For The Captain Lyrics - Singles - Okkervil River

Relax, no song is written 

It's nothing you thought of yourself 

It's just a ghost, came unbidden 

To this house 

This infection gets stronger every year 

This seed in the water of your tear 

There's no escaping it 

This seed in the water of your tear 

the way an unborn baby's ear 

Unfolds in your belly 

This infection gets stronger every year 

This direction of a tear rolling down your cheek 

And there's no escaping it 

There's no escaping 

The thing that is making 

Its home in your radio 

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Bless this tiny alley 

We have fallen from tall buildings 

We have fallen 

Bless the birth of him 

The chapel he was killed in 

All your tiny flowers 

They have sat under the sidewalk 

They have waited for the pieces 

Of the summer sun to show us 

All that is your beauty 

All and all that is your treasure 

I could smell your skin beside me 

Say I hope I'm here forever 

Oh but captain with your lovers 

With your list of sacred pillows 

With your sacred list of children 

And the wall where you drew windows 

Overlooking tiny gardens 

Cut in half by jagged mountains 

And the secret sacred sharing 

That went on beside the fountain 

Where the water waits forever 

For a tiny, tiny treasure 

That will rise up and recover 

That will leave this tiny alley 

When you meet me in the garden 

With your wings all dipped in cedar 

All those spirits brushing past me 

Brushing past me in the ether 

Say all this is window dressing 

All you are is tiny curtains 

They will flame, they will flame up 

You won't know that you are BURNING! 

BURNING! 

BURNING! 

BURNING! 

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