Okkervil River - Lay Of The Last Survivor lyrics

She went out and found Her father face down on the ground Out in the cold Walked her way around A hill with the sun sinking down Into the snow All the whitecaps of the waves slap Like last handclaps And the dark water dies in a crash Is s**ed back with a moan Smoke on the coast And oh, piled fathers Soft, sighing daughters Where does it go? It's a dream, now I'll describe Let your mind drift on down, like so To when the world was young Big sky, blue of a dead bachelor's tongue A new bloom on the rose So some line someone told says Even light can get old Oh, slobbering lovers Drink-clinking brothers They don't have to tell us, 'cause we know What a way down What a ride, what a slide spin-around What a life to have known What a time And how I was singing out in a crowd Of the thousand most frightening faces I've known When the lighthouse Lending us sight finally went out What a fright we felt In that night Friends just shout it out All the whys and don't knows All the cries in our throats And how right we felt With our eyes tightly closed Holding something we broke And then whimpering sisters Sobbing well-wishers Well, it's over Just let my hand go