Okkervil River R.I.P.

Hey my little baby
Pointing at the sky's amazing in the lake now
All of this sensation in the 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
It will 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 Sadie's and the literary ladies wish me well now
A slob upon a plane that through the air is silver swaying into sun now
I hightail my cool hair cut through the turnstiles of the airports on the run now
Flip a couple hundred pages, I was turning 38, I was a horrible sight
You've got a bad day coming
A sad day coming now

I'll wear a white suit and black sunglasses to the last match now
Okay.

Then give me one last kiss in your pink silk dress, I guess
Said I have lost all will, oh with my face pressed against your breast
And I had pill for the kings, pills from palace medicine chest
I cried a quarter 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 Shawn had told me how to force seventy's times
Lou Gehrig's disease, laid TCD, low mercury had a heart attack back in '95
And when DJ Doctor Rock when nobody knows
I'll see my grandfather, T Holmes, but more laid up in his hospital clothes
But I think about Judey still dying in some trailer park out cocaine and codeine unknown
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
Oh but I didn't open up my mouth just to piss and moan
No way

All the air is glittering I went and hit the skating rink alone, now
I watched the kids all skim across the ice, they look so nice, it was so cold out
And then I coughed into my cupped hands and crossed the rink so I could hear the band
Two guitars, a drummer, a chick singer with a curtsy, while on a keyboard stand
And I said play that cover, I said, play that cover song again