Don't look back until you realise you're pointedly not trying to look backThen reconsider trying for a clearer mind, try for a grace of some kindLeave your house and walk in the autumn lightImagine a river, massive and galloping beneath your feetOr you can call yourself Renee again and you can move back to Rapid CityYou live in a hotel, you wait for a phone call, you wait for an emailYou look out the window at a tree, weighted down with snowYou worry about your mother, you watch a couple movies, you take an AtivanYou walk down a Rapid City street aloneAnd at night there's a pink cast underneath the blank grey cloud headWell it's something pretty to look at in the skyAnd I don't know why so-and-so's taking much time to breathe something new into my lifeAnd there's a tip-tap on the window that could be Fate's pale face looking inEnergy could be in the trembling hands of a tree, or it could be lighterCould be nothing at allOut in the nightThe world was right against our skinAnd it was right againOut in the nightThe world was right against our skinAnd it was right, babyMysteriously absent for the afternoon and suddenly missing for a full monthHis mother called up, called around the corner, called out shivering from a dreamCalled his father five states to the south, said he was goneWhen he could have easily been seen in a Vero Beach Dillard'sWeaving in and out of the racks of beautiful blue men's shirtsOr in South Florida, breezing through the drive-through, easy like a song on the stereoLetting it all slide like an easy-going godOr he could have not existed, just a vision of his motherWhen she wished it so hard into something she could almost seeOr he could have been a feeling in the air, or the guy who cuts your hairHe could have been anyone, he could even have been meAnd me, I don't care if I come back as a single waveOr an oriole on a spell branch on a treeCause I'm not scared to die as long as I knowthat the universe has something really to do with meOut in the nightThe air was right against our skinAnd it was rightOut in the nightThe air was right against our skinAnd it was right, babyI wanna make it nice againI wanna make it alrightI wanna make it nice againI wanna make it alrightOut in the nightThe world was right against our skinAnd it was alright, childOut in the nightThe world was right against our skinAnd it was alright, babyI wanna make it nice againI wanna make it alright
Lyrics by Okkervil River
A Favor A Girl In Port A Glow A Hand To Take Hold Of The Scene A King And A Queen A Leaf A Stone All the Time Every Day And I Have Seen the World of Dreams Another Radio Song Antarctica Starts Here (John Cale) April Anne (John Phillips) Auntie Alice Black Black Nemo Black Sheep Boy Black Sheep Boy (Black Sheep Boy Appendix) Black Sheep Boy #4 Black Sheep Boy 4 Blanket And Crib Blood Gatherer Blue Tulip Bruce Wayne Campbell Interviewed On The Roof Of Th... Bruce Wayne Campbell Interviewed On The Roof Of Th... Bruce Wayne Campbell Interviewed on the Roof of th... Calling and Not Calling My Ex Comes Indiana Through the Smoke Constance Days Spent Floating Dead Dog Song Dead Faces Do the Crawl (CBS October 22, 1988) Do What You Gotta Do Down Down The Deep River Down the river of golden dreams Dreadful Wind and Rain Dry Bones For Real For Real [Multimedia Track] For The Captain For The Enemy From a Cutlass Cruiser Frontman in Heaven Get Big Girl In Port, A Give Me the Night Gold Faces Good Liquor Gonna Carry Me Down Goodnight, Irene Hand To Take Hold Of The Scene, A Hanging From a Hit Happy Hearts He Passes Number Thirty-Three I Came Here To Say I'm Going Away (Serge Gainsbour... I Guess We Lost I Want To Know (Charles F. Olsen/Ed Sanders) I'm in Love with Susan Smith In A Radio Song In Someone’s Backyard It Ends With A Fall It Was My Season It's So Nice To Get Stoned John Allyn Smith Sails John Allyn Smith Sails (Demo) Judey on a Street Just Give Me Time Kansas City Kathy Keller Lady Liberty Last Love Song For Now Lay of the Last Survivor Lido Pier Suicide Car Life Like Like Life Lines Listening To Otis Redding At Home During Christmas Lost Coastlines Love to a Monster Maine Island Lovers Mary on a Wave Mermaid Millionaire Missing Children Money Changes Everything Moonshiner Murderess My Bad Days Nancy (Orange Mothers) No Easy Way Down No Hidden Track No Key, No Plan O, Dana Oh, Precious Oh, the Wind and Rain Okkervil River R.I.P. Okkervil River Song Omie Wise Omie Wise On A Balcony On Tour with Zykos One Soul Less on Your Fiery List (The Triffids cov... Our Life Is Not a Movie or Maybe Pink-Slips Piratess Plan D (Bill Fay cover) Plus Ones Pop Lie Pulled Up the River Red Rider Riot Act Savannah Smiles Seas Too Far To Reach See See Rider She Would Look for Me Show Yourself Simon Smith and the Amazing Dancing Bear (Randy Ne... Singer Songwriter So Come Back, I Am Waiting Solo (Sandy Denny) Song About A Star Song of Our So-Called Friend Stand Ins, Pt. 1 Starry Stairs Stay Young The Industry The Blonde In The Bleachers (Joni Mitchell) The End of the Innocence The Latest Toughs The Next Four Months The Rise The Room I'm Hiding In The Valley The Velocity Of Saul At The Time Of His Conversion The War Criminal Rises And Speaks This House Is Not a Home Title Track Unless It Kicks Unless It's Kicks Unravel (Björk cover) Wake and Be Fine Walked Out On A Line Walking Without Frankie We Need a Myth Weave Room Blues Westfall What Are They Doing In Heaven Today? Where The Spirit Left Us White White Shadow Waltz Whole Wide World Willow Tree Yellow You Can't Hold The Hand Of A Rock And Roll Man Your Past Life as a Blast Your Past Life as a Blast