Okkervil River Dead dog Song Lyrics:
Sam, bless him, has died and left this home, the
woodchucks running wild, the bushes overgrown.
Slip unseen into the skein of trees, slide through
dusky grasses and scatter his ashes. It's all
over, he's never coming back. There'll be no
more roaming. He was only here for fourteen years,
and now the branches scratch my face and I can't
hold back my tears. Long ago I'd see him running
in the snow, he'd come in from the cold and
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he'd lie down by the stove. Pass along this
loping road, the needley grasp of briars on the
slope. He'd never been to church, so he
doesn't have a soul. He isn't waiting at the
place where all of us will go. But the woodchucks
wouldn't run so wild, the bushes wouldn't be
so overgrown if we were not alone. Bound unbound
through the boundless air, remaining wisps of
hair. Barking out through everywhere, the trees,
the grass, the rain, and Sam in the air. He was in
this world, by my side he was curled, but he came
uncurled and this world holds him that much ti
Lyrics: Dead dog Song, Okkervil River [end]