[ti:Hanging from a Hit]
[ar:Okkervil River]
[al:I Am Very Far]
[00:02.00]Okkervil River - Hanging from a Hit
[00:04.00]
[00:33.52]What this night wants is what it gets,
[00:37.84]Strung in silken knots,
[00:40.07]Lit by cigarettes flaring side by side,
[00:46.33]With the streets all wet,
[00:48.52]As the only thing that's bright.
[00:52.04]And I don't need to cross that bridge.
[00:55.98]I find I'm swinging or sailing
[01:01.09]Over the pit tonight.
[01:05.17]I'm hanging from a hit
[01:09.07]Tonight was wild enough
[01:11.64]To order up and toss across my lips.
[01:25.27]What's making all my tears
[01:33.37]Is taking all my fears away.
[01:43.16]But I don't need to cry,
[01:48.80]Cause now I'm clear.
[02:07.47]A moth that's swerving through the sage.
[02:12.07]A creature crashing from a cage.
[02:16.10]A shadow vaporized by a new sun ray.
[02:23.66]A day she spends the night, and I can hear her sighing
[02:32.45]As she's almost asleep on one side,
[02:41.01]I lie back on my pillow and ask what her husband is like.
[03:10.27]And she says, "I smile polite,
[03:17.21]And I tip and tithe,
[03:19.39]And I see the sights with a well-trained eye.
[03:24.05]But I calmly cry,
[03:26.13]Cause I'm too much mine without him.
[03:32.13]I lie, reclined where the room is quiet,
[03:37.01]And it's quiet at night.
[03:39.50]The soft silk is fine
[03:41.54]And the waves are white,
[03:44.06]But the wind has died without him.
[03:50.07]And I scream my smiles,
[03:52.33]And I want my wires and I need my stripes.
[03:56.38]And I read the lines until I lid my eyes,
[04:00.30]And I'm losing time without him."
[04:04.75]And she says, "I ignite inside
[04:08.34]And I flash with fire
[04:10.80]And I limp from life
[04:12.87]And I'm blazing blind
[04:14.74]And I'm surging live
[04:16.77]I give up my mind
[04:22.23]When with him.
[04:28.14]And then every dream inside turns to flames,
[04:35.09]Fades to grey, and is dying.
[04:44.06]And the smoke rises into a white, blank, bare, broke-open sky."