Okkervil River - Okkervil River Song lyrics

Down by Okkervil River slow
Silent thick and black
I stared into the water and
The water it stared back
The night it fell from the tangles
Of the branches on the shore
As it had on Okkervil River before

Down by Okkervil River's cigarettes
And rusty tires we made ourselves an altar
We lit our nightly fires
And the smoke lay thick and smothered
All the skunk cabbage and vines
Where Gods were born and Gods lay down to die

With your hand inside my pocket
You whispered in my ear
"We have come from ugliness to
Find some refuge here
With this bracken for a blanket
Where these limbs stick out like bones
We have found a place where
We can be alone" Oh

And I tried to tell you as
I kissed your hard dry lips
All the things I dreamed about
I touched your bone white hips
Far away our parents slept in as
We watched our fire burn
They dreamed of nothing and
Got nothing in return

And the water slipped on slowly past
Our bodies in the weeds
Pulling plastic wrap and razors on it
Is current through the reeds
Then I woke up one cold morning
Felt an absence at my back
And I searched and stared but
Only the river stared back
And I searched and stared but
Only the river stared back
And I searched and stared but
Only the river stared back