Okkervil River - Murderess lyrics
[Okkervil River - Murderess lyrics]
Who wrote those lines on the wall?
Let's retrace where they
Scrawled ancient characters
Ooh, did your sister take the fall?
She was moved most of all
By how you flattered her
I don't think that you would sink
That ship that's only passing through
'Cause I don't believe that you
Would be a murderess
But I saw inside each dark brown eye
As it was turning blue
All the strength inside to do just what
The captain says and hang the rest
"Ooh, " went the line in the song
And we knew that it was wrong
(though we believed in it)
"Ooh, " went the wall all night long
But a lie's a lie
No matter what guy's breath's in it
I don't know that it would show that
It's a lie right off to you
But I don't think I could see
Through the things protecting it
Did you see inside each outright lie
As it was turning true
The ability to do all things expected of it
I don't think that you would sink
That ship that's only passing through
'Cause I don't believe that you
Would be a piratess
Did you see inside each outright lie
As it was turning true
All the strength inside to do
All things the captain says?
Oh, murderess, in the wilderness
With your victims all around you
Their combined love forms a pool
Your knife's reflected in
And now I'm ready, too, with my
Throat to you, on this island, by this moon
What I want the most to do
Is show I'm not like them
Let's retrace where they
Scrawled ancient characters
Ooh, did your sister take the fall?
She was moved most of all
By how you flattered her
I don't think that you would sink
That ship that's only passing through
'Cause I don't believe that you
Would be a murderess
But I saw inside each dark brown eye
As it was turning blue
All the strength inside to do just what
The captain says and hang the rest
"Ooh, " went the line in the song
And we knew that it was wrong
(though we believed in it)
"Ooh, " went the wall all night long
But a lie's a lie
No matter what guy's breath's in it
I don't know that it would show that
It's a lie right off to you
But I don't think I could see
Through the things protecting it
Did you see inside each outright lie
As it was turning true
The ability to do all things expected of it
I don't think that you would sink
That ship that's only passing through
'Cause I don't believe that you
Would be a piratess
Did you see inside each outright lie
As it was turning true
All the strength inside to do
All things the captain says?
Oh, murderess, in the wilderness
With your victims all around you
Their combined love forms a pool
Your knife's reflected in
And now I'm ready, too, with my
Throat to you, on this island, by this moon
What I want the most to do
Is show I'm not like them