John Allyn Smith Sails - Okkervil River

By the second dear friends
My head will burst my life will end
So I'd like to start this one off by saying
Live and love
I was young and at home in bed
And I was hanging on the words some poem said
And thirty-one
I was impressionable
I was upsettable
I tried to make my breathing stop my heart beat slow
So when my mom and John came in I would be cold
From a on Washington Avenue the year of 1972
Broke my bones and skull and it was memorable
It was half a second and I was halfway down
Do you think I wanted to turn back around and teach a class
Where you kiss the a** that I've exposed to you
And at the funeral the University
Cried at three poems they'd present in place of a broken me
I was breaking in a case of suds
At the brass rail a fall-down drunk with his tongue torn out and his balls removed
And I knew that my last lines were gone while stupidly I lingered on
Other wise men know when it's time to go
And so I should too
And so I fly into the brightest winter sun
Of this frozen town I'm stripped down to move on
My friends I'm gone
Well I hear my father fall
And I hear my mother call
And I hear the others all whispering Come home
I'm sorry to go
I loved you all so
But this is the worst trip I've ever been on
So hoist up the John B sail
（Hoist up the John B sail）
See how the main sail sets
（See how the main sail sets）
I've folded my heart in my head and I wanna go home
With a book in my hand
In the way I had planned
Well this is the worst trip I've ever been on
Hoist up the John B sail
（Hoist up the John B sail）
See how the main sail sets
（See how the main sail sets）
I've folded my heart in my head and I wanna go home
With a book in each hand
（With a book in each hand）
In the way I had planned
（In the way I had planned）
I feel so broke up
I wanna go home