Okkervil River - Okkervil river r.i.p.

^GHey, my little baby, pointing ^Dat the sky's amazing in the ^Am7lake now. ^GAll of this sensation and no ^Dspace on earth to place it where it's ^Am7safe now. You've got a ^Cbig day coming. A ^C/Bbig day coming ^Am7now.

^GGather, crowd, around me, in the ^Dgutter where you found me. Help me ^Am7stand now. My ^Gbody, it is aching, and my ^Dpoor old heart is breaking, and I'm ^Am7so freaked out. We've got a ^Cbig chance coming. A ^C/Bbig chance coming ^Am7now.

^GAll the little Sadies and the ^Dliterary ladies wish me ^Am7well now. A ^Gslob upon a plane that through the ^Dair is silver swaying into ^Am7sun now. I ^Ghightail my cool haircut through the ^Dturnstiles of the airport on the ^Am7run now Flip a ^Gcouple hundred pages; I was ^Dturning thirty-eight. I was a ^Am7horrible sight. You've got a ^Cbad day coming. A ^C/Bsad day coming ^Am7'round. I'll wear a ^Cwhite suit and black sun^C/Bglasses to the last mass ^Am7now.

N.C.

Okay.

Then give me ^Cone last kiss in your ^C/Bpink silk dress, I ^Am7guess. Said, "I have ^Clost all will to," with my ^C/Bface pressed against your ^Am7breast. And I have ^Cpilfered the king's pills ^C/BFrom the palace medicine ^Am7chest. I cried a ^Cquart of crocodile tears o^C/Bnto Allison Anne's pink cham^Am7pagne glass. I was ^Cescorted from the premi^C/Bses for being a ^Am7mess.

And it's ^Gjust like when John Howe ^Dtold me how the Force MDs ^Am7died. G D Am7 Lou Gehrig's disease laid T.C.D. low. Mercury had a heart attack back in '95. And where ^CDJ Doctor ^C/BRock went nobody ^Am7knows.

I see my ^Ggrandfather, T. Holmes "Bud" ^DMoore laid up in his hospital ^Am7clothes. But I think about ^GJudee Sill dying in some trailer ^Dpark, out of cocaine and codeine all ^Am7alone. It was a ^Cbig waste, brother. Such a ^C/Bbig waste. Yeah, I ^Am7know. They had some ^Cgreat songs; must have been a ^C/Bgreat time, so long ^Am7ago. But I ^Cdidn't open up my ^C/Bmouth just to piss and ^Am7moan.

N.C.

No way.

^GAll the air is glitter and I ^Dwent and hit the skating rink ^Am7alone now. I'll ^Gwatch the kids all skim across the ^Dice. They look so nice. It was so ^Am7cold out. And then I ^Ccoughed into my cupped ^C/Bhands across the rink so I could ^Am7hear the band.

^GTwo guitars, a drummer, a chick ^Dsinger with a Kurzweil on a ^Am7keyboard stand. And I said, "^CPlay that cover," I said, "^C/BPlay that cover song ^Am7again."