who weren't the same
I woke up and my aunt gave me a book

Show me the neatest place to hide
To crawl inside the silver gym
Don't tell a single other soul
Beneath the bleachers is a
Lighter, and a sneaker, and a frozen sparrow
I broke into the church at
Night and pulled out
All the stops and heard that organ overload
And screamed
"This giant clashy chord is for Our Lord up
Where he is up where he goes"
Up that music floats leaving family
Friends and home down so small below
And it's still there, for all I know