Biography:
Okkervil River is an indie/folk rock band from Austin, Texas USA. Formed in 1998, the band takes its name from a short story by Russian author Tatyana Tolstaya. The band currently consists of Will Sheff (vocals, guitar), Will Graefe (guitar), Sarah K. Pedinotti (keyboards), Benjamin Lazar Davis (bass) and Cully Symington (drums).
The band self-released their first album, Stars Too Small to Use, which led them to the South by Southwest music festival.
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Other songs:
- A Favor (guitar Solo)
- A Stone
- Lost Coastlines
- Maine Island Lovers
- Our Life Is Not A Movie Or Maybe
- Plus Ones
- Song Of Our So-called Friend
- Westfall
- A Girl In Port
- A Glow
- A Hand To Take Hold Of The Scene
- A King And A Queen
- All The Time Everyday
- Another Radio Song
- Auntie Alice
- Black
- Black Nemo
- 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
- Comes Indiana Through The Smoke
- Dead Faces
- Do What You Gotta Do
- Dont Move Back To La
- Down Down The Deep River
- Famous Tracheotomies
- For Real
- For The Enemy
- From A Cutlass Cruiser
- Get Big
- Hanging From A Hit
- Happy Hearts
- It Ends With A Fall
- It Was My Season
- John Allyn Smith Sails
- Kansas City
- Lady Liberty
- Lay Of The Last Survivor
- Lido Pier Suicide Car
- Lines
- Listening To Otis Redding At Home During Christmas
- Love To A Monster
- Mary On A Wave
- No Hidden Track
- No Key No Plan
- Oh Precious
- Okkervil River Rip
- Okkervil River Song
- On A Balcony
- On Tour With Zykos
- Pink Slips
- Piratess
- Pop Lie
- Presidents Dead
- Red
- Rider
- Seas Too Far To Reach
- She Would Look For Me
- Simon Smith And The Amazing Dancing Bear
- Singer Songwriter
- So Come Back I Am Waiting
- Song About A Star
- Song Of Our So
- Starry Stairs
- The Industry
- The Latest Toughs
- The Next Four Months
- The Rise
- The Valley
- The War Criminal Rises And Speaks
- Title Track
- Unless Its Kicks
- Wake And Be Fine
- We Need A Myth
- Where The Spirit Left Us
- White
- White Shadow Waltz
- Yellow
- You Cant Hold The Hand Of A Rock And Roll Man
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[Intro]
C Em G Em
[Verse]
F G
I thought I saw my god, through frays of total blood,
F G
at some Hampton Beach club. And half-convinced he had
F
the things I thought he did...
G
Hey, Ritchie, it's your dad.
F G
I've gone so far away now, kid. From coast to coast and far beyond.
F G
The waves rose up like gasps out on the astral sea,
F G
starships shifting in the crud... Don't believe that stuff on your TV.
C
No, I've got to leave. I can't come back.
C D C Em
[Chorus]
F G
Lido Pier suicide car.
F G
Lido Pier suicide car.
F G
Lido Pier suicide car.
C Em F
It's a straight shot drive to a life full of stars.
[Verse]
F G
At first it seemed a little speck, and then it seemed a little mist.
F G
We took our drinks out to the deck. We watched that silver ladder twist.
F G
We flew over the hills, the harbor bar. Over the wakeward-flashing spray.
F G
We watched it shrink, that Jag, that Jaguar. We watched our old friends fall away.
[Chorus]
F G
My heart, oh, feel it pounding
F G
to watch our little town receding.
F G C
They're not knowing why or how we're leaving, only believing
C D C Em
F G
in a Lido Pier suicide car.
F G
Lido Pier suicide car.
F G
Lido Pier suicide car.
F G
Lido Pier suicide, suicide.
F G
Lido Pier suicide car.
[Bridge]
F C F C
He's a ramrod handshake stud. He's a steward of a land
F C F C
hand-washed in hero's blood. He's a lodger of demands.
F C F C
He's the hassler of the gassed-up graspers trying to make their grands.
F C F C
When he catches me in freezing seas, he'll lead me into land.
F C F C
He says he's gonna break my band. I just have to take that hand.
G
Oh, crocodile!
[Chorus]
F G
And can you hear the shouting,
F G
out there beyond the boundary?
F G
Some distant voice is sounding, and what is it saying?
F G
Something about a Lido Pier suicide car.
F G
Lido Pier suicide car.
F G C
Lido Pier suicide suicide car.
C Em G Em
[Verse]
F G
I thought I saw my god, through frays of total blood,
F G
at some Hampton Beach club. And half-convinced he had
F
the things I thought he did...
G
Hey, Ritchie, it's your dad.
F G
I've gone so far away now, kid. From coast to coast and far beyond.
F G
The waves rose up like gasps out on the astral sea,
F G
starships shifting in the crud... Don't believe that stuff on your TV.
C
No, I've got to leave. I can't come back.
C D C Em
[Chorus]
F G
Lido Pier suicide car.
F G
Lido Pier suicide car.
F G
Lido Pier suicide car.
C Em F
It's a straight shot drive to a life full of stars.
[Verse]
F G
At first it seemed a little speck, and then it seemed a little mist.
F G
We took our drinks out to the deck. We watched that silver ladder twist.
F G
We flew over the hills, the harbor bar. Over the wakeward-flashing spray.
F G
We watched it shrink, that Jag, that Jaguar. We watched our old friends fall away.
[Chorus]
F G
My heart, oh, feel it pounding
F G
to watch our little town receding.
F G C
They're not knowing why or how we're leaving, only believing
C D C Em
F G
in a Lido Pier suicide car.
F G
Lido Pier suicide car.
F G
Lido Pier suicide car.
F G
Lido Pier suicide, suicide.
F G
Lido Pier suicide car.
[Bridge]
F C F C
He's a ramrod handshake stud. He's a steward of a land
F C F C
hand-washed in hero's blood. He's a lodger of demands.
F C F C
He's the hassler of the gassed-up graspers trying to make their grands.
F C F C
When he catches me in freezing seas, he'll lead me into land.
F C F C
He says he's gonna break my band. I just have to take that hand.
G
Oh, crocodile!
[Chorus]
F G
And can you hear the shouting,
F G
out there beyond the boundary?
F G
Some distant voice is sounding, and what is it saying?
F G
Something about a Lido Pier suicide car.
F G
Lido Pier suicide car.
F G C
Lido Pier suicide suicide car.
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