Okkervil River

Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy 4 lyrics

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Bleeding Black Sheep Boy,

mirror in pieces.

Turn the receiver,

trace the police station.

Line to my number

and number my reasons

for this paranoia,

for these accusations.

Each night the numbers

paired off like lovers,

collided together

so I can remember

my name or my nation.

Bay Black Sheep Boy.

Go back beyond the pasture,

you cracked out of my head.

Get in your battered Mustang

and the back seat will be your bed.

Burning Black Sheep Boy,

dark denim phantom.

Face full of flames,

the ears full of cheers that have fanned them.

I'd slice off the horns that sprung right from those temples

I was chased from my bedroom,

I was chased from my candles.

By fear of the numbers,

paired off like lovers,

collided together

so I can remember

my face or my station.

Pacing black sheep boy.

The floor just won't support you,

You hovered through the room.

Get in your battered Mustang

and the backseat will be your tomb.

And I rode into Baltimore

and I found a hotel room

where I tried to escape you,

but the phone line wouldn't go through.

And inside the mirror,

well I saw you stamping

staring out

I'd recognize your eyes

You fell for any of the lines that come flying out.

Nothing I've heard from you sounds sane or safe.

Words falling down from the ceiling

where the mirror is stealing

the light to reveal us both tonight

and we're both kneeling in the

black pool of your shadow.

You cracked out of my head.

Go back beyond the pasture,

where I'll smash your mirror

till you're dead.

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