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Okkervil River
Okkervil River

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Key: B major
Verse 1
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It's all I'm looking for
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These moments of opaque-
eyed knocked- out rapture
Helpless as a cow for the capture
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Chosen in a frozen instant
Verse 2
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Far away from the scabbed- out moment
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Far from the flick- flick-
flick of the flatscreen
Far from the poison power of cash
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Green cash reeking and heating
the jetstream
Verse 3
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Oh, the shop- sweet breath,
she is my daughter
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C
Daughter of the flashing instant
Daughter of watching "Daughters
of Darkness"
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On your parents' couch with your
high- school boyfriend
Verse 4
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Spinning fevered in a hazy ditch
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C
We daughters of long hard skids
on the 10- speed
Daughters of July rips of the land speed
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Semi- freckled eternal thrasher
Verse 5
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Feather- haloed floating
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C
hair eye- flasher
Floating like a fire in the distance
Flashing like a flush to the skin
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And whispering like the wind
through the rushes
Verse 6
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Gm
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Oh no, external actor
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External actor
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Verse 7
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You gotta hoist the high flag
You gotta learn how to hang
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with the freaks and the hicks
And the heat of the lot
You gotta learn what is
and what is not
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And you learn what isn't is not a lot
Verse 8
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To drain a tin beer Streaming
cold in the fields
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Sun is up and the heat is relentless
Dropping the rainbow rain on the canvas
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Calls her friends in the capital
of cannabis
Verse 9
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Where the cops down the block
And they circle and they stop
And they circle and they stop
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And they stop and they circle
And they stop,
God help 'cause it's a lot
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And may God have mercy
Verse 10
on the polyglot
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Gm
Gm
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Oh no, external actor
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Verse 11
A million miles across, the starlight
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Skip skip skip
A wide long curve of
spacedust melt around a star
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Keep shining in the cold
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C
Keep shining in the dark
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Dm
Gm
Gm
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Verse 12
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Bb
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External actor
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Verse 13
Neighbor- loving,
brother- loving
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Blanketing love of God above
Sigh of the river far from shore
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Silence and the voice
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C
don't speak any more
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Silence and the voice
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C
don't speak any more
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Silence and the voice
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C
don't speak any more
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Silence and the voice
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C
don't speak any more
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Silence and the voice
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C
don't speak any more
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Silence and the voice
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C
don't speak any more
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Silence and the voice don't speak any more

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