This House Is Not a Home Lyrics
Chocolate and condolences from the boy who hit me
Lying in an infirmary bed in the starch and silence
Watching birds as they hit the screen, suddenly in slow motion
Watching doctors drift through the room, the light is slipping quietly
The sheets are on. The bed is gone. The building isn't floating
My other birth is hiding behind the plastic curtains
Cold got in the middle of the night and cracked the bathroom mirror
This house is not a home, you say, and I�ve got fourteen fingers
The autumn holds your hand and sits beside you in an armchair
Other's face steams in the cold, the doorknob sob's behind you
So hold yourself so hold yourself, with practice, in a movie
This world is not your own but when you're gone it's going to miss you
This world is not your own, and all the women, as they kiss you
Are fading fast, and wouldn't last, you exit from this old house
The window's cracking casing, the pictures painted clovers
They tell you all their secrets, in which they're spreading rumours
This world is not your own but when you're gone, it's going to miss you
This world is not your own, but when you're gone, it's going to miss you
this song is so perfect. i was in the hospital for about a week over the summer because i was hit by a car and this song was stuck in my head the entire time.
Where does this song appear? I can't find it on any online store on any album.
This song is actually quite a mystery. It's pretty much agreed that the singer is Will Sheff, lead singer of Okkervil River, and a simple google search credits the song to Okkervil River everywhere. However, it's never appeared on any Okkervil River release. And in a Message Board used by the Okkervil River website, http://www.jound.com/board/viewtopic.php?t=189 the band's former bassist Zach said it was absolutely NOT an Okkervil river song.
So either it was Will Sheff singing with a different band (eg Shearwater) or a solo track he recorded on his own.
Also, it's a good song.
How do you get a copy of this song?
Maybe it's a Shearwater B-side or something. Will Sheff did "My Good Deed" for them back when.
this song HAS been released by the band and it's not a shearwater b-side. this is from their bedroom ep, which is pretty rare. but i have all three tracks from it up on my youtube channel (shelbithefro), as well as a link to download them.
No, this song was NOT released on the Bedroom EP. The track list for that EP is:
- Dead Dog Song
- Numbers
- Satisfy You
- Happy Hearts
- Nathan
- Blackest Coat
Source: http://web.archive.org/web/20010312172017/www.jound.com/okkervil/songs.html
Also, the story by Will Sheff on either Don't Fall in Love With Everyone You See or Bedroom EP (I don't remember, but I think the former) on the Jound website said that a version of Dead Dog Song was the first track. What Targetpractice.v01 said was correct. I have seen that post. Unfortunately, the website is not up anymore, so you might not be able to confirm what either of us said yourself.
Also unfortunately, the EP is not in circulation on the Internet, last I knew...just a track list and album art. I scoured it a while back. But at least we have remade versions of four of the tracks, which are amazing themselves. And I have Nathan. Though I am not sure that it's the same version that was on the EP, it sounds studio-recorded. The lyrics are slightly different from the official ones posted online and on this site, but that doesn't mean anything. I have never heard Numbers. :(
Anyway, to get back on topic, This House Is Not a Home seems to be from a Will Sheff solo album that was released a long while back, called Song for a Ghost. The track list is:
- This House Is Not a Home
- Song for a Ghost - part I
- Keepaway
- Line of Duty
- Hallways
- Song for a Ghost - part II
- Pictures
- Overing
- 85
Line of Duty was an old version of A Favor, Pictures an old version of Dead Faces, and Overing an old version of Last Love Song for Now. The rest of the songs have original lyrics, from what I can tell, though I don't have the lyrics for Hallways or Song for a Ghost. Song for a Ghost may have been instrumentals, but I don't know. I really, really, really want to hear Keepaway!...and all the other songs. I wonder why the first track stuck around online, but it seems like no one has the rest of them. Source: http://web.archive.org/web/20010504042949/www.jound.com/ghost/