LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: PIRATESS/OKKERVIL RIVER

Who wrote those lines on the wall?
Let's retrace where they scrawled ancient characters
It's 2:00 and your sister's slip falls
And the afternoon crawls across the room and tackles her
I don't think that you would sink that ship that's only passing through
'Cause I don't believe that you might be a murderess
But I saw inside each small dark eye as it was turning blue
All the strength inside to do just what the captain says and hang the rest
Moved by the rhyme in the psalm
We agreed that it was wrong and to believe in it
Swooned the wall all night long
But a lie is a lie, no matter what guy's breath's in it
I don't know that I would go that far down some dark avenue
With a whispering crew of shadows all protecting it
But I saw inside each small white lie as it was turning true
The ability to do all things expected of it

I don't think that you would sink that ship that's only passing through
'Cause I don't believe that you might be a murderess
Did you hide inside each small white lie before it turning true
The ability to see and to do all the things the captain says

Murderess, in the wilderness
With your victims all around you
Their combined love forms a pool your knife's reflected in
And now I'm read to, with my throat to you
On this mountain, by this moon
What I want the most to do is prove that I'm not like them

ALBUM: I AM VERY FAR (2011)