Blanket And Crib - Okkervil River
Safe safe
Enjoy your time feeling so safe
And treasure that smile on your face okay
This time will see that it's replaced
In a while
So go on smile
Round handshakes all around
That's your style
And no one would call it denial
For you're not even sure what's in store
Though it's more
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
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 knives
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 she 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
Mother
So hey 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
You should know that it won't
You should know that it won't
And so phillip let go