Okkervil River Lyrics
Last Love Song for Now
Love, take my sword from the slaughter. Melt it down into vapor, and my armor,
too. I hear hot blood flap and flutter from your temple to shoulder, and all
through you. When you hold on to me it isn't easy. When you hold on to me isn't
fair. But when there's no key you find me there. I'm turning white, I'm leaves
of paper. Turn my hands from this labor and lift me through. When you hold onto
me it isn't easy, but you should hold on to me. It isn't fair, but when there's
no key you find me there.
And kids get lost, lambs out wandering. And bigger, blacker things come calling
from outside a tiny garden somebody once laid their hearts on. And kids get
lost, and kids get broken. And their diaries get found and opened. And their
legs get led astray, and then they lie inside some secret place where the sun
looks in the open ceiling. And kids grow up, and kids stop feeling kids, and
feel adults, and face away. But in last love dreams, the lost and passed out of
this world are softly sighing. They're trying to decide if they should leave the
things that keep them crying. And some will rise and keep on living with open
eyes, with minds forgiven. The river's flowing is arrested and resumed after
they've blessed it over and over and over, and over and over and over, and over
again. (It's over.)