For The Captain Lyrics
Relax, no song is written
It's nothing you thought of yourself
It's just a ghost, came unbidden
To this house
This infection gets stronger every year
This seed in the water of your tear
There's no escaping it
This seed in the water of your tear
the way an unborn baby's ear
Unfolds in your belly
This infection gets stronger every year
This direction of a tear rolling down your cheek
And there's no escaping it
There's no escaping
The thing that is making
Its home in your radio
Bless this tiny alley
We have fallen from tall buildings
We have fallen
Bless the birth of him
The chapel he was killed in
All your tiny flowers
They have sat under the sidewalk
They have waited for the pieces
Of the summer sun to show us
All that is your beauty
All and all that is your treasure
I could smell your skin beside me
Say I hope I'm here forever
Oh but captain with your lovers
With your list of sacred pillows
With your sacred list of children
And the wall where you drew windows
Overlooking tiny gardens
Cut in half by jagged mountains
And the secret sacred sharing
That went on beside the fountain
Where the water waits forever
For a tiny, tiny treasure
That will rise up and recover
That will leave this tiny alley
When you meet me in the garden
With your wings all dipped in cedar
All those spirits brushing past me
Brushing past me in the ether
Say all this is window dressing
All you are is tiny curtains
They will flame, they will flame up
You won't know that you are BURNING!
BURNING!
BURNING!
BURNING!
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Okkervil River Songs (97) List All
A Girl In Port
A Glow
A Hand To Take Hold Of The Scene
A King And A Queen
A Stone
Another Radio Song
Auntie Alice
Black
Black Sheep Boy
Blanket And Crib
Blue Tulip
Bruce Wayne Campbell Interviewed On The Roof Of The Chelsea Hotel, 1979
Calling And Not Calling My Ex
Can't Be Saved
Dead Dog Song
Dead Faces
Dead!
F.C.P.R.E.M.I.X
Falling Away With You
For Real
For The Captain
For The Enemy
Get Big
H.
Hanging From A Hit
Happy Hearts
He Passes Number Thirty-Three
Heaven Help Us
I Hate Myself And Want to Die
Icky Thump
If I Ain't Got You
If I Fall
Imagine
In A Radio Song
In My Daughter's Eyes
In The Name Of God
It Ends With A Fall
John Allyn Smith Sails
Kansas City
Kathy Keller
Lady Liberty
Lay Of The Last Survivor
Listening To Otis Redding At Home During Christmas
Little Wonder
Lost Coastlines
Lucky
Maine Island Lovers
Millionaire
Missing
My Bad Days
Oh, Precious
Ohio Is For Lovers
Okkervil River Song
On Tour With Zykos
Our Life Is Not A Movie Or Maybe
Pain
Piratess
Plus Ones
Pop Lie
Progenies of The Great Apocalypse
Red
Reinventing Your Exit
Rider
Running Up That Hill
Sad But True
Sanitarium
Savannah Smiles
Seas Too Far To Reach
Silence Is A Scary Sound
Singer Songwriter
So Come Back, I Am Waiting
Sober
Soldiers Of The Wasteland
Song About A Star
Song of Our So-Called Friend
Stand Ins, One
Stand Ins, Two
Starry Stairs
The Last Night
The Latest Toughs
The Rise
The Valley
The Velocity Of Saul At The Time Of His Conversion
The War Criminal Rises And Speaks
Title Track
Unless It Kicks
Vermillion, Pt. 2
Wake And Be Fine
We Need A Myth
Westfall
What Sarah Said
White Shadow Waltz
Whole Wide World
Wires
Yellow
You Can't Hold The Hand Of A Rock And Roll Man
Your Past Life As A Blast
Stream For The Captain
Okkervil River Albums (7)
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