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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[Intro]
C
[Verse]
F C Dm Bb
What a day we had… I figured I’d be feeling bad, but I don’t feel a thing.
Dm Bb C
They read from Mark and then bring us all up Shingle Camp Hill Road.
F C Dm Bb
Throwing flowers at the ground felt like hours, with the grown-ups whimpering.
Dm Bb Eb Bb
In the blown-out green of spring I see the whole small town explode.
[Chorus]
C Bb Dm Bb
And then driving to our house at night, the stars shoot out their shine behind the Olds windows.
Dm Bb Dm Bb C
My father quiet behind the wheel, I fully feel that he knows where he’s trying to go.
C Bb Dm Bb
And then they carry me inside, this other world behind my eyes, this bright-lit neon glow.
Dm Bb Dm Bb C
And then it’s morning everywhere, and summer air, and there’s the stereo.
[Interlude]
Eb Bb
[Verse]
F C Dm Bb
The Electric Company was playing when my mom left me five minutes on the couch,
Dm Bb C
and I was blue when she came out, and wasn't breathing.
F C Dm Bb
That Opel flew through town, all down 120, and around the Lebanon green, and out.
Dm Bb Eb Bb
I don't know what they were thinking about. I don't want to imagine it.
[Chorus]
C Bb Dm Bb
In came the doctor, wearing white. Carefully, he cut a circle in my throat
Dm Bb Dm Bb C
and took a little plastic tube and looped it through my lungs and sealed me closed.
C Bb Dm Bb
My parents were called into the room, with no idea what to do but frightened to say so.
Dm Bb Dm Bb C
They showed them how to clean it out, and showed them how to set me down, and sent me home.
[Verse]
F C Bb Dm Bb
1983 - the apparition came to me and spoke to me all night,
Dm Bb C
frozen inside my bed, bone-white, my brother fast asleep.
F C Bb Dm Bb
And, under surgery, a second time it came and showed me a house in outer space,
Dm Bb Dm Bb
another boy who had my face, a mom and dad who weren't the same...
Eb Bb
I woke up and my aunt gave me a book.
[Chorus]
C Bb Dm Bb
Show me the neatest place to hide, to crawl inside the silver gym. Don't tell a single other soul.
Dm Bb Dm Bb C
Beneath the bleachers is a lighter, and a sneaker, and a frozen sparrow.
C Bb Dm Bb
I broke into the church at night and pulled out all the stops and heard that organ overload,
Dm Bb Dm Bb C
and screamed, This giant clashy chord is for Our Lord. Up where he is. Up Where he goes.
[Outro]
C Dm Dsus4
Up that music floats,
C Dm
leaving family, friends and home down so small below.
Bb
And it's still there for all I know.
C
[Verse]
F C Dm Bb
What a day we had… I figured I’d be feeling bad, but I don’t feel a thing.
Dm Bb C
They read from Mark and then bring us all up Shingle Camp Hill Road.
F C Dm Bb
Throwing flowers at the ground felt like hours, with the grown-ups whimpering.
Dm Bb Eb Bb
In the blown-out green of spring I see the whole small town explode.
[Chorus]
C Bb Dm Bb
And then driving to our house at night, the stars shoot out their shine behind the Olds windows.
Dm Bb Dm Bb C
My father quiet behind the wheel, I fully feel that he knows where he’s trying to go.
C Bb Dm Bb
And then they carry me inside, this other world behind my eyes, this bright-lit neon glow.
Dm Bb Dm Bb C
And then it’s morning everywhere, and summer air, and there’s the stereo.
[Interlude]
Eb Bb
[Verse]
F C Dm Bb
The Electric Company was playing when my mom left me five minutes on the couch,
Dm Bb C
and I was blue when she came out, and wasn't breathing.
F C Dm Bb
That Opel flew through town, all down 120, and around the Lebanon green, and out.
Dm Bb Eb Bb
I don't know what they were thinking about. I don't want to imagine it.
[Chorus]
C Bb Dm Bb
In came the doctor, wearing white. Carefully, he cut a circle in my throat
Dm Bb Dm Bb C
and took a little plastic tube and looped it through my lungs and sealed me closed.
C Bb Dm Bb
My parents were called into the room, with no idea what to do but frightened to say so.
Dm Bb Dm Bb C
They showed them how to clean it out, and showed them how to set me down, and sent me home.
[Verse]
F C Bb Dm Bb
1983 - the apparition came to me and spoke to me all night,
Dm Bb C
frozen inside my bed, bone-white, my brother fast asleep.
F C Bb Dm Bb
And, under surgery, a second time it came and showed me a house in outer space,
Dm Bb Dm Bb
another boy who had my face, a mom and dad who weren't the same...
Eb Bb
I woke up and my aunt gave me a book.
[Chorus]
C Bb Dm Bb
Show me the neatest place to hide, to crawl inside the silver gym. Don't tell a single other soul.
Dm Bb Dm Bb C
Beneath the bleachers is a lighter, and a sneaker, and a frozen sparrow.
C Bb Dm Bb
I broke into the church at night and pulled out all the stops and heard that organ overload,
Dm Bb Dm Bb C
and screamed, This giant clashy chord is for Our Lord. Up where he is. Up Where he goes.
[Outro]
C Dm Dsus4
Up that music floats,
C Dm
leaving family, friends and home down so small below.
Bb
And it's still there for all I know.
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