Okkervil River - Pop Lie |
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Pop Lie
Okkervil River All sweetly sung and succinctly stated Words and music he calculated To make you sing along With your stereo on, As you stand in your shorts on your lawn Get completely incorporated by some couple who consummated Their first love by the dawn A falling star wished upon That flashed in the sky and was gone And, mouths wet and long hair braided By the back room the kids all waited To meet the man in bright green That they wrecked their hearts upon He's the liar who lied in this pop song And you're lying when you sing along Yeah your lying when you sing along So here's to car seats so cruelly weighted And here's the faces already faded At the end of the day when they just threw away The only good thing that they owned And now they're pinned down and strangulated But, at the food court, the float's inflated People lined up to see The man who dreamed up the dream That they wrecked their hearts upon He's the liar who lied in his pop song The liar who lied in this pop song And you're lying when you sing along Oh, yeah you're lying when you sing along Week by week it climbs up and comes on And we're feeling all right though we know it's all wrong I'm ashamed to admit that I cannot resist What I wish were the truth but it's not And I truly believe we're not strong And we'll sing until our voices are gone And then sink beneath that manicured lawn |
