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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**CAPO 2**
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- lit by lights, lifted by alcohol
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- over acres of loving coast,
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far away from your lonely ghost.
G
Now he’s cool and all,
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floating anchorless. Ports of call:
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where it’s fabulous, after all
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of this watching himself just crawl.
Em A C G
Think you see him?
D
He’s not there,
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that’s just light
C
that’s not yet dead.
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Wait two hours
D Am
and watch what’ll be there instead.
G
Was he small and cold,
D
like a ring you call up from home,
Am
held so tightly his limbs went numb,
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worn away between your finger and thumb?
G
Well, now he’s bought and sold.
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Cry his call number down the phone,
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he can’t hear you – he’s on his float,
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waving down to the folks at home.
Em A C G
Think you see him?
D
He’s not there,
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that’s just light
C
that’s not yet dead.
Em A C G
Wait two hours
D Am
and watch what’ll be there instead.
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As the cameras love all of his faces,
G Em D C
they hide all the traces of you in his heart.
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Stand in line to hold forth on his grace,
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but you won’t even get a head-start,
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D
cascading down from above,
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the eyes of a nation in love
C
are looking on all of their hopes
D
held up.
G
And the words that some
D
screenwriter counted and chose,
Am
and then set in their sequence and froze,
C
unfreeze on his tongue as he speaks
D
for all of us
G
but one.
D
And honey, he’s gone.
Am
And baby, he’s everyone’s.
C D
In the dark sky tonight,
G
cast your eyes
D
on the dim light
Am
that he will become.
C D
You’re like everyone
Em A C G
Who thinks they see him
D
He’s not there,
Am
that’s just light
C
that’s not yet dead.
Em A C G
Wait two hours
D Am
and watch what’ll be there instead.
G
He cut your strings so that he could float
D
- lit by lights, lifted by alcohol
Am
- over acres of loving coast,
C D
far away from your lonely ghost.
G
Now he’s cool and all,
D
floating anchorless. Ports of call:
Am
where it’s fabulous, after all
C D
of this watching himself just crawl.
Em A C G
Think you see him?
D
He’s not there,
Am
that’s just light
C
that’s not yet dead.
Em A C G
Wait two hours
D Am
and watch what’ll be there instead.
G
Was he small and cold,
D
like a ring you call up from home,
Am
held so tightly his limbs went numb,
C D
worn away between your finger and thumb?
G
Well, now he’s bought and sold.
D
Cry his call number down the phone,
Am
he can’t hear you – he’s on his float,
C D
waving down to the folks at home.
Em A C G
Think you see him?
D
He’s not there,
Am
that’s just light
C
that’s not yet dead.
Em A C G
Wait two hours
D Am
and watch what’ll be there instead.
Em D C Am
As the cameras love all of his faces,
G Em D C
they hide all the traces of you in his heart.
Em G C Am
Stand in line to hold forth on his grace,
Em Am
but you won’t even get a head-start,
C D
Get a head start
G D Am C D
G D Am C D
G
As his close-up comes
D
cascading down from above,
Am
the eyes of a nation in love
C
are looking on all of their hopes
D
held up.
G
And the words that some
D
screenwriter counted and chose,
Am
and then set in their sequence and froze,
C
unfreeze on his tongue as he speaks
D
for all of us
G
but one.
D
And honey, he’s gone.
Am
And baby, he’s everyone’s.
C D
In the dark sky tonight,
G
cast your eyes
D
on the dim light
Am
that he will become.
C D
You’re like everyone
Em A C G
Who thinks they see him
D
He’s not there,
Am
that’s just light
C
that’s not yet dead.
Em A C G
Wait two hours
D Am
and watch what’ll be there instead.
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