Okkervil River - A Leaf lyrics

Jeremy Lee had an ice-creamery On the evening of October 10th Lost fifty-five dollars and seventy cents Was shot twice in the chest And again in the head The police found him dead by the walk-in And he loved God so much As he lay inside his bed He could feel her sweep over his skin Feel her filling the air with the weight of her care He didn't care what was waiting for him How he'd cry, cry so much Knowing that this was the end And then feel like a leaf Lifted by wind How I love him so much that I almost cave in Every time my hand touches the pen So lower your cameras and switch off the spot You shouldn't be proud of the footage you got 'Cause there won't be an end to the similar shots That have happened, are happening, and can't be prevented From endlessly happening again For all your pride and your comfort and speed of ascent You're heading too soon for a similar end Maybe coughing up blood in a hospital bed As your heart attack, cancer or car accident Breaks you down to a place in the ground for your kids to come visit And if God loves us back, now we know what it is She must have no control over this world's events Because no one deserves this much punishment Now it's late in the autumn, the leaves line the bend It's a beautiful day for the first snow to land So it's landing on me and on Jeremy Lee Who left this world gracefully broken