Okkervil River - It Was My Season
Okkervil River - It Was My Season


Okkervil River - It Was My Season Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: The Silver Gymnasium
Released: 2013

It Was My Season Lyrics


Tell me a reason
To break things off,
Or stop the bleeding,
When it's my season.

My mind was just revving.
Your eyes, they went hard.
Our parents were freaking,
But it was our season,
All that time ago.

And if you want to stop our "thing" you'll stop my heart.
All this pain inside's still just too sharp.

What was I thinking?
Step out of your trailer
And into this dark!
It's warm and it's breathing,
And it's our season.

Your dad is half sleeping.
But, really, he's gone.
Can you hear his VCR weeping?
They crossed his wires completely
When they made him fire that gun.

I'll say to you: to cut it off's to cut me down
If they take me out of school, you out of town
I called a friend, my world at end, my words unwound.
I said, "It's crashing down around our heads".
We're dumb. We're dead. Shut up about it now.

I won't say I'm sorry, and how would they know?
Below the Atari I could feel your heart was just going.
We'll meet on the weekend. Your dad won't be home.
Your sister's out cleaning.
You don't need to speak it, because I know,
Baby, I know. I said I know.
You know I know.
That it was our season.

It's hard to believe it.
There isn't a reason.
It's only a feeling
When I look back on it now, remember how
Mixed up I got before they got me sorted out
All that heart-in-my-mouth,
All that head filled with doubt,
It's fading out.
I hardly think about it now.

They say that I'll go to college
And you will stay home
And watch while I'm leaving,
And the cold will just creep in.
Oh, Jason, I know.

Writer/s: WILL SHEFF
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

It Was My Season
  • This the opening track from The Silver Gymnasium, the seventh album by the Austin, Texas-based indie band Okkervil River. The record is a love letter to Meriden, New Hampshire, where frontman Will Sheff grew up and this song finds him recounting happy memories of childhood summers spent there in the '80s.
  • This song's music video features a stage set painted in 1919 by artist Maxfield Parrish. It is now preserved in Meridian's town hall.