《The War Criminal Rises and Speaks》歌词

[00:00:00] The War Criminal Rises and Speaks - Okkervil River

[00:00:06] The heart wants to feel

[00:00:10] The heart wants to hold

[00:00:15] The heart takes past subway past stop and shop past

[00:00:18] Beal's and calls it coming home

[00:00:23] The heart wants a

[00:00:24] Trail away from alone

[00:00:31] So the heart turns a sale into a well worn

[00:00:37] Milestone

[00:00:39] The heart wants soft furniture

[00:00:43] Fought for fast food

[00:00:47] Defended end table that holds paperbacks and back us news

[00:00:55] The mind turns an itch into a bruise

[00:01:02] And the hands start to twitch and they're feeling ill

[00:01:08] Used

[00:01:09] But you're almost back now you can see by the signs

[00:01:17] From the bank you tell the temperature and then the

[00:01:20] Time and the billboard reads some headlines

[00:01:25] The head wants to turn to avert both it's eyes

[00:01:33] But the mind wants to learn of some truth that

[00:01:37] Might be inside reported crimes

[00:01:41] They found a lieutenant

[00:01:45] Killed a village of kids

[00:01:49] After finishing off the wives he wiped off his knife

[00:01:53] That's what he did

[00:01:56] And they're not claiming that there's any excusing it

[00:02:04] That was thirty years back and they just get paid

[00:02:08] For the facts the way they got them in

[00:02:12] Now he's rising and not denying his hands are shaking

[00:02:17] But he's not crying

[00:02:19] And he's saying how did I climb out of a

[00:02:22] Life so boring into that moment

[00:02:26] Please stop ignoring the heart inside oh you readers at home

[00:02:33] While you gasp at my bloody crimes please take the

[00:02:37] Time make your heart home

[00:02:40] Where I'm forgiven by time where I'm cushioned by hope

[00:02:48] Numbed by long drives where I'm talked off or doped

[00:02:55] The heart wants to atone oh I believe that it's so

[00:03:02] Because if I could climb I'd restore

[00:03:05] Their lives back my own

[00:03:09] Tens of times now it's size on a far distant road

[00:03:15] In a far distant time where every night I'm still

[00:03:19] Crying entirely alone

[00:03:23] But the news today always fades away as you drive by

[00:03:30] Until at dinnertime when you look into her eyes

[00:03:38] Lit by evening sun that as usual comes from above

[00:03:43] That straight unbroken line

[00:03:47] The horizon it's rising is a given

[00:04:01] Just like your living

[00:04:08] Your heart's warm and kind your mind is

[00:04:14] Your own

[00:04:16] So our blood spattered criminal is inscrutable don't worry he

[00:04:22] Won't

[00:04:23] Rise up behind your eyes and take wild control

[00:04:31] Say he's not of this time

[00:04:35] He fell out of a hole