Rider-Okkervil River

[ti:Rider] [ar:Okkervil River] [al:Rider b/w I Guess We Lost] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Rider - Okkervil River [00:01.02]Baby's ball is all blood red of flayed pigs [00:05.82] [00:06.53]And silk soft little things [00:08.69] [00:09.85]Fill a house hung from strings [00:12.12] [00:13.32]And I fly out on my silver scissoring wings [00:19.13] [00:20.12]With the other sardines [00:23.39]Over cities of things mommies need [00:27.54] [00:30.39]Light as gas and half-assedly free [00:34.70] [00:37.20]Like I was in nineteen ninety three [00:42.42] [00:43.98]Over the ruins like we're staggering apes [00:48.37] [00:49.34]What we get's what we take [00:51.70] [00:52.64]In a split open place where a man can get kinged [00:58.49] [00:59.52]In a palace of panic and flames [01:03.82] [01:04.68]Where nobody gets blamed by the tired [01:10.11]And broke down and beat [01:13.18] [01:14.92]In sunken gardens where there was a street [01:20.57] [01:24.92]West over water I rambled and paced [01:29.51] [01:30.44]And the blood river raced like the sweat down my face [01:36.10] [01:37.29]And the stadium roared and the warriors embraced [01:43.54] [01:44.22]And the golden shore groaned beneath the weight of my tastes [01:50.89]And I blazed in the last orange hours of the day [01:59.06] [02:01.31]Until the dust hazed and hid us away [02:06.06] [02:08.19]Little baby be brave [02:10.63] [02:11.35]I see your dad riding over the rise [02:19.99] [02:22.07]Crashing his whole cavalcade through the crowd [02:26.75]Watch them run on all sides [02:36.81] [02:55.60]The neon white branches [02:57.22] [02:58.04]And the carrion fly [03:00.31] [03:01.25]On a congressman's eye [03:03.68] [03:04.66]I have wrapped up for you in some old autumn leaves [03:10.86] [03:11.60]And left under a rock out on rockaway beach beneath the trees [03:20.32] [03:21.92]I have laughed my best hiss to the whistling breeze [03:27.62] [03:28.77]There's a hole in my throat [03:31.29] [03:31.93]You can note my last wheeze if you need [03:36.20] [03:39.04]Then take hold of the rope [03:42.12]And down we scream [03:46.10]