Okkervil River R.I.P.

Hey, my little baby Pointing at the sky's amazing In the lake now All of this sensation And no space on earth to place it Where it's safe now You've got a big day coming A big day coming now Gather, crowd, around me In the gutter where you found me Help me stand now My body, it is aching And my poor old heart is breaking And I'm so freaked out We've got a big chance coming A big chance coming now All the little Sadies And the literary ladies Wish me well now A slab upon a plane that Through the air is silver swaying Into sun now I hightail my cool haircut Through the turnstiles of the airport On the run now Flip a couple hundred pages I was turning thirty-eight I was a horrible sight You've got a bad day coming A sad day coming 'round I'll wear a white suit and black sunglasses To the last mass now Okay Then give me one last kiss In your pink silk dress, I guess Said, "I have lost all will to" With my face pressed against your breast And I have pilfered the king's pills From the palace medicine chest I cried a quart of crocodile tears Onto Allison Anne's pink champagne glass I was escorted from the premises For being a mess And it's just like when John Howe told me How the Force MDs died Lou Gehrig's disease laid T.C.D. low Mercury had a heart attack back in '95 And where DJ Doctor Rock went Nobody knows I see my grandfather, T. Holmes "Bud" Moore laid up in his hospital clothes But I think about Judee Sill dying in some trailer park Out of cocaine and codeine all alone It was a big waste Brother, such a big waste Yeah, I know They had some great songs Must have been a great time So long ago But I didn't open up my mouth Just to piss and moan No way All the air is glitter And I went and hit the Skating rink alone now I'll watch the kids all skim across the ice They look so nice It was so cold out And then I coughed into my cupped hands Across the rink so I could hear the band Two guitars, a drummer A chick singer with a Kurzweil On a keyboard stand And I said, "Play that cover" I said, "Play that cover song again" --- Okkervil River R.I.P. - Okkervil River