Okkervil River - Lost Coastlines(70 visits)

Packed and all eyes turned in

No one to see on the key
no one waving for me
just the shoreline receding
ticket in my hand

I think and wish I didn't hand it in

'cause who said sailing is fine?

Leaving behind all the faces that I
Might replace if I tried

on that long ride
looking deep inside

but I don't want to look so deep inside yet

Sit down, sit down on the prow
to wave bye

there might not be another stop
farther on the line
look out, look out at each town
that glides by
and there's no crowd
to drown the crying eyes

And see how that light you love now
just wont shine?

well there might just be another star

that's high and far in some other sky


we sing "is that marionette real enough yet

to step off of that set and decide
what a dance might be to it?"

ruining the play too
and in the ensuing melee escape

we packed up all of our bags

and the ship's deck now sags

from the weight of our tracks

as we pace beneath flags

black and battered

rattling our swords

in service of some
faded foreign lord



and Jonathan says 

"we sail out on order of him

but we find that the maps he sent to us

don't mention lost coastlines

where nothing we've actually seen

has been mapped or outlined

and we don't recognize the names
upon strange signs"



and every night finds us rocking

and rolling on waves wild and white

Well we have lost our way

nobody's gonna say it out right

we just go:

la la lalalalala lala
lalalala la la la
oooh ohhhh













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