Okkervil River - Our Life Is Not A Movie Or Maybe lyrics

It's just a bad movie
Where there's no crying
Handing the keys to me in this Red Lion
Where the lock that you locked in
The suite says there's no prying
When the breath that you breathed
In the street screams, "There's no science"
When you look how you looked then to me
Then I cease lying and fall into silence

It's just a life story, so there's no climax
No more new territory, so put away your IMAX
In the slot that you
Sliced through the scene
There was no shyness in the plot that you
Passed through your teeth, there was no pity
No fade in: film begins on a
Kid in the big city and no cut to a costly
Parade that's for him only
No dissolve to a sliver of grey
That's his new lady
Where she glows just like grain on the
Flickering pane of some great movie
Hey, watch it!

Hoo hoo! Hoo hoo!
Hoo hoo! Hoo hoo!

It's just a house burning
But it's not haunted
It was your heart hurting, but
Not for too long, kid
In the socket you spin from with ease
There is no sticking from the speakers
Your fake masterpiece comes
Serenely dribbling
And when the air around your
Chair fills with heat
That's the flames licking
Beneath the clock on the clean mantelpiece
It's got a calm clicking
Like a pro at his editing
Suite takes two weeks stitching
Up some bad movie

Hoo hoo! Hoo hoo!
Hoo hoo! Hoo hoo!
Hoo hoo!