Pink Slips - Okkervil River Cover

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    celticheartbeat

    Published on Jan 07, 2022
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    Hey Folks

    This is a new tune I picked up these last couple of days.Its called "Pink Slips" by the band Okkervil River.

    The song portrays scenes of descent into poverty and depression due to unemployment, and the life of sex, drugs and rock & roll.A pink slip is a note included in a worker’s paycheck to let them know that they’ve been fired.A pink slip is also a kind of undergarment for women.

    "Pink Slips"
    Okkervil River

    Three brides before breakfast
    These rails just wrecked us
    My right hand on my heart
    While my left hand snaps your necklace

    Each day gets a little more scary
    We're holding on, in a way, but just barely
    Moms and Dads are rationing their cash for the commissary
    But I can't stop without going all the way
    It's a habit someone gave me
    The nursemaid of the blank page
    A canary of the American eclipse
    A profiteer picking up pink slips

    All this just to go back, hey
    When I know wasn't ever, ever happy
    Show me my best memory, it's probably pretty crappy
    Nine years down in Texas
    With sluts of both sexes
    Liars, lumps, and drug addicts, and drunks; I love my friends
    But I can't stop without going all the way
    And I've been that way since '83
    The midwife of the jetlife
    Or a genie with a golden spliff
    A prostitute paid in pink slips

    I crashed my Cadillac in the valley of mirrors
    When the call came, there was nobody here
    When they came from the communists, I kissed them on the lips
    Then they came for the singers, in a haze of pink slips

    But we can't go back to those 227 days
    It's just a dream we all were having
    Hey, mariner in the dirt trade
    Oh, postman of the post-apocalypse

    • from Academy Awards to pink slips!

    A refugee from the rat race
    In his white tuxedo and his sad-face
    A music group that your dad plays, singing songs about autumn days
    He's the laureate of the Granite State
    Now he doesn't even write, he just riffs
    And they'll cover up his coffin with pink slips.

    Three brides before breakfast
    These rails just wrecked us
    My right hand on my heart
    While my left hand snaps your necklace

    Each day gets a little more scary
    We're holding on, in a way, but just barely
    Moms and Dads are rationing their cash for the commissary
    But I can't stop without going all the way
    It's a habit someone gave me
    The nursemaid of the blank page
    A canary of the American eclipse
    A profiteer picking up pink slips

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