Okkervil River - Love To A Monster lyrics

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Lover now that you've left me I'm glad you're unlovely

Because if you could take all the heat in your heart and just hang it from you

I wouldn't be able to bear the way you cannot love me

It's much easier of me to make a monster out of you

And so here I go substituting the glow from your temples

All our sighs and our trembles and each last letter sent you

From the cheap little pen of this weak little man the one singing

Out his jangling ringing and hopefully stinging attack upon you

Yeah so here I go just exploding the hope we'll be speaking

Some day years from now seeking friendship and understanding

Yeah I hope you get angry and hurt and have the hardest of landings

And I hope your new man thinks of me when he sees what a number I did on you

Come on boys

I grow tired of this song turn my eyes to the blonde in the bleachers

She's a lovely young creature I think she's seeking adventure

I think she's ready to see that the world ain't so sweet nor so tender

I won't break her just bend her and make her into my new ringer for you

I stay in the same comfy town write the same old songs down drive the same streets

Seek the same sense of dull peace whisper the same sweet words to the chippies

The same walk by the road and where the same muddy snow's finally leaving

But I'll fight off the spring I don't want lovely things I don't want the earth new