Down Down The Deep River - Okkervil River

Spit into the center of your home town

There is leaves in the street and there are friends around you now

All the days of your life in a line

All the way that it seemed by '89

But it’s not all right

It’s not even close to all right

Down a hall in your house, down a road in December

(Down, down, down the deep river, down, down, down the deep river)

Down a hall in your house, down a road in December

(Down, down, down the deep river, down, down, down the deep river)

We lie awake at night in a tent and I say

«Tell me about your uncle and his friend

Cause they seem like very bad men

Well, we wanna keep away from them.»

Bend in the road back there, we saw the place to go

Tell me about the greatest show or the greatest movie you know

Or the greatest song that you taped from off the radio

You’re gonna play it again and again, it cuts off at the ending, though

Tell me I’m always gonna be your best friend

Now you said it one time, why don’t you say it again?

All the way down the line to where the telephone ends

Come on and shout it on down the wire

But it’s not all right

Not even close to all right

Down a hall in your house, down a road in December

(Down, down, down the deep river, down, down, down the deep river)

Down a hall in your house, down a road in December

(Down, down, down the deep river, down, down, down the deep river)

And as the rescue party, the volunteer team

Ah, they’re just kids of eighteen, and it’s the worst thing they’ve seen

And they’re standing all around that tree

And I’m so sorry that I can’t stop crying

(Oh, I know.)

Shivering from the late fall cold

I felt like a solid ghost

I ran and then I couldn’t slow

My father found me though, my father took me home

He said, «Oh, son, I saw you get knocked down

And I ran out.

I bet your head was spinning

With that bright pain you stunned

When you’ve only just begun to be only just beginning.»

Tossed in the viper pit, all those feelings and fears

And all that difficult shit in all those tender years

There was something in the air, something gathered in the air

Something singing in the wind

Oh, I’ll be your fighter and you’ll be my mirror

And you’ll be all right because I’ll be right here

Oh kid, now I’m not going anywhere

I swear I’ll try to not be going anywhere

Though it’s not all right.

It’s so far from all right

We’ll make it into a choice somehow

I don’t know, but you’ll have a choice somehow

Down a hall in your house, down a road in December

(Down, down, down the deep river, down, down, down the deep river)

We can never go back;

we can only remember

(Down, down, down the deep river, down, down, down the deep river)

Maybe they told you about the summer sky

Maybe said there’s a great gold spirit in the summer sky

All your friends (all your best, best friends)

Are gonna gather around your bed at night

Well that’ll make it all right because it is still so far from all right

Oh, kid, I know

Down a hall in your house, down a road in December

(Down, down, down the deep river, down, down, down the deep river)

Up the stairs four flights up;

can you feel my heart shiver?

(Down, down, down the deep river, down, down, down the deep river)

Waking in the dawn with that dream getting dimmer and dimmer

(Down, down, down the deep river, down, down, down the deep river)

I said, «Are we going down, are we going down, are we going down the deep river?

Oh, down the deep river?»

(Down, down, down the deep river, down, down, down the deep river)

Down down, down down, down the deep river.

Down, down the deep river

(Down, down, down the deep river, down, down, down the deep river)

Why don’t you, why don’t you say you still see it, say you remember?

(Down, down, down the deep river, down, down, down the deep river)

Are we going down, are we going down, are we going down, are we going down,

are we going down?

(Down, down, down the deep river, down, down, down the deep river)

Are we going down, are we going down, are we going down, are we going down,

are we going down the deep river?

(Down, down, down the deep river, down, down, down the deep river)

Because I know it’s scary, baby

(Down, down, down the deep river, down, down, down the deep river)