Okkervil River – Lost Coastlines (Ukulele)

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Packed and all eyes turned in no one to see on the quay

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No one waving for me just the shoreline receding

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Ticket in my hand and thinking wish I didn't hand it in

      C
Cause who said sailing is fine

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Leaving behind all the faces that I might replace if I tried on that long ride

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Looking deep inside but I don't want to look so deep inside yet

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Sit down sit down on the prow to wave bye

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There might not be another star farther on the line

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Look out look out at each town that glides by

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And there's another crowd to drown in crying eyes

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And see how that light you love now just won't shine

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There might just be another star that's high and far in some other sky

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We sing "Is that marionette real enough yet to step off of that set

      Am
And decide what her hands might be doing?

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Ruining the play, to in the ensuing melee escape?"

   C
We packed up all of our bags the ship's deck now sags

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From the weight of our tracks as we pace beneath flags

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Black and battered rattling our swords in service of some fated foreign war

C
We sail out on orders from him

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But we find the maps he sent to us don't mention lost coastlines

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Where nothing we've actually seen has been mapped or outlined

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And we don't recognize the names upon strange signs

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And every night finds us rocking and rolling on waves wild and wide

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Well we have lost our way nobody's gonna say it outright

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Just go la la la la la la la la la

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La la la la la la la la    (ad nauseum)