Hanging From a Hit Songtext
von Okkervil River

What this night wants is what it gets
Strung in silken knots
Lit by cigarettes flaring side by side
With the streets all wet
As the only thing that′s bright

And I don't need to cross that bridge
I find I′m swinging or sailing over the pit tonight
I'm hanging from a hit tonight
Was wild enough to order up and toss across my lips

What's making all my tears
Is taking all my fears away
But I don′t need to cry
′Cause now I'm clear
Ooh-ooh

A moth that′s swerving through the sage
A creature crashing from a cage
A shadow vaporized by a new sun ray


A day she spends the night
And I can hear her sighing
As she's almost asleep on one side
I lie back on my pillow
And ask what her husband is like
Ooh-ooh

And she says, "I smile polite, and I tip and tithe
And I see the sights with a well-trained eye
But I calmly cry
Because I′m too much mine without him"

"And I lie, reclined where the room is quiet
And it's quiet at night
The soft silk is fine
And the waves are white
But the wind has died without him"

"And I scream my smiles
And I want my wires and I need my stripes
And I read the lines until I lid my eyes
And I′m losing time without him"

And she says
"I ignite inside and I flash with fire
And I limp from life and I'm blazing blind
And I'm surging live and give up my mind
When with him"


"And then every dream inside
Turns to flames, fades to gray and is dying
And the smoke rises into
A white, blank, bare, broke-open sky"