Okkervil River Song

Down by Okkervil River, slow silent thick and black
 I stared into the water and the water, it stared back
 The night it fell from tangles of the branches on the shore
 As it had on Okkervil River before
 Down by Okkervil River's cigarettes and rusty tires
 We made ourselves an altar, we lit our nightly fires
 And the smoke lay thick and smothered, all the skunk cabbage and vines
 Where Gods were born and Gods lay down to die
 With your hand inside my pocket, you whispered in my ear
 "We've come from ugliness to find some refuge here
 With this bracken for a blanket, where these limbs stick out like bones
 We have found a place where we can be alone", oh-oh-oh
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 And I tried to tell you as I kissed your hard dry lips
 All the things I dreamed about, I touched your bone white hips
 Far away, our parents slept in as we watched our fire burn
 They dreamed of nothing and got nothing in return
 And the water slipped on slowly past our bodies in the weeds
 Pulling plastic wrap and razors on its current through the reeds
 Then I woke up one cold morning, felt an absence at my back
 And I searched and stared, but only the river stared back
 And I searched and stared, but only the river stared back
 And I searched and stared, but only the river stared back