Okkervil River - Black nemo

^GMeriden months stuck in ^CIndian ^Gsummers. And ^DDad's on the ^Gline, but I'm ^Dfine. Here's the ^Gphone... Oh, it's ^Gfloating away. It's going away on the tide. ^GCrystalized wishes, like ^Ckids crying for ^GChristmases, ^Dticking off ^Glists with their ^Dpens in their ^Gfists before ^Gfloating away, and going away on the tide.

Running away on the ^Dback of a beast, in a midnight charge down a ^Cbroken beach. The little stars, they ^Am7spin the sharpest shards of light on ^Gdown to the ^Dmouth of the sea. In a morning curled up ^Cin a cab on the edge of the world, the ^Am7light's a fire of gold lying ^Garound.

^GWhat, when you heard it - say, ^Cforward or ^Gfurtive, trans^Dferred through a ^Gperson or ^Dmystical ^Gblur - got you ^Ggoing away, got you floating away on the tide? Through ^GBonner Road basements of ^CPitfall, of ^Gcave-ins, of ^Dcrackling ^Gtapes, cross ^Dfades... When the ^Gsong ends I'm ^Ggoing away, floating away on the tide.

Finding your way ^Ddown the bloody beach, with the burnt-out cars salt-^Clicked by the sea, those slicked-out stars all ^Am7screaming from a distant high ^Gremove. In the ^Dfizzed-out snow of a cathode screen I saw a ^Cbroken ghost in an old soap scene. I let his ^Am7dead and dreamy eyes follow my ^Gmoves.

And ^GI had a vision of ^Ceverything ^Ghidden but ^Dalways ^Garound me. It ^Dfought me. It ^Gfound me while ^Ggoing away, floating away on the tide. ^GShooting through time with my ^Ceyes getting ^Gglassy and ^Dlined, while I ^Gwatch seasons ^Drocketing ^Gpast me. They're ^Ggoing away - a little more every day, all the time.

On a ^Dbalcony, at the brilliant sea where all ^Crivers meet, a voice spoke to me and said, These ^Am7things have just got to be. I don't know ^Gwhy.

^D Here's to the freeway flasher! ^C Here's to the desperate dasher. ^G Guard him. Keep him from crashing, on his ^Dtear. I know you think you miss him. ^C I know you think you knew him, ^G but you were passing through him. Light as ^Dair he's ^Gleaving. ^DThere... he's ^Ggone.