Okkervil River - Piratess lyrics

Who wrote those lines on the wall?
Let's retrace where they
Scrawled ancient characters
It's 2: 00 and your sister's slip, it falls
And the afternoon crawls across the
Room and tackles her

I don't think that you would sink
That ship that's only passing through
'Cause I don't believe that you
Might be a murderess
But I saw inside each small
Dark eye as it was turning blue
All the strength inside to do just what
The captain says and hang the rest

And moved by the rhyme in the psalm
We agreed that it was wrong
And to believe in it
Ooh, swooned 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 I would go
That far down some dark avenue
With a whispering crew of
Shadows all protecting it
But I saw inside each small white
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
Might be a piratess
Did you hide inside each small white lie
Before you turned it true
The ability 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 mountain by this moon
And what I want the most to do
Is prove that I'm not like them