Okkervil River

Westfall

Okkervil River


I'm surrounded, each doorway covered by at least twenty men. And they're going to take me and throw me in prison. I ain't coming back again. When I was younger, handsomer and stronger, I felt like I could do 
anything. But all of these 
people making all these faces 
didn't seem like my kith and kin. Colin Kincaid from the 
twelfth grade, I guess you 
could say he was my best 
friend. He lived in a big tall house out on Westfall 
where we would hide when the rain rolled in. We went out 
one night and took a 
flashlight, out with these 
two girls Colin knew from Kenwood Christian. One was 
named Laurie, that's what the story said next week in the Guardian. And when I killed her it was so easy that I wanted to kill her again. I got down on both of my knees and….she ain't coming back again. Now, with all these cameras focused on my face, you'd think they could see it through my skin. They're looking for evil, thinking they can trace it, but evil don't look like any