Lyrics Okkervil River – Mary On A Wave

Coal-black virgin spinning
Above an open ocean
I hear, I feel, I need, I know
Seven sailors swimming, shipwrecked

Well I checked out the royal place
Saw the babies all bathed in champagne
So many miles of dirt I traveled
Just to park here in your shade

Borne away on a wave of love
Borne away on a wave

Well they picked poor Robin clean
In the shadow ravine
I seen the bones, I seen his teeth
Well, it’s scrawled upon the streets
Our enemy’s victory’s complete
And they’ll be coming to collect within the next few hundred weeks

I get a little soft shiver in my shoulder
Cause I think there’s someone watching
I get a little soft whistle in my ears now
But I guess it’s just time passing

Borne away on a wave of love
Borne away on a wave

Blessed blue-black virgin shifting
In the ocean’s rhythm
Partly living tissue, partly always hidden
Give me strength & vision
Watch over the earth
It’s listing, lady, like it’s almost broken

Our parents are fading out, fading out, fading out
Into the fuzzy fuzz
«I can’t», I gasp, I gasp and pant
I can’t get enough air into my lungs
I see the bald head of a vulture
Come cresting up the stairs
Time holds me, greenish-brown
And dying, in a studio somewhere

Borne away on a wave of love
And it’s all for you, girl
Borne away on a wave