The President's Dead (Master)-Okkervil River

[ti:The President''s Dead (Master)] [ar:Okkervil River] [al:The President's Dead (Single)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:01.54]The President's dead the radio said [00:04.24]Dear friends is it not so horrible [00:06.93] [00:07.81]A shock through my heart like a knife right through bread [00:10.94]The newspaper said The President's dead [00:14.06]The sea doesn't dry and the sky isn't split [00:17.18]But friends it just seems so wrong don't it [00:20.06] [00:20.62]A shout from the crowd and a shot in the head [00:23.75]The President's lying on the tarmac dead [00:26.87]He's lying face down with those black-dressed agents [00:29.81]Guns drawn running around and the early obits [00:32.93]Say he was a good man you can't argue with that [00:36.25]Not today you can't not now you can't [00:39.56]In the media tent where they spin and they slant [00:42.56]They just foam at the mouth and they champ at the bit [00:45.75]Those bloodsuckers can wait tell those vultures cool it [00:49.06]The newscaster said The President's dead [00:52.31]And let's imagine the way let's say thirty years in [00:55.44]How somebody will say What were you doing when [00:58.57]On a beautiful day I was waking up and [01:01.88]I was lying in bed with my girlfriend [01:05.13]And the eggs on the plate and the bacon hissing [01:08.13]And the coffee was great [01:09.69]There was spring on the wind [01:11.57]If you ever lived through a day where the littlest things [01:14.51]In the littlest ways made you feel you were blessed [01:18.13]And if you died right then well you know you'd be missed [01:21.13]But there's no better state to cease to exist [01:24.26]And you wouldn't feel sad and you wouldn't resist [01:27.44]Cause you knew what you'd had and were thankful for it [01:30.82]In your own little way I'm a small quiet man [01:34.07]I've got no wars to win I don't have a big plan [01:37.26]But I love my new place and I love my old friends [01:40.57]And I scrimp and I save and one day I'll have kids [01:43.74]I can truthfully say that my day was like that [01:46.87]Til the radio playing on the stand by the bed [01:50.06]Fired out this report and in three words they said [01:53.25]Like three shots to my head The President's dead oh The President's dead [02:05.23]The President's dead the President's dead [02:11.55] [02:14.36]The President's dead