Song | Pink-Slips |
Artist | Okkervil River |
Album | The Silver Gymnasium |
[00:12.60] | Three brides before breakfast |
[00:15.49] | These rails just wrecked us |
[00:18.12] | My right hand on my heart |
[00:19.83] | While my left hand snaps your necklace |
[00:24.39] | Each day gets a little more scary |
[00:26.81] | We're holding on in a way |
[00:28.87] | But just barely |
[00:29.86] | Moms and Dads are rationing their cash |
[00:32.94] | For the commissary |
[00:35.54] | But I can't start without going |
[00:39.92] | All the way - it's a habit someone gave me |
[00:47.62] | The nursemaid of the blank page |
[00:49.83] | A canary of the American eclipse |
[00:52.75] | A profiteer picking up pink slips |
[00:57.05] | |
[01:08.11] | This wish just to go back hey |
[01:10.86] | When I know wasn't ever ever happy |
[01:13.45] | Show me my best memory - it's probably super crappy |
[01:19.74] | Nine years down in Texas with sluts of both sexes |
[01:25.34] | Liars lumps and drug addicts and drunks; |
[01:29.13] | I love my friends |
[01:30.84] | But I can't stop without going all the way a |
[01:39.48] | Nd I've been that way since '83 |
[01:42.48] | The midwife of the jetlife |
[01:45.71] | Oh genie with a golden spliff |
[01:48.34] | A prostitute paid in pink slips |
[01:54.15] | |
[01:57.46] | I crashed my Cadillac in the valley of mirrors |
[02:00.34] | When the call came there was nobody here |
[02:03.04] | When they came from the communists |
[02:04.67] | I kissed them on the lips |
[02:06.00] | Then they came for the singers |
[02:07.56] | In a haze of pink slips |
[02:13.84] | |
[02:26.30] | I guess I was just dreaming and drifting |
[02:30.22] | I guess I was artificially lifted |
[02:32.38] | Only happy until the age of ten is still a gift |
[02:37.96] | But we can't go back to those "227" days |
[02:46.24] | It's just a dream we all were having |
[02:49.95] | Hey mariner in the dirt trade Oh |
[02:53.26] | Postman of the post-apocalypse - from Academy Awards to pink slips |
[03:00.18] | |
[03:03.25] | And I showered my Corvette with Mo毛t for years |
[03:06.00] | But now I'm standing in the rain |
[03:07.27] | Drinking the champagne of beers |
[03:08.66] | They say "Who's that shadow sneaking off behind the pier |
[03:12.17] | He was rushed and then he was rattled |
[03:13.54] | But now he's finally in the clear |
[03:15.17] | To be a refugee from the rat race |
[03:17.46] | In his white tuxedo and his sad-face |
[03:20.93] | A music group that your dad plays |
[03:23.74] | Singing songs about autumn days |
[03:26.82] | He's the laureate of the Granite State |
[03:29.20] | And now he doesn't even write |
[03:30.43] | He just riffs |
[03:31.94] | And they'll cover up his coffin with pink slips " |
[00:12.60] | Three brides before breakfast |
[00:15.49] | These rails just wrecked us |
[00:18.12] | My right hand on my heart |
[00:19.83] | While my left hand snaps your necklace |
[00:24.39] | Each day gets a little more scary |
[00:26.81] | We apos re holding on in a way |
[00:28.87] | But just barely |
[00:29.86] | Moms and Dads are rationing their cash |
[00:32.94] | For the commissary |
[00:35.54] | But I can apos t start without going |
[00:39.92] | All the way it apos s a habit someone gave me |
[00:47.62] | The nursemaid of the blank page |
[00:49.83] | A canary of the American eclipse |
[00:52.75] | A profiteer picking up pink slips |
[00:57.05] | |
[01:08.11] | This wish just to go back hey |
[01:10.86] | When I know wasn apos t ever ever happy |
[01:13.45] | Show me my best memory it apos s probably super crappy |
[01:19.74] | Nine years down in Texas with sluts of both sexes |
[01:25.34] | Liars lumps and drug addicts and drunks |
[01:29.13] | I love my friends |
[01:30.84] | But I can apos t stop without going all the way a |
[01:39.48] | Nd I apos ve been that way since apos 83 |
[01:42.48] | The midwife of the jetlife |
[01:45.71] | Oh genie with a golden spliff |
[01:48.34] | A prostitute paid in pink slips |
[01:54.15] | |
[01:57.46] | I crashed my Cadillac in the valley of mirrors |
[02:00.34] | When the call came there was nobody here |
[02:03.04] | When they came from the communists |
[02:04.67] | I kissed them on the lips |
[02:06.00] | Then they came for the singers |
[02:07.56] | In a haze of pink slips |
[02:13.84] | |
[02:26.30] | I guess I was just dreaming and drifting |
[02:30.22] | I guess I was artificially lifted |
[02:32.38] | Only happy until the age of ten is still a gift |
[02:37.96] | But we can apos t go back to those " 227" days |
[02:46.24] | It apos s just a dream we all were having |
[02:49.95] | Hey mariner in the dirt trade Oh |
[02:53.26] | Postman of the postapocalypse from Academy Awards to pink slips |
[03:00.18] | |
[03:03.25] | And I showered my Corvette with Mo máo t for years |
[03:06.00] | But now I apos m standing in the rain |
[03:07.27] | Drinking the champagne of beers |
[03:08.66] | They say " Who apos s that shadow sneaking off behind the pier |
[03:12.17] | He was rushed and then he was rattled |
[03:13.54] | But now he apos s finally in the clear |
[03:15.17] | To be a refugee from the rat race |
[03:17.46] | In his white tuxedo and his sadface |
[03:20.93] | A music group that your dad plays |
[03:23.74] | Singing songs about autumn days |
[03:26.82] | He apos s the laureate of the Granite State |
[03:29.20] | And now he doesn apos t even write |
[03:30.43] | He just riffs |
[03:31.94] | And they apos ll cover up his coffin with pink slips " |