Black Nemo - Okkervil River

Marine monster stuck in Indian summers

And damns on the line but funny is the photo

It’s floating away, going away on the tide

Crystalized wished like kids cried for Christmases

Ticking off lists with the pens and the fists

Before floating way, going away on the tide

On the back of a beast and in that charge

Down a broken beach, the little stars

They spin the shots, the shards light on down

To the mouth of the sea and the morning comes

And in they carve the edge of the world

And the locks of fire go lying around

What when you heard it say forward first

Transfer through the person, a mystical blur

Got you going away, floating away on the tide

Everybody ran basements, and pit falling caves

And crackling tapes cause faints

Well, this songs means I’m going away, I’m floating away on the tide

Down the bloody beach with a burnt out car

So little I see, there are slicked out stars

All screaming for a distant, high roof

And the fizzed out snow, look out, folks scream

And saw a broken ghost in an old soap scene

' out, follow my rules

I had a vision of everything hidden

But always around me, it fought me, it found me While floating away, going away on the tide

Shooting through time while my eyes getting glassy

And land while I watched seasons rocketing past me They’re going away, a little more every day, all the time

On the balcony in the brilliant sea where 'need

A voice spoke to me and said these things just gotta be I don’t know why, and I said here’s to the freeway flasher

Here’s to the desperate dasher, gone, I’mma keep him from crashing on And stay one, I know you think you miss him

I know you think you knew him

But you were just passing through the light

And he is leaving now, he’s gone