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Okkervil River
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Lay of the Last Survivor
She went out and found her father Face down on the ground Out in the cold. Walked her way around a hill With the sun sinking Down into the snow.
All the whitecaps of the waves Slap like last hand-claps, And the dark water dies in a crash, Is sucked back with a moan.
The smoke on the coast Oh, piled fathers, Soft, sighing daughters, Where does it go?
It's a dream, now, I'll describe Let your mind drift on down, like so, To when the world was young. A big sky, blue of a dead bachelor's tongue. A new bloom on the rose.
So some line someone told says Even light can get old. Oh, slobbering lovers, Drink-clinking brothers, Find more lyrics at ※ Mojim.com They don't have to tell us, because we know.
What a way down. What a ride. What a slide spin-around. What a life to have known. What a time, and how I was singing out In a crowd of the thousand Most frightening faces I've known
When the lighthouse Lending us sight finally went out, What a fright we felt In that night, friends Just shout it out, All the whys and don't knows, All the cries in our throats, And how right we felt, With our eyes tightly closed, Holding something we broke
And then, whimpering sisters, Sobbing well wishers, Well it's over. Just let my hand go.
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