Down Down The Deep River - Okkervil River

Speeding to the center of your hometown

There are leaves in the street

And there are friends around you now

All the days of your life in a line

All the way it seemed by 89

But it's not all right

It's not even close to all right

Down a hall in your house

Down a road in December

Down down down the deep river

Down down down the deep river

Down a hall in your house down a road in December

Down down down the deep river

Down down down the deep river

We lie awake at night in a tent and I say

Tell me about your uncle and his friend

Because they seem like very bad men

Well we oughtta keep away from them

Bend in the road back there

We saw the place to go

Tell me 'bout the greatest

Show or the greatest movie you know

Or the greatest song

That you taped from off the radio

Play it again and again it

Cuts off at the ending though

Tell me I'm always gonna

Be your best friend

Now you said it one time

Why don't you say it again

All the way down the line

To where the telephone ends

Come on and shout it on down the wire

And it's not all right

It's not even close to all right

Down a hall in your house

Down a road in December

Down down down the deep river

Down down down the deep river

Down a hall in your house

Down a road in December

Down down down the deep river

Down down down the deep river

And as the rescue party

The volunteer team ah

They're just kids of eighteen

And it's the worst thing

They've seen they're standing all around that tree

And I'm so sorry that I can't stop crying

(Oh I know )

Shivering from the late fall cold

I felt like a solid ghost

I ran and then I couldn't slow

My father found me though

My father took me home

He said Oh son

I saw you get knocked down

And I ran out I bet your head was spinning

With that bright pain you stunned

When you've only just begun

To be only just beginning

Tossed in the viper pit

All those feelings and fears

And all that difficult sh*t in

All those tender years

There was something in the air;

Something gathered in the air

Something singing in the wind

I'll be your fighter and you'll be my mirror

And you'll be all right because I'll be right here

Oh kid now I'm not going anywhere

I swear I'll try to not be going anywhere

Though it's not all right It is so far from all right

We'll make it into a choice somehow

I don't know but you'll have a choice somehow

Down a hall in your house down a road in December

(Down down down the deep river down down down the deep river)

We can never go back; we can only remember

Down down down the deep river

Down down down the deep river

Maybe they told you 'bout the summer sky

Maybe they said there's a great gold spirit in the summer sky

Or all your friends (all your best best friends)

Are gonna gather around your bed at night

Well that'll make it all right

Because it is still so far from all right

Oh kid I know

Down a hall in your house down a road in December

(Down down down the deep river down down down the deep river)

Up the stairs four flights son; can you feel my heart shiver

(Down down down the deep river down down down the deep river)

Wakin' in the dawn with that dream getting dimmer and dimmer

I said Are we going down the deep river Down the deep river

Why don't you say you still see it say you remember Are we going down

Are we going down the deep river Because I know it's scary baby