submissions
| Okkervil River – The President's Dead Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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"I’m personally not into protest songs. For every one half-decent protest song, there are 500 unbelievably boring, embarrassing, tedious ones. I don’t consider 'The President’s Dead' a protest song. For one thing, it’s written from the point of view of a young Republican who is horrified at the assassination described in the song. I tried to write 'The President’s Dead' as a song whose narrative and musical accompaniment feints in one direction and then goes somewhere else."
http://cokemachineglow.com/feature/interview/okkervilriver.html |
submissions
| Okkervil River – Westfall Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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"There were these murder cases in Austin where these two girls were working in a yogart shop and these three college guys went to rob the place and killed and mutilated them. I worked for the state at the time and heard the details they didn't report -- how they cut them open and filled them with frozen yogart. They caught one of the kids that did it, and there he was, on TV, and I remember my co-workers looking at him and looking at him for the evil on his face. You wanted to see the evil, but it wasn't there." - Will Sheff |
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