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Okkervil River - Your Past Life As a Blast |
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Your life, back in a banner year. |
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A blast of light, a brace of cheers. |
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A house of wild accolades |
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Evaporating on an August night |
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I'm looking out into the sound, |
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I'm breathing deep, I'm turning around. |
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I'm saying, |
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'Do you want to swim out to that island?' |
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I'm thinking, |
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Touch my wrist - it's shaking |
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Just like someday baby when we're older. |
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I'm wishing |
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Cash will be inside our kisses, |
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Someday, maybe, baby when I'm gold. |
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Your hair is thin and light |
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As a white forest fire in summertime. |
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Your throat, where it's exposed, looks like a crime, |
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I'll sneak-up slow and whisper quiet. |
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Your pretty face looks like an island |
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Rising from a sea that's slowly drying. |
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When I'm saying, |
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'Do you want to sail out in the silence?' |
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I'm asking, |
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'Will you come over here and do me violence?' |
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Press your ear up to my wrist |
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The blood is racing some way, going wherever, |
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I'm saying, |
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'Will you stand up tall and be my shelter?' |
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How will we go, what do you think? |
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Into the dust? Into the drink? |
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You slipped your fears into my head, |
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Some midnight freeway ride along with Jennifer. |
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Hotels, jails, hospital details. |
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The highway hugs the water. |
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I had to cross a field of screaming fire |
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To see the moonlight on the river. |
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I'm saying, |
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'Do you want to come and make me shiver?' |
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I'm thinking, |
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Squeeze my arm and feel it pull away like |
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Someday, baby, when we differ. |
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I'll tell you what I didn't say. |
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I'll tell you about the way I really miss him. |
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You tell them what you want to tell them. |
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Tell them about the way you really loved her. |
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And we'll shake it, shake it, |
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Shake it off, and take another, |
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Cause no one, no one |
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Is gonna stop me |
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From loving my brother, |
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Cause no one, no one |
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Is gonna stop me |
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From loving my brother, |
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No one, no one |
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Is gonna stop me |
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From loving my brother, |
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No one, no one |
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Is gonna stop me |
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From loving my brother, |
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No one, no one |
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Is gonna stop me |
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From loving my brother, |
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Not even my brother. |
