The Valley

Song The Valley
Artist Okkervil River
Album I Am Very Far

Lyrics

[00:19.12] Watch the sun switching in the sky, off and on,
[00:22.50] where our friend stands bleeding on the late summer lawn,
[00:26.67] a slicked back bloody black gunshot to the head.
[00:30.99] He has fallen in the valley of the rock and roll dead.
[00:34.00]
[00:44.41] I hear a breeze, it wheezes through the tips of the pines,
[00:48.53] where there's laughter and there's screaming to the rafters in the night.
[00:52.91] The moon rolls dreaming through the late spring sky,
[00:57.85] where our friend lies bleeding through his jacket and his tie.
[01:02.06] A slit throat makes a note like a raw winter wind.
[01:05.95] We were piled at the river with the rock and roll skinned.
[01:10.33] Times ten.
[01:12.39]
[01:30.07] Like the water loves lapping at the skin of the shore,
[01:32.35] hear our friend come tapping at the latches on the door.
[01:36.54] Like a foot slips, slapping on the ladder's last rung,
[01:40.74] we were thrashing in the clatter of the rock and roll hung.
[01:45.26] Minus one.
[01:48.50]
[02:12.01] It's just a loud crowd crush.
[02:13.57] It's just a thrush, seen flying through the late autumn dusk
[02:18.54] just for the very last time.
[02:20.31] It's just a busted-up body in the dust of the last road
[02:25.14] out of the city, when the city explodes.
[02:28.83] Light grows, and the light grows bright, and red-tinged.
[02:33.26] We were fallen on the border with the rock and roll singed.
[02:37.69] Times ten.
[02:42.14] Times ten.
[02:54.83] Times ten.
[02:55.83]
[02:56.64] Ten again, then another ten million
[02:59.89] Fallen in the valley of the rock and roll dead.
[03:03.70] Times ten.
[03:05.08] Ten again, then another ten million
[03:08.51] Fallen in the valley of the rock and roll dead.
[03:12.76] Times ten.
[03:13.64] Ten again, then another ten million
[03:16.95] Fallen in the valley of the rock and roll dead.
[03:21.02] Times ten.
[03:22.08] Ten again, then another ten million
[03:25.83] Fallen in the valley of the rock and roll dead.
[03:30.35] Times ten.
[03:30.97] Ten again, then another ten million
[03:34.42] Fallen in the valley of the rock and roll dead.