Down Down The Deep River Lyrics - The Silver Gymnasium - Okkervil River

Spit into the center of your hometown 

There's leaves in the street 

And there are friends around you now 

All the days of your life in a line 

Or the way they seemed by '89 

But it's not alright 

It's not even close to alright 

Down a hall of your house, down a road in December 

(Down, down, down the deep river, down, down, down the deep river) 

Down a hall of your house, down a road in December 

(Down, down, down the deep river, down, down, down the deep river) 

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We lie awake at night in a tent 

And I say, "Tell me about your uncle and his friend 

'Cause they seem like very bad men 

Well, we want to keep away from them!" 

Bend in the road back there 

We saw the place they go 

"Tell me about the greatest show 

Or the greatest movie you know 

Or the greatest song that you taped from off the radio 

You gonna play it again and again 

It cuts off at the ending, though 

Tell me I'm always going to be your best friend 

Now, you said it one time, why don't you say it again? 

All the way down the line to where the telephone ends 

Come on and shout it on down the wire 

And it's not alright, not even close to alright" 

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Down a hall of your house, down a road in December 

(Down, down, down the deep river, down, down, down the deep river) 

Down a hall of your house, down a road in December 

(Down, down, down the deep river, down, down, down the deep river) 

And as the rescue party, the volunteer team 

Ah, they're just kids of eighteen 

And it's the worst thing they've seen 

As they're all standing around that tree 

And I'm so sorry, and I can't stop crying 

Oh, I know 

Shivering from the late fall cold 

I felt like a solid ghost 

I ran, and then I couldn't slow 

My father found me though 

My father took me home 

He said, "Oh, son, I saw you get knocked down and I ran out 

I bet your head was spinning 

With that bright pain you're stunned 

When you've only just begun to be only just beginning 

Tossed in the viper pit 

All those feelings and fears 

And all the difficult shit in all those tender years 

There was something in the air 

Something gathered in the air 

Something singing in the wind 

Oh, I'll be your fighter and you'll be my mirror 

And you'll be all right because I'll be right here 

Oh, kid, now I'm not going anywhere 

I swear I'll try to not be going anywhere 

Though it's not alright 

It's so far from all right 

We'll make it into a choice somehow 

I don't know, but you'll have a choice somehow. 

"Down a hall in your house, down a road in December 

(Down, down, down the deep river, down, down, down the deep river) 

We can never go back; we can only remember 

(Down, down, down the deep river, down, down, down the deep river) 

"Maybe they told you about the summer sky 

And maybe they said there's a great gold spirit in the summer sky 

All your friends 

All your best, best friends 

Are going to gather around your bed at night 

Well that don't make it alright 

Because it is still so far from alright 

Oh, kid, I know" 

Down a hall in your house, down a road in December 

Up the stairs, four flights up, can you feel my heart shiver? 

Walking in the dawn, with that dream getting dimmer and dimmer 

I said, are we going down, are we going down, are we going down the deep river 

Oh, down the deep river 

Down, down, down, down, down the deep river, down, down the deep river 

Why don't you, why don't you, oh, say you still see it 

Say, say you remember 

Are we going down, are we going down, are we going down, are we going down, are we going down 

Hey, hey, hey 

Are we going down, are we going down, are we going down, are we going down, down, down the deep river 

I know it's scary, baby