Blanket and Crib

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