The Surgeon Above the Arbor [Seattle, 2017] Songtext
von Okkervil River

So while, actually am about to tell you, that am trying really hard to take personal account on a level of understanding and you know like they′d always be more requests than possible play so I had to improvise enthusiasm based scale or scale taken to account depending on the circumstances and you know I got all kinds of requests. I got requests for river songs, I got requests for sure other songs different covers and staff like that. There was one request I got but It got anything out of this album or anything else like that. Careful what you wish for little girl. So one request was from someone in New Jersey right know and Josy requested some songs, different songs of all other songs and in there their was a song called The Surgeon Above The Abour and I was curious somebody what's a cover or she things is like a song but somebody else she thinks I wrote it. Oh well I don′t know and I googled it and that phrase doesn't exist on the internet at all. So I decided to honor her request got to play The Surgeon Above The Abour. This guys don't know how it goes, but I barely know how it goes

The surgeon above the arbor
A current out in the harbor
Glide away like a braid on a carousel
Slide behind like a cry on a carousel

I′ve a certain admiration for the dumb
Who barge in like the first cop on a crime scene
Evidence, evidence isn′t everything
Upside-down in the dewy morning
In the morning


I joined Corps and they put me to work
Cracking bones in half and fattening lips
Serving up stew and breathing in bleach
Crying with mothers caked in debris
Dying with daughters lying halfway in the street
Felt incomplete ooh oh

A certain surging of ardor
Stir of sunlight, stars burst
The surgeon above the arbor
A current out in the harbor
A current in the harbor

We never told will spend a under minute sitting on the request of that song, you tricked me to making a song. Am not gonna fucking forgive you for that, that all