Lay of the Last Survivor - Okkervil River

She went out and found her father
Face down on the ground
Out in the cold
Walked her way around a hill
With the sun sinking
Down into the snow
All the whitecaps of the waves
Slap like last hand-claps
And the dark water dies in a crash
Is sucked back with a moan
The smoke on the coast
Oh piled fathers
Soft sighing daughters
Where does it go
It's a dream now I'll describe
Let your mind drift on down like so
To when the world was young
A big sky blue of a dead bachelor's tongue
A new bloom on the rose
So some line someone told says
Even light can get old
Oh slobbering lovers
Drink-clinking brothers
They don't have to tell us because we know
What a way down
What a ride
What a slide spin-around
What a life to have known
What a time and how I was singing out
In a crowd of the thousand
Most frightening faces I've known
When the lighthouse
Lending us sight finally went out
What a fright we felt
In that night friends
Just shout it out
All the whys and don't knows
All the cries in our throats
And how right we felt
With our eyes tightly closed
Holding something we broke
And then whimpering sisters
Sobbing well wishers
Well it's over
Just let my hand go