The Rise

Song The Rise
Artist Okkervil River
Album I Am Very Far

Lyrics

[00:21.40] All the riders on the rise
[00:25.72] And circlers from every side.
[00:30.86] All the riders on the rise
[00:36.44] And circlers from every side.
[00:40.38] Eyes up!
[00:45.50] Light floods around in a yellow shadow
[00:50.72] After night comes down
[00:54.22]
[00:57.64] I a ground-whirl fall
[01:00.58] Into a dull dumb swipe.
[01:02.26] And all's white.
[01:04.89] Fire painting on the pines,
[01:08.96] Hawks above the timber-line,
[01:12.14] Water weeping from the ice.
[01:14.65] Fire painting on the pines,
[01:19.36] Water weeping from the ice.
[01:25.24] Heat is lost.
[01:28.42] Winter rocks into a lonely boxwood grove.
[01:33.86] And quiet snowfall smothers all of the lawns
[01:42.92]
[01:43.67] Where the ladies coughed and cried,
[01:48.01] "I don't want to be there when it's time!"
[02:00.40]
[02:24.96] The dying stag is on his side.
[02:27.47] The hunters are hiding, up on high.
[02:30.46] The wind is beating through the briars.
[02:31.96] The dying stag is on his side.
[02:32.90] The hunters are hiding, up on high.
[02:33.97] The wind is beating through the briars.
[02:36.04] Waves on the graves of the saints.
[02:41.10] Dull grey as the sea pushes land away.
[02:47.16]
[02:51.65] Dull ache when you wake.
[02:57.10] Grey smoke shows the way you walk
[02:59.16] Down by when it's time.
[03:02.91] I don't want to be there
[03:08.35] When it's time to go down,
[03:15.74]
[03:16.63] Down, I don't want to go
[03:19.99] Down there alone.
[03:23.30]
[03:27.08] Down, down, I don't want to go
[03:35.63]
[03:49.71] Down there alone.