Okkervil River R.I.P.

Hey, my little baby

Pointin' at the sky's amazing

In the lake now

All of this sensation

And no space on Earth to place it

Where it's safe now

You've got a big day comin'

A big day comin' now

Gather, crowd around me

In the gutter where you found me

Help me stand now

My body, it is achin'

And my poor old heart is breakin'

And I'm so freaked out

We've got a big chance comin'

A big chance comin' now

All the little Sadies

And the literary ladies

Wish me well now

A slob upon a plane that

Through the air is silver swaying

Into sun now

I hightail my cool haircut

Through the turnstiles of the airport

On the run now

Flip a couple hundred pages

I was turnin' thirty-eight

I was a horrible sight

You've got a bad day comin'

Sad day comin' now

I wear a white suit and black sunglasses

To the last mass now

Okay

Then give me one last kiss

In your pink silk dress, I guess

Said "I have lost all will to"

With my face pressed against your breast

And I have pilfered the king's pills

From the palace medicine chest

I cried a quart of crocodile tears

Onto Allison Anne's pink champagne glass

I was escorted from the premises

For bein' a mess

And it's just like when John Howe told me

How the Force MD's died

Lou Gehrig's disease laid T.C.D. low

Mercury had a heart attack back in '95

And where DJ Doctor Rock went

Nobody knows

I see my grandfather, T. Holmes

"Bud" Moore laid up in his hospital clothes

But I think about Judee Sill

Dyin' in some trailer park, out of cocaine

And codeine, all alone

It was a big waste, brother

Such a big waste, yeah I know

They had some great songs

It must've been a great time

So long ago

But I didn't open up my mouth

Just to piss and moan

No way

All the air is glitter

And I went and hit the

Skating rink alone now

I'll watch the kids all skim across

The ice, they look so nice

It was so cold out

And then I coughed into my cupped hands

Across the rink so I could

Hear the band

Two guitars, a drummer

A chick singer with a Kurzweil

On a keyboard stand

And I said "Play that cover"

I said "Play that cover song again"