Okkervil River - A King And A Queen Lyrics






If you want to see and be seen, then be seen.
Your dress is dark red and your opening eyes are bright green.
Make a scene, but don't lie on the bed,
laid out like you're dead, because honey, you're murdering me.
Be a little sheep learning who'll shear and who'll feed.
The hands come and they leave. Be hands holding a knife.
Be a being on two feet, with his heart trembling,
butchering for a king he believes in though he's never seen.
Be the princess in that stone tower, crying for that handsome butcher's plight
(and, as some princess might, she still calls him a knight.)
But the best thing for you would be queen, so be queen.
You're all that I need. Though I know that it never can be,
I'd be pleased to post your decrees,
to fall at your knees,
to name all your streets and to sit down and weep when you're carried back through them
and set down to sleep, and to lie by your side for sublime centuries
(until we crumble to dust when we're crushed by a single sunbeam.)





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  1. G.... ....

    Newer Okkervil River doesn't come anywhere close to this!

  2. M.... R....

    so fucking good

  3. D.... M....

    Lyrics;
    If you want to see and be seen, then be seen.
    Your dress is dark red and your opening eyes are bright green.
    Make a scene, but don't lie on the bed,
    laid out like you're dead, because honey, you're murdering me.
    Be a little sheep learning who'll shear and who'll feed.
    The hands come and they leave. Be hands holding a knife.
    Be a being on two feet, with his heart trembling,
    butchering for a king he believes in though he's never seen.
    Be the princess in that stone tower, crying for that handsome butcher's plight
    (and, as some princess might, she still calls him a knight.)
    But the best thing for you would be queen, so be queen.
    You're all that I need. Though I know that it never can be,
    I'd be pleased to post your decrees,
    to fall at your knees,
    to name all your streets and to sit down and weep when you're carried back through them
    and set down to sleep, and to lie by your side for sublime centuries
    (until we crumble to dust when we're crushed by a single sunbeam.)

  4. F.... L....

    this song

  5. K.... C....

    I cannot get over this song 

  6. j.... m....

    Excellent song well done

  7. T.... P....

    These guys are motherfucking modern-day poets

  8. t.... ....

    though i absolutely love blind pilot... will sheff was here first...

  9. d.... h....

    sounds like blind pilot

  10. d.... ....

    omg the butcher she calls a knight... WOW my situation exactly. this girl is dating a douch who no one likes but to her, hes special.... i love this song

  11. r.... ....

    favorite movie EVER, i liked the part where the king and queen got together

    r.... ....

    What movie

  12. S.... B....

    @nermalify Best lines ever