Okkervil River

For The Enemy

Okkervil River


Oh, my enemy, you've got company, you're not alone. They're watching over me while each town you pass fades as it folds. So in the night we might get lost in our fright. So in the day softly we'd flow, floating away. And it pours from the faucet's mouth like our 
fortune comes flowing out - 
every word of which, without 
a doubt, will find us 
together and together bring us down. They'll tie us down 
with those fine thin threads 
and run their knives up and 
down our skin, until what was 
in will be out again, above 
the sea on that sunny ledge. And in the day softly we'll 
flow, floating away. And in 
the night we will get lost, lost in our fright. La la la la