Wake and Be Fine - Okkervil River

Someone said to me, «I'll come into your dream

And speak it to you.»

I already knew

I found her in an attic where, dramatically, she leaned in to me

And she whispered these lines

«Wake and be fine

You’ve still got time to wake and be fine»

Embracers meet with more embracers on the street

Say, «Hold me, dear stranger.

Grab on to me

We’re carrying our years around us, or they’re chasing down us

We’re all here at the same time

Can we wake and be fine?

We’ve still got time to wake and be fine

Villains on the creep and killers in the crowd

Are carving apart our childhood house

Lovers in their sheets, dreaming lovers sweetly

Turn in their sleep all under sunbeams

Everybody’s crashing, running, calling out the coming

Of things they kind of can see

Someone said to me, «It's just a dream

Why don’t you wake up and you’ll see?

It’s fine»

In those miles racing over endless fields of snow

You already heard, you already know

The rescue party finally lost their hearts

And then they shattered their bones, and then they died all alone

The ships all float from beaches by themselves

Above the hot afternoons.

(Goodbye, you balloons!)

Adrift above indifferent clouds.

Our hearts are crashing loudly

On some rock where the gulls whine, «Wake and be fine»

We’ve still got time to wake and be fine, oh

Be fine

Be fine

Be fine

Be fine