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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A Hand to Take Hold of the Scene - Okkervil River
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Tabbed by: A. Maheu
Tuning: Standard
/ / = 1 measure
/ Ebm /... / = 2 measures of Ebm
*Intro*
/Ebm / ... / ... / ...
*Verse 1*
/Ebm / ... /Db / ...
I'm a band in a show about a man holding hands with his wife
/Ebm / ... / ...
on a therapist's couch, with his face to the ground (after fucking around
/Db / ...
countless nights)
/B / ... /Db / ...
and, in this one episode, close-up cameras are showing him crying,
/Abm /B /Db
his red head and his red eyes.
*Verse 2*
/Ebm / ... /Db / ...
I'm a band in a show about a boy being buried alive,
/Ebm / ... / ...
from his head to his toes, by a criminal (but with a sensitive soul!) with
/Db / ...
a set of raccoon eyes,
/B / ...
and there's this scene in the show when a hustler knows
/Db / ...
he's gonna die.
/Abm /B /Db
The ground opens and he climbs inside.
*Chorus*
/Gb /Db /Abm
And as he speaks his last line, a thought falls from his mind and I pick it
/B /Db / ...
up right through the TV:
/Abm / ... /B /... /Db
Oh oh Is there a hand to take hold of the scene?
*Post-Chorus*
/Gb / ... /Abm / ... /Db / ... /B / ...
*Verse 3*
/Ebm / ... /Db / ...
I'm a man in a dream and there, dancing in front of my eyes,
/Ebm / ... / ...
is a queen - formed out of flaws, with her eyes all gone odd and a rod
/Db / ...
bolted into her spine.
/B / ... / ...
She rises up like a yawn. She grips my heart like a claw. She splits apart
/Db / ...
like a jaw, like an eye.
/Abm /B /Db
And she asks me with a sigh,
*Chorus*
/Gb /Db /Abm
When we're so far from right, when we're losing the fight, when we're
/B /Db / ...
letting the light weaken its beam -
/Abm / ... /B /... /Db
Oh oh Is there a hand to take hold of the scene?
*Post-Chorus*
/Gb / ... /Abm / ... /Db / ... /B / ...
/Gb / ... /Abm / ... /
I want a smile like a glistening shard. I want a kiss that's as sharp as a
Db / ... /B / ...
knife. The day expires, and the
/Gb / ... /Abm / ... /Db / ...
dry, cracked, trembling lips God saw fit to put this kiss inside, I
/B /Gb
lift them up to you.
/Abm /Db
I'd like to bear witness to a
*Verse 4*
/Ebm / ... /Db / ...
light that is fine and is filling the cryingest eyes,
/Ebm / ...
grace in each face that is making the wastedest,
/ ... /Db / ...
brokenest ones fairly fly,
/B / ... /Db /...
love that is innocent of that old cynical, covetous, cancerous vibe,
/Abm /B /Db
and a beauty that annihilates all
*Chorus*
/Gb /Db /Abm
life like it's lived in these nights, holding your hatred tight like a sign
/B
that you're right or you're strong.
/Gb /Db /Abm
When your doors are shut tight, I will dream you tonight, and my dream will
/B
just sweep you along.
/Gb /Db /Abm
When all fires are fanned, when we're shucking our plans, when we're too
/B /Db / ...
weak to stand on our two feet
/Abm / ... /B /... /Db
Oh oh Is there a hand to take hold of the scene?
/B / ... / ... / ... / ... / ... /
Ends on a B
A Hand to Take Hold of the Scene - Okkervil River
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Tabbed by: A. Maheu
Tuning: Standard
/ / = 1 measure
/ Ebm /... / = 2 measures of Ebm
*Intro*
/Ebm / ... / ... / ...
*Verse 1*
/Ebm / ... /Db / ...
I'm a band in a show about a man holding hands with his wife
/Ebm / ... / ...
on a therapist's couch, with his face to the ground (after fucking around
/Db / ...
countless nights)
/B / ... /Db / ...
and, in this one episode, close-up cameras are showing him crying,
/Abm /B /Db
his red head and his red eyes.
*Verse 2*
/Ebm / ... /Db / ...
I'm a band in a show about a boy being buried alive,
/Ebm / ... / ...
from his head to his toes, by a criminal (but with a sensitive soul!) with
/Db / ...
a set of raccoon eyes,
/B / ...
and there's this scene in the show when a hustler knows
/Db / ...
he's gonna die.
/Abm /B /Db
The ground opens and he climbs inside.
*Chorus*
/Gb /Db /Abm
And as he speaks his last line, a thought falls from his mind and I pick it
/B /Db / ...
up right through the TV:
/Abm / ... /B /... /Db
Oh oh Is there a hand to take hold of the scene?
*Post-Chorus*
/Gb / ... /Abm / ... /Db / ... /B / ...
*Verse 3*
/Ebm / ... /Db / ...
I'm a man in a dream and there, dancing in front of my eyes,
/Ebm / ... / ...
is a queen - formed out of flaws, with her eyes all gone odd and a rod
/Db / ...
bolted into her spine.
/B / ... / ...
She rises up like a yawn. She grips my heart like a claw. She splits apart
/Db / ...
like a jaw, like an eye.
/Abm /B /Db
And she asks me with a sigh,
*Chorus*
/Gb /Db /Abm
When we're so far from right, when we're losing the fight, when we're
/B /Db / ...
letting the light weaken its beam -
/Abm / ... /B /... /Db
Oh oh Is there a hand to take hold of the scene?
*Post-Chorus*
/Gb / ... /Abm / ... /Db / ... /B / ...
/Gb / ... /Abm / ... /
I want a smile like a glistening shard. I want a kiss that's as sharp as a
Db / ... /B / ...
knife. The day expires, and the
/Gb / ... /Abm / ... /Db / ...
dry, cracked, trembling lips God saw fit to put this kiss inside, I
/B /Gb
lift them up to you.
/Abm /Db
I'd like to bear witness to a
*Verse 4*
/Ebm / ... /Db / ...
light that is fine and is filling the cryingest eyes,
/Ebm / ...
grace in each face that is making the wastedest,
/ ... /Db / ...
brokenest ones fairly fly,
/B / ... /Db /...
love that is innocent of that old cynical, covetous, cancerous vibe,
/Abm /B /Db
and a beauty that annihilates all
*Chorus*
/Gb /Db /Abm
life like it's lived in these nights, holding your hatred tight like a sign
/B
that you're right or you're strong.
/Gb /Db /Abm
When your doors are shut tight, I will dream you tonight, and my dream will
/B
just sweep you along.
/Gb /Db /Abm
When all fires are fanned, when we're shucking our plans, when we're too
/B /Db / ...
weak to stand on our two feet
/Abm / ... /B /... /Db
Oh oh Is there a hand to take hold of the scene?
/B / ... / ... / ... / ... / ... /
Ends on a B
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