[ti:A Leaf]
[ar:Okkervil River]
[al:Julie Doiron & Okkervil River]
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[00:00.00]A Leaf - Okkervil River
[00:08.62]Jeremy lee at an ice-creamery on the evening of october 10
[00:16.04]Lost 55 dollars and 70 cents
[00:19.41]Was shot twice in the chest and again in the head
[00:23.39]The police found him dead by the walk-in
[00:28.93]But he'd loved God so much as he lay inside his bed
[00:36.45]He could feel her sweep over his skin
[00:43.83]Feel her filling the air with the weight
[00:47.00]Of her care and didn't care what was waiting for him
[00:53.55]How he'd cry cry so much knowing that this was the end
[01:01.38]And then feel like a leaf lifted by wind
[01:09.00]How I'd love him so much that I almost
[01:11.96]Cave in every time my hand touches the pen
[01:32.06]So lower your cameras and switch off the
[01:35.25]Spot you shouldn't be proud of the footage you got
[01:39.43]Because there won't be an end to the similar shots that have
[01:43.90]Happened are happening
[01:45.37]And can't be prevented from endlessly happening again
[01:52.83]For all your pride and your comfort and speed of ascent
[02:00.32]You're heading too soon to a similar end
[02:07.99]Only coughing up blood in a hospital bed
[02:11.75]As your heart-attack cancer or car accident
[02:15.55]Breaks you down to a place
[02:17.53]In the ground for your kids to come visit
[02:23.36]And if God loves us back now we know out and in
[02:31.28]That she must have no control over this world's events
[02:39.09]Because no one deserves this much punishment
[02:52.73]But now it's late in the autumn and leaves line the bend
[02:56.73]It's a beautiful day for the first snow to land
[03:00.53]So it's landing on me and on jeremy lee
[03:07.62]Who left this world gracefully broken