Okkervil River - Song About a Star lyrics

He cut your strings so that he
Could float - lit by lights
Lifted by alcohol
Over acres of loving coast
Far away from your lonely ghost
Now he’s cool and all
Floating anchorless ports of call
Where it’s fabulous
After all of this watching himself just crawl

Think you see him? He’s not there
That’s just light that’s not yet dead
Wait two hours and watch
What’ll be there instead

Was he small and cold
Like a ring you call up from home
Held so tightly his limbs went numb
Worn away between your finger and thumb?
Well, now he’s bought and sold cry
His call number down the phone
He can’t hear you - he’s on his float
Waving down to the folks at home

Think you see him? He’s not there
That’s just light that’s not yet dead
Wait two hours and watch
What’ll be there instead

As the cameras love all of his faces
They hide all the traces of you in his heart
Stand in line to hold forth on his grace
But you won’t even get a head-start
Get a head-start

As his close-up comes cascading
Down from above
The eyes of a nation in love are looking
On all of their hopes held up
And the words that some
Screenwriter counted and chose
And then set in their sequence and froze
Unfreeze on his tongue as he
Speaks for all of us

But one and honey, he’s gone and baby
He’s everyone’s in the dark sky tonight
Cast your eyes on the dim light
That he will become you’re like everyone

Who thinks they see him he’s not there
That’s just light that’s not yet dead
Wait two hours
And watch what’ll be there instead