歌曲 | Song About a Star |
歌手 | Okkervil River |
专辑 | Down The River Of Golden Dreams |
He cut your strings so that he could float | |
Lit by lights, lifted by alcohol | |
Over acres of loving coast | |
Far away from your lonely ghost | |
Now he’s cool and all floating anchorless | |
Ports of call, where it’s fabulous | |
After all of this watching himself just crawl | |
Think you see him? | |
He’s not there, that’s just light that’s not yet dead | |
Wait two hours and watch what’ll be there instead | |
Was he small and cold like a ring you call up from home | |
Held so tightly, his limbs went numb | |
Worn away between your finger and thumb? | |
Well, now he’s bought and sold | |
Cry his call number down the phone | |
He can’t hear you, he’s on his float | |
Waving down to the folks at home | |
As the cameras love all of his faces | |
They hide all the traces of you in his heart | |
Stand in line to hold forth on his grace | |
But you won’t even get a head start | |
As his close-up comes cascading down from above | |
The eyes of a nation in love are looking on all of their hopes held up | |
And the words that some screenwriter counted and chose | |
And then set in their sequence and froze | |
Unfreeze on his tongue as he speaks for all of us but one | |
And honey, he’s gone, and baby, he’s everyone’s | |
In the dark sky tonight | |
Cast your eyes on the dim light that he will become | |
You’re like everyone who thinks they see him | |
He’s not there, that’s just light that’s not yet dead | |
Wait two hours and watch what’ll be there instead |
He cut your strings so that he could float | |
Lit by lights, lifted by alcohol | |
Over acres of loving coast | |
Far away from your lonely ghost | |
Now he' s cool and all floating anchorless | |
Ports of call, where it' s fabulous | |
After all of this watching himself just crawl | |
Think you see him? | |
He' s not there, that' s just light that' s not yet dead | |
Wait two hours and watch what' ll be there instead | |
Was he small and cold like a ring you call up from home | |
Held so tightly, his limbs went numb | |
Worn away between your finger and thumb? | |
Well, now he' s bought and sold | |
Cry his call number down the phone | |
He can' t hear you, he' s on his float | |
Waving down to the folks at home | |
As the cameras love all of his faces | |
They hide all the traces of you in his heart | |
Stand in line to hold forth on his grace | |
But you won' t even get a head start | |
As his closeup comes cascading down from above | |
The eyes of a nation in love are looking on all of their hopes held up | |
And the words that some screenwriter counted and chose | |
And then set in their sequence and froze | |
Unfreeze on his tongue as he speaks for all of us but one | |
And honey, he' s gone, and baby, he' s everyone' s | |
In the dark sky tonight | |
Cast your eyes on the dim light that he will become | |
You' re like everyone who thinks they see him | |
He' s not there, that' s just light that' s not yet dead | |
Wait two hours and watch what' ll be there instead |