Pink-Slips

Song Pink-Slips
Artist Okkervil River
Album The Silver Gymnasium

Lyrics

[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 "

Pinyin

[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 "