Okkervil River Blanket and Crib Lyrics:
Safe, safe - enjoy your time feeling so safe, and
treasure that smile on your face, okay? Because
time will see that it's replaced in a while. So
go on, smile. And handshakes all around: that's
your style, and no one would call it denial, for
you're not even sure what's in store. And
it's more than you'll be able to take standing
up straight. And it won't be okay. And you
won't be somebody who it's just happening to,
because it's a trap that you, and only you, have
laid. Laid with a towel up over your face, in your
armchair, just lying in wait, waiting forces were
gathering outside your door. They sharpened their
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knives and smiled with no smiles in their eyes, a
little bit larger in size and a little bit
hungrier for that tiny prize. And my mother once
said "Son, remember this, no matter what someone
did: that they once were just a kid at breast and
in bib, in blanket and crib. So just reach inside
yourself and find the part that still needs help,
find that part in someone else and you'll do
good," so I thought that I would. Hey - I love
you, it goes without saying. I would give you the
world on a tray, though they're already tracing
a line across your throat. Far too late in the
game you'll find that you have been betrayed:
propped up and pushed into your place. I could
claim that it all would go great, but the reason I
came is to say that it won't. You should know
that it won't, and so, Phillip, l
Lyrics: Blanket and Crib, Okkervil River [end]