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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G
Hot breath, rough skin
Cadd9
warm laughs, and smiling,
Em
the lovliest words
D
whispered and meant
Cadd9
you like all these things.
D
But though you like all these things
G
you love a stone.
Cadd9
You love a stone,
D Am
because it's smooth and it's cold.
Em
And you'd love most
D
to be told
Cadd9
that it's all your own.
G
You love white veins,
D
you love hard grey,
Am
the heaviest weight,
Cadd9
the clumsiest shape,
Em
the earthiest smell,
D
the hollowest tone
Cadd9
you love a stone.
Bridge: G D Am Cadd9
G
And I'm found too fast,
called too fond of flames,
Cadd9
and then I'm phoning my friends,
and then I'm shouldering the blame,
Em
while you're picking pebbles
D
out of the drain,
Cadd9
miles ago.
G
You're out singing songs,
and I'm down shouting names
Cadd9
at the flickerless screen,
going fucking insane.
Em
Am I losing my cool,
D
overstating my case?
Cadd9
Well, baby what can I say?
D
You know I never claimed
G
that I was a stone.
Cadd9
And you love a stone.
G
You love white veins,
D
you love hard grey,
Am
the heaviest weight,
Cadd9
the clumsiest shape,
Em
the earthiest smell,
D
the hollowest tone
Cadd9
you love a stone.
Bridge: G D Am Cadd9 (x2) G
Cadd9
You love a stone,
D
because it's dark
Am
and it's old
Em
and if it could start
D
being alive
Cadd9
you'd stop living alone.
(quieter, don't strum as much)
G
And I think I believe
D
that if stones could dream
Am
they'd dream of being laid
Cadd9
side-by-side piece-by-piece
Em
and turned into a castle
D
for some towering queen
Cadd9
they're unable to know.
G
And when that queen's daughter
D
came of age,
Am
I think she'd be lovely
Cadd9
and stubborn and brave,
Em
and suitors would journey
D
from kingdoms away
Cadd9
just to make themselves known.
G
And I think that I know
D
the bitter dismay
Am
of a lover who brought
Cadd9
fresh brouquets every day
Em
when she turned him away
D
to remember some knave
Cadd9
who once gave just one rose, one day, years ago.
The end:
G D Am Cadd9 X4
G
Old Man Luedecke
Old Man Markley
Oldelaf
Oldelaf Et Monsi (...)
Oldporch