Okkervil River – The War Criminal Rises And Speaks (Guitar)

                   C                        Em
The heart wants to feel. The heart wants to hold

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The heart takes past Subway, past Stop and Shop, past Beal's, and calls it coming home

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The heart wants a trail away from alone

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So the heart turns a sale into a well-worn milestone

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The heart wants soft furniture, fought-for fast food

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Defended end table that holds paperbacks and back U.S. News

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The mind turns an itch into a bruise

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And the hands start to twitch and theyre feeling ill-used

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But you're almost back now, you can see by the signs

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From the bank you tell the temperature and then the time, and the billboard reads some headlines

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The head wants to turn, to avert both its eyes

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But the mind wants to learn of some truth that might be inside reported crimes

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So they found a lieutenant who killed a village of kids

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After finishing off the wives, he wiped off his knife and that's what he did

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And they're not claiming that theres any excusing it

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That was thirty years back, and they just get paid for the facts the way they got them in

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Now hes rising and not denying. His hands are shaking, but hes not crying

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And hes saying how did I climb out of a life so boring into that moment?

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Please stop ignoring the heart inside, oh you readers at home!

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While you gasp at my bloody crimes, please take the time to make your heart my home

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Where I'm forgiven by time, where I'm cushioned by hope

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Where I'm numbed by long drives, where I'm talked off or doped

                        C       Em
Does the heart want to atone? Oh, I believe that its so

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Because if I could climb back through time, I'd restore their lives and then give back my own

                  Dm                    G
Ten times now its size on a far distant road

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In a far distant time where every night I'm still crying, entirely alone

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But the news today always fades away as you drive by

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Until at dinnertime when you look into her eyes

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Lit by evening sun - that, as usual, comes from above that straight, unbroken line

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The horizon - its rising seems a gi-ven

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Just like your li-ving

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Your hearts warm and kind. Your mind is your own

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So our blood-spattered criminal is inscrutable; dont worry, he wont

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Rise up behind your eyes and take wild control

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Say "hes not of this time, he fell out of a hole"