Okkervil River - Pink-Slips lyrics

rate me

Three brides before breakfast

These reds, they’re just rectus

Right hand on my heart around

My left hand snaps your necklace

Each day is a little more scary

Holding on, get away just barely

Moms and dads are rationing their cash

For the commissary

But I can’t stop without going all the way

It’s a habit, someone gave me up

This man in the black cage, canary …the clips

Across here, in a pink-slip

This wish just to going back here

When I know it wasn’t ever, ever happening

Show me my best memory, it’s probably super crappy

Not here, standing sexless with sluts of both sexes

Liars, lumps and drug addicts and drunks

I love my friends but I can’t stop without going all the way

And I’ve been that way since ’83

Oh, midwife with a jet life or a genie with a golden spur

A price to pay to pink-slips

A country Cadillac in the valley of mirrors

With a cold cane, there was nobody here

Came for the communism, I kissed it on the lips

It came with the singers in hazel pink-slips

Is it a kiss or it’s just a dream and I’m drifting?

Other fish lay lifted, only happy till the age of 10

It’s still a gift, but we can’t go back, those two too sad and dies

It’s just a dream we all have

Now I know in the touch lane, a post per post of puckered lips

From Academy Awards to pink-slips

I show them my Corvette with no … for years

And I’m standing in the rain to get the champagne or beers

They said “who’s that shadow sneaking up behind the pier?”

He was rushing he was rattled now he’s finally in the clear

To be a, a refugee from the rat race with a swag tuxedo in his face

A music room that you can’t place, sing the songs on all them tapes

He’s the lonely aid on the planet … now he doesn’t even write, he just rows

And they cover up his cot with pink-slips