Okkervil River is probably the best band in the world. You're welcome.
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4/ Anyone can sing about a relationship that has problems. But this!! ...A house hung from strings And I fly out on my silver, scissoring wings (with the other sardines) Over cities of things mommies need Light as gas, and half-assedly free, Like I was in nineteen ninety three
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5/ "a house hung from strings" and then he flies out of it "on silver scissoring wings", where "scissoring" works both as a description of wings AND juxtaposed with the word "strings" which support the house (and thus the home, and thus the relationship). I am awed every time
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6/ ...Over the ruins like we're staggering apes. What we get is what we take In a split open place where a man can get kinged In a palace of panic and flames...
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7/ * a split open place where a man can get kinged * a palace of panic and flames it almost makes one weep to realize that one will never, in a lifetime, create any prose or poetry to rival what Okkervil river throws off in a single song
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8/ > And the stadium roared. > And the warriors embraced. > And the golden shore groaned > Beneath the weight of my tastes. I read once that the lyricist of the band attended some elite $30,000 / yr high school, with the scions of the overclass (his parents were teachers)
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9/ Not every single song is quite this great, but many are. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EMLbKNcKww …https://genius.com/Okkervil-river-the-war-criminal-rises-and-speaks-lyrics …
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