Okkervil River - The Latest Toughs lyrics

All the latest toughs
You've got to shrug them off or shut them off
With ten-thousand-time-told truths
You've still got to ask for proof
Ask for proof, because if you're dying to be
Led they'll lead you up the hill in chains
To their popular refrains
Until your slaughter's been arranged
My little lamb
And it's much too late to talk
The knife out of their hands

Well, I woke up on a foggy
Morning hiding from the sun
He was hiding from the sun
But it came out and it shot
It's rays down burning everyone
It was burning everyone
But they were dying, anyway, to turn to ash
To feel their feelings flash
And finally fade away
In a fabulous and fiery display

Look, though, i don't know what notes you
Want to hear played
I can't think what lines you'd like
Me to sing or say, and I'm not sure what
Subjects you want mentioned
So pause and add your own intentions
Let's pause and add our own
Let's pause and add our own intentions

All the latest toughs, well
We have seen that stuff
And we have seen enough
Blood in dying coughs
Which means that we have lost we have lost
And if you're crying to be
Tossed they'll toss you
Down the oubliette with all
The old things that
You let yourself forget because you'd like
To love a star who'd
Throw you down below the ground
He thinks you are