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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[Verse 1]
C Em
The heart wants to feel. The heart wants to hold
Am F
The heart takes past Subway, past Stop and Shop, past Beal's, and calls it coming home
Dm G
The heart wants a trail away from alone
Dm F G
So the heart turns a sale into a well-worn milestone
[Verse 2]
C Em
The heart wants soft furniture, fought-for fast food
Am F
Defended end table that holds paperbacks and back U.S. News
Dm G
The mind turns an itch into a bruise
Dm F G
And the hands start to twitch and theyre feeling ill-used
[Verse 3]
C Em
But you're almost back now, you can see by the signs
Am F
From the bank you tell the temperature and then the time, and the billboard reads some headlines
Dm G
The head wants to turn, to avert both its eyes
Dm F G
But the mind wants to learn of some truth that might be inside reported crimes
[Verse 4]
C Em
So they found a lieutenant who killed a village of kids
Am F
After finishing off the wives, he wiped off his knife and that's what he did
Dm G
And they're not claiming that theres any excusing it
Dm F G
That was thirty years back, and they just get paid for the facts the way they got them in
[Verse 5]
C Em
Now hes rising and not denying. His hands are shaking, but hes not crying
Am F
And hes saying how did I climb out of a life so boring into that moment?
G C Em
Please stop ignoring the heart inside, oh you readers at home!
Am F
While you gasp at my bloody crimes, please take the time to make your heart my home
Dm G
Where I'm forgiven by time, where I'm cushioned by hope
Dm F G
Where I'm numbed by long drives, where I'm talked off or doped
[Verse 6]
C Em
Does the heart want to atone? Oh, I believe that its so
Am F
Because if I could climb back through time, I'd restore their lives and then give back my own
Dm G
Ten times now its size on a far distant road
Dm F G
In a far distant time where every night I'm still crying, entirely alone
[Verse 7]
F G Am
But the news today always fades away as you drive by
F C G
Until at dinnertime when you look into her eyes
F G C Am
Lit by evening sun - that, as usual, comes from above that straight, unbroken line
F G F G C G Am
The horizon - its rising seems a gi-ven
F G
Just like your li-ving
[Verse 8]
C Em
Your hearts warm and kind. Your mind is your own
Am F
So our blood-spattered criminal is inscrutable; dont worry, he wont
Dm G
Rise up behind your eyes and take wild control
Dm F G
Say "hes not of this time, he fell out of a hole"
[Outro]
C Em Am F G C
C Em
The heart wants to feel. The heart wants to hold
Am F
The heart takes past Subway, past Stop and Shop, past Beal's, and calls it coming home
Dm G
The heart wants a trail away from alone
Dm F G
So the heart turns a sale into a well-worn milestone
[Verse 2]
C Em
The heart wants soft furniture, fought-for fast food
Am F
Defended end table that holds paperbacks and back U.S. News
Dm G
The mind turns an itch into a bruise
Dm F G
And the hands start to twitch and theyre feeling ill-used
[Verse 3]
C Em
But you're almost back now, you can see by the signs
Am F
From the bank you tell the temperature and then the time, and the billboard reads some headlines
Dm G
The head wants to turn, to avert both its eyes
Dm F G
But the mind wants to learn of some truth that might be inside reported crimes
[Verse 4]
C Em
So they found a lieutenant who killed a village of kids
Am F
After finishing off the wives, he wiped off his knife and that's what he did
Dm G
And they're not claiming that theres any excusing it
Dm F G
That was thirty years back, and they just get paid for the facts the way they got them in
[Verse 5]
C Em
Now hes rising and not denying. His hands are shaking, but hes not crying
Am F
And hes saying how did I climb out of a life so boring into that moment?
G C Em
Please stop ignoring the heart inside, oh you readers at home!
Am F
While you gasp at my bloody crimes, please take the time to make your heart my home
Dm G
Where I'm forgiven by time, where I'm cushioned by hope
Dm F G
Where I'm numbed by long drives, where I'm talked off or doped
[Verse 6]
C Em
Does the heart want to atone? Oh, I believe that its so
Am F
Because if I could climb back through time, I'd restore their lives and then give back my own
Dm G
Ten times now its size on a far distant road
Dm F G
In a far distant time where every night I'm still crying, entirely alone
[Verse 7]
F G Am
But the news today always fades away as you drive by
F C G
Until at dinnertime when you look into her eyes
F G C Am
Lit by evening sun - that, as usual, comes from above that straight, unbroken line
F G F G C G Am
The horizon - its rising seems a gi-ven
F G
Just like your li-ving
[Verse 8]
C Em
Your hearts warm and kind. Your mind is your own
Am F
So our blood-spattered criminal is inscrutable; dont worry, he wont
Dm G
Rise up behind your eyes and take wild control
Dm F G
Say "hes not of this time, he fell out of a hole"
[Outro]
C Em Am F G C
Old Man Luedecke
Old Man Markley
Oldelaf
Oldelaf Et Monsi (...)
Oldporch