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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Chords:
G 320033
D 000232
Am7 002010
C 032010
C/B 020010
[Verse 1]
G D Am7
Hey, my little baby, pointing at the sky's amazing in the lake now.
G D Am7
All of this sensation and no space on earth to place it where it's safe now.
C C/B Am7
You've got a big day coming. A big day coming now.
[Verse 2]
G D Am7
Gather, crowd, around me, in the gutter where you found me. Help me stand now.
G D Am7
My body, it is aching, and my poor old heart is breaking, and I'm so freaked out.
C C/B Am7
We've got a big chance coming. A big chance coming now.
[Verse 3]
G D Am7
All the little Sadies and the literary ladies wish me well now.
G D Am7
A slob upon a plane that through the air is silver swaying into sun now.
G D Am7
I hightail my cool haircut through the turnstiles of the airport on the run now
G D Am7
Flip a couple hundred pages; I was turning thirty-eight. I was a horrible sight.
C C/B Am7
You've got a bad day coming. A sad day coming 'round.
C C/B Am7
I'll wear a white suit and black sunglasses to the last mass now.
N.C.
Okay.
[Bridge]
C C/B Am7
Then give me one last kiss in your pink silk dress, I guess.
C C/B Am7
Said, "I have lost all will to," with my face pressed against your breast.
C C/B Am7
And I have pilfered the king's pills From the palace medicine chest.
C C/B Am7
I cried a quart of crocodile tears onto Allison Anne's pink champagne glass.
C C/B Am7
I was escorted from the premises for being a mess.
[Verse 4]
G D Am7
And it's just like when John Howe told me how the Force MDs died.
G D Am7
Lou Gehrig's disease laid T.C.D. low. Mercury had a heart attack back in '95.
C C/B Am7
And where DJ Doctor Rock went nobody knows.
[Verse 5]
G D Am7
I see my grandfather, T. Holmes "Bud" Moore laid up in his hospital clothes.
G D Am7
But I think about Judee Sill dying in some trailer park, out of cocaine and codeine all alone.
C C/B Am7
It was a big waste, brother. Such a big waste. Yeah, I know.
C C/B Am7
They had some great songs; must have been a great time, so long ago.
C C/B Am7
But I didn't open up my mouth just to piss and moan.
N.C.
No way.
[Outro]
G D Am7
All the air is glitter and I went and hit the skating rink alone now.
G D Am7
I'll watch the kids all skim across the ice. They look so nice. It was so cold out.
C C/B Am7
And then I coughed into my cupped hands across the rink so I could hear the band.
G D Am7
Two guitars, a drummer, a chick singer with a Kurzweil on a keyboard stand.
C C/B Am7
And I said, "Play that cover," I said, "Play that cover song again."
G 320033
D 000232
Am7 002010
C 032010
C/B 020010
[Verse 1]
G D Am7
Hey, my little baby, pointing at the sky's amazing in the lake now.
G D Am7
All of this sensation and no space on earth to place it where it's safe now.
C C/B Am7
You've got a big day coming. A big day coming now.
[Verse 2]
G D Am7
Gather, crowd, around me, in the gutter where you found me. Help me stand now.
G D Am7
My body, it is aching, and my poor old heart is breaking, and I'm so freaked out.
C C/B Am7
We've got a big chance coming. A big chance coming now.
[Verse 3]
G D Am7
All the little Sadies and the literary ladies wish me well now.
G D Am7
A slob upon a plane that through the air is silver swaying into sun now.
G D Am7
I hightail my cool haircut through the turnstiles of the airport on the run now
G D Am7
Flip a couple hundred pages; I was turning thirty-eight. I was a horrible sight.
C C/B Am7
You've got a bad day coming. A sad day coming 'round.
C C/B Am7
I'll wear a white suit and black sunglasses to the last mass now.
N.C.
Okay.
[Bridge]
C C/B Am7
Then give me one last kiss in your pink silk dress, I guess.
C C/B Am7
Said, "I have lost all will to," with my face pressed against your breast.
C C/B Am7
And I have pilfered the king's pills From the palace medicine chest.
C C/B Am7
I cried a quart of crocodile tears onto Allison Anne's pink champagne glass.
C C/B Am7
I was escorted from the premises for being a mess.
[Verse 4]
G D Am7
And it's just like when John Howe told me how the Force MDs died.
G D Am7
Lou Gehrig's disease laid T.C.D. low. Mercury had a heart attack back in '95.
C C/B Am7
And where DJ Doctor Rock went nobody knows.
[Verse 5]
G D Am7
I see my grandfather, T. Holmes "Bud" Moore laid up in his hospital clothes.
G D Am7
But I think about Judee Sill dying in some trailer park, out of cocaine and codeine all alone.
C C/B Am7
It was a big waste, brother. Such a big waste. Yeah, I know.
C C/B Am7
They had some great songs; must have been a great time, so long ago.
C C/B Am7
But I didn't open up my mouth just to piss and moan.
N.C.
No way.
[Outro]
G D Am7
All the air is glitter and I went and hit the skating rink alone now.
G D Am7
I'll watch the kids all skim across the ice. They look so nice. It was so cold out.
C C/B Am7
And then I coughed into my cupped hands across the rink so I could hear the band.
G D Am7
Two guitars, a drummer, a chick singer with a Kurzweil on a keyboard stand.
C C/B Am7
And I said, "Play that cover," I said, "Play that cover song again."
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