The War Criminal Rises and Speaks-Okkervil River

[00:01.65]The War Criminal Rises And Speaks -Okkervil River [00:06.882]The heart wants to feel [00:10.946]The heart wants to hold [00:15.387]The heart takes past subway past stop and shop past [00:18.923]Beal's and calls it coming home [00:23.345]The heart wants a [00:24.980]Trail away from alone [00:31.174]So the heart turns a sale into a well worn [00:37.968]Milestone [00:39.231]The heart wants soft furniture [00:43.399]Fought for fast food [00:47.172]Defended end table that holds paperbacks and back us news [00:55.28]The mind turns an itch into a bruise [01:02.650]And the hands start to twitch and they're feeling ill [01:08.97]Used [01:09.773]But you're almost back now you can see by the signs [01:17.784]From the bank you tell the temperature and then the [01:20.848]Time and the billboard reads some headlines [01:25.823]The head wants to turn to avert both it's eyes [01:33.601]But the mind wants to learn of some truth that [01:37.445]Might be inside reported crimes [01:41.328]They found a lieutenant [01:45.454]Killed a village of kids [01:49.233]After finishing off the wives he wiped off his knife [01:53.571]That's what he did [01:56.247]And they're not claiming that there's any excusing it [02:04.409]That was thirty years back and they just get paid [02:08.344]For the facts the way they got them in [02:12.437]Now he's rising and not denying his hands are shaking [02:17.89]But he's not crying [02:19.518]And he's saying how did I climb out of a [02:22.754]Life so boring into that moment [02:26.218]Please stop ignoring the heart inside oh you readers at home [02:33.963]While you gasp at my bloody crimes please take the [02:37.582]Time make your heart home [02:40.661]Where I'm forgiven by time where I'm cushioned by hope [02:48.560]Numbed by long drives where I'm talked off or doped [02:55.320]The heart wants to atone oh I believe that it's so [03:02.674]Because if I could climb I'd restore [03:05.454]Their lives back my own [03:09.24]Tens of times now it's size on a far distant road [03:15.951]In a far distant time where every night I'm still [03:19.747]Crying entirely alone [03:23.246]But the news today always fades away as you drive by [03:30.905]Until at dinnertime when you look into her eyes [03:38.915]Lit by evening sun that as usual comes from above [03:43.650]That straight unbroken line [03:47.74]The horizon it's rising is a given [04:01.332]Just like your living [04:08.508]Your heart's warm and kind your mind is [04:14.652]Your own [04:16.373]So our blood spattered criminal is inscrutable don't worry he [04:22.176]Won't [04:23.958]Rise up behind your eyes and take wild control [04:31.282]Say he's not of this time [04:35.263]He fell out of a hole