Biography:
Okkervil River is an indie/folk rock band from Austin, Texas USA. Formed in 1998, the band takes its name from a short story by Russian author Tatyana Tolstaya. The band currently consists of Will Sheff (vocals, guitar), Will Graefe (guitar), Sarah K. Pedinotti (keyboards), Benjamin Lazar Davis (bass) and Cully Symington (drums).
The band self-released their first album, Stars Too Small to Use, which led them to the South by Southwest music festival.
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Other songs:
- A Favor (guitar Solo)
- A Stone
- Lost Coastlines
- Maine Island Lovers
- Our Life Is Not A Movie Or Maybe
- Plus Ones
- Song Of Our So-called Friend
- Westfall
- A Girl In Port
- A Glow
- A Hand To Take Hold Of The Scene
- A King And A Queen
- All The Time Everyday
- Another Radio Song
- Auntie Alice
- Black
- Black Nemo
- Black Sheep Boy
- Blanket And Crib
- Blue Tulip
- Bruce Wayne Campbell Interviewed On The Roof Of The Chelsea Hotel 1979
- Calling And Not Calling My Ex
- Comes Indiana Through The Smoke
- Dead Faces
- Do What You Gotta Do
- Dont Move Back To La
- Down Down The Deep River
- Famous Tracheotomies
- For Real
- For The Enemy
- From A Cutlass Cruiser
- Get Big
- Hanging From A Hit
- Happy Hearts
- It Ends With A Fall
- It Was My Season
- John Allyn Smith Sails
- Kansas City
- Lady Liberty
- Lay Of The Last Survivor
- Lido Pier Suicide Car
- Lines
- Listening To Otis Redding At Home During Christmas
- Love To A Monster
- Mary On A Wave
- No Hidden Track
- No Key No Plan
- Oh Precious
- Okkervil River Rip
- Okkervil River Song
- On A Balcony
- On Tour With Zykos
- Pink Slips
- Piratess
- Pop Lie
- Presidents Dead
- Red
- Rider
- Seas Too Far To Reach
- She Would Look For Me
- Simon Smith And The Amazing Dancing Bear
- Singer Songwriter
- So Come Back I Am Waiting
- Song About A Star
- Song Of Our So
- Starry Stairs
- The Industry
- The Latest Toughs
- The Next Four Months
- The Rise
- The Valley
- The War Criminal Rises And Speaks
- Title Track
- Unless Its Kicks
- Wake And Be Fine
- We Need A Myth
- Where The Spirit Left Us
- White
- White Shadow Waltz
- Yellow
- You Cant Hold The Hand Of A Rock And Roll Man
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The same chord progression is used throughout the entire song. Also, these are the same
chords used in a much earlier Okkervil River song titled "Murderess."
[Verse 1]
F#m D C#m Bm
Wh-oooo wrote those lines on the wall?
A G#m F#m E
Let's retrace where they scrawled ancient characters.
F#m D C#m Bm
It's 2:00, and your sister's slip falls,
A G#m F#m E
and the afternoon crawls across the room and tackles her.
[Chorus 1]
F#m D C#m Bm
I don't think that you would sink that ship that's only passing through,
A G#m F#m E
because I don't believe that you might be a murderess.
F#m D C#m Bm
But I saw inside each small, dark eye as it was turning blue,
A G#m F#m E
all the strength inside to do just what the captain says and hang the rest.
[Verse 2]
F#m D C#m Bm
Moved by the rhyme in the psalm,
A G#m F#m E
we agreed that it was wrong, and to believe in it.
F#m D C#m Bm
Oooh!, swooned the wall all night long.
A G#m F#m E
But a lie's a lie, no matter what guy's breath's in it.
[Chorus 2]
F#m D C#m Bm
I don't know that I would go that far down some dark avenue,
A G#m F#m E
with a whispering crew of shadows all protecting it.
F#m D C#m Bm
But I saw inside each small white lie, as it was turning true,
A G#m F#m E
the ability to do all things expected of it.
[Verse 3]
F#m D C#m Bm
Oh, murderess, in the wilderness, with your victims all around you.
A G#m F#m E
As their combined love forms a pool your knife's reflected in,
F#m D
now I'm ready, too, with my throat to you.
C#m Bm
On this mountain. By this moon.
A G#m F#m E
And what I want the most to do is prove that I'm not like them.
chords used in a much earlier Okkervil River song titled "Murderess."
[Verse 1]
F#m D C#m Bm
Wh-oooo wrote those lines on the wall?
A G#m F#m E
Let's retrace where they scrawled ancient characters.
F#m D C#m Bm
It's 2:00, and your sister's slip falls,
A G#m F#m E
and the afternoon crawls across the room and tackles her.
[Chorus 1]
F#m D C#m Bm
I don't think that you would sink that ship that's only passing through,
A G#m F#m E
because I don't believe that you might be a murderess.
F#m D C#m Bm
But I saw inside each small, dark eye as it was turning blue,
A G#m F#m E
all the strength inside to do just what the captain says and hang the rest.
[Verse 2]
F#m D C#m Bm
Moved by the rhyme in the psalm,
A G#m F#m E
we agreed that it was wrong, and to believe in it.
F#m D C#m Bm
Oooh!, swooned the wall all night long.
A G#m F#m E
But a lie's a lie, no matter what guy's breath's in it.
[Chorus 2]
F#m D C#m Bm
I don't know that I would go that far down some dark avenue,
A G#m F#m E
with a whispering crew of shadows all protecting it.
F#m D C#m Bm
But I saw inside each small white lie, as it was turning true,
A G#m F#m E
the ability to do all things expected of it.
[Verse 3]
F#m D C#m Bm
Oh, murderess, in the wilderness, with your victims all around you.
A G#m F#m E
As their combined love forms a pool your knife's reflected in,
F#m D
now I'm ready, too, with my throat to you.
C#m Bm
On this mountain. By this moon.
A G#m F#m E
And what I want the most to do is prove that I'm not like them.
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