Okkervil River – Frontman In Heaven (Guitar)

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I'm trying to transmute tap water into wine

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Out here, somewhere in this Las Cruces motel room

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The floor and ceiling vibrate so I can barely stand

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Calm down, says the Sky Man, you're injured

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I dreamt last night I was halfway up the ladder to heaven

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And I shot up this morning with an attitude

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I charged through the city and I wandered the streets

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Trying to get answers with just my irresistible smile

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Shouting who will provide the celestial blueprint we need?

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Echoing voices zigzag in the night

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In and around forest-view apartments

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To crack a bay window and feel the fair winds

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She throws back her head and she lifts up her hands

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She drives herself into an amphetamine madness

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She says Tell me, just tell me I was right

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And she's taken all the wrong pills

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Her voice begins cracking

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Her eyes open, staring at nothing

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Do you get what I'm saying?

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I feel my heart beating. I wonder how I couldn't keep it from coming on

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I want you so much in this wild desert heat that it's scary

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But I know I have done so much that could be construed as damage

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And there's something bad within me that makes me want to take advantage

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When you're tripped up, slipped up

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Blonde hair and black-lipped up

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With all those silk straps round your ankles

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I feel myself convinced we could do whatever all night

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It's high time we broke completely free of all control

E
Hi there! How are you?

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Tell all your girlfriends I'm beautiful, I'm beautiful, I'm someone

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Tell them it's breezy and warm down here in this strange place

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I will wake in the morning displaying the mark of a new man

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Whose whole world has altered in front of his stupefied face

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I recall when things were way more fun around here

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But the Sky Man reminds me I'm almost a ghost of myself

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It seems to me everything fine fell away

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I've seen the forests burn and learned you have to arm yourself

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It's gonna be a funky fresh Christmas and I don't think I can handle it

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When there's so little dignity in anything

       E
Do you feel what I feel?

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And Christ, will you watch my back where I do roam?

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To a room full of murderous boys with no songs of their own

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I feel sick, I feel compromised all the way down

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Like an eagle with all of its feathers plucked out

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Can you see it in your mind?

           G
I was inconsiderate and cold

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But I can change if it's such a big deal to you

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I watch the dying sun sink on those jerk-offs in their convertibles

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I went a little out of control, oh, with the boys out in the parking lot

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Loneliness blinded me, down in the peanut-shell bars

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Wild wild nights, heavy romance

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There was Percodan spilled on the dancefloor

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There were corpses in plain sight and they were just walking around

        G
And the good old boys on their leatherette

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Want a woman who was down for whatever

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I learned to be compassionate by watching those working girls smile

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Heaven was lying 'neath my feet like some wall-to-wall carpeting

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And sometimes I believe that there's actually no such thing as love

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And one of these days I might not be so good to you

        E
Can you see what I'm saying?

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Come and sit where I'm sitting, oh darling

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Because now I understand that it wasn't you who held me back

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There were forces beyond my control and maybe I held myself down

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All of that money it gets so hard to stay yourself around

    G
But girl, give me just one little chance

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Well, show me some trust again

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I will sing your soul far away, up to a sparkling star

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Where all our old frends will be waiting

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Hold my hand and sigh in a soft whisper

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That you don't just care about getting what you paid for

           G
And on the day that I finally die

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Well I just might start screaming

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In the one private instant I cross over that unseen line

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The last remaining species of birds will be singing away

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Singing goodbye to my tastes, and my face, and LA

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Goodbye to New Mexico and Tex as

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When I'm gone, I know there will be some things I miss

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Hold me and help me remember

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Cause it's almost time

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We are born wired-up and our heads are all flooded with messages

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That get harder to pick out, except at the start and the end

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And you, my weeping friend

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I can't wait to describe to you what I'll see up there

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Though I'm sure it will be an adjustment

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There are voices calling me from down the hallway

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There are voices that filter up through the silence

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And Calm down, says the Sky Man, you're raving.

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So alright

       Bm
Nighty-night

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Nighty-night