Oh, Precious Lyrics
I live in a building where nobody knows me,
I go to bed early, I sleep in my clothes.
At night I hear screaming down in the street,
I dream that I'm slipping, I reach for my feet.
Precious, we are falling down,
catch us.
I fill in the holes in my vision with dexedrine,
the landscape spins sideways, the movies and magazines
whisper as they hide on soft silky surfaces
surely my neighbors and friends have ther purposes here.
The building is maddening, thirty floors high
they are building a needle that pierces the sky
like a cold vaccination, like a smile through a polaroid,
surely my neighbors and friends want to be destroyed.
Precious, we are falling down,
catch us.
Oh no, down we go again.
Lend me a leaf from the rill,
lifting the dreams from you,
they sift through the meshes of the ancient afternoon.
Leave me alone for awhile,
leave me alone with your smile,
and listen to the breaking,
all the buildings we are making will be gone.
Precious, we are falling down, falling down,
catch us.
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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 Oh, Precious

Okkervil River Albums (7)
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