The War Criminal Rises and Speaks - Okkervil River

The War Criminal Rises and Speaks - Okkervil River
The heart wants to feel
The heart wants to hold
The heart takes past subway past stop and shop past
Beal's and calls it coming home
The heart wants a
Trail away from alone
So the heart turns a sale into a well worn
Milestone
The heart wants soft furniture
Fought for fast food
Defended end table that holds paperbacks and back us news
The mind turns an itch into a bruise
And the hands start to twitch and they're feeling ill
Used
But you're almost back now you can see by the signs
From the bank you tell the temperature and then the
Time and the billboard reads some headlines
The head wants to turn to avert both it's eyes
But the mind wants to learn of some truth that
Might be inside reported crimes
They found a lieutenant
Killed a village of kids
After finishing off the wives he wiped off his knife
That's what he did
And they're not claiming that there's any excusing it
That was thirty years back and they just get paid
For the facts the way they got them in
Now he's rising and not denying his hands are shaking
But he's not crying
And he's saying how did I climb out of a
Life so boring into that moment
Please stop ignoring the heart inside oh you readers at home
While you gasp at my bloody crimes please take the
Time make your heart home
Where I'm forgiven by time where I'm cushioned by hope
Numbed by long drives where I'm talked off or doped
The heart wants to atone oh I believe that it's so
Because if I could climb I'd restore
Their lives back my own
Tens of times now it's size on a far distant road
In a far distant time where every night I'm still
Crying entirely alone
But the news today always fades away as you drive by
Until at dinnertime when you look into her eyes
Lit by evening sun that as usual comes from above
That straight unbroken line
The horizon it's rising is a given
Just like your living
Your heart's warm and kind your mind is
Your own
So our blood spattered criminal is inscrutable don't worry he
Won't
Rise up behind your eyes and take wild control
Say he's not of this time
He fell out of a hole