Call Yourself Renee Okkervil River

[Verse 1]
Don't look back until you realize you're pointedly not trying to look back
And then reconsider, try for a clearer mind, try for a grace of some kind
Leave your house and walk into autumn light
Imagine a river, massive and galloping beneath your feet
Or you can call yourself Renee again and you can move back to Rapid City

[Verse 2]
You live in a hotel, you wait for a phone call, you wait for an email
You look out the window at a tree, weighted down with snow
You worry about your mother, you watch a couple movies, you take an Ativan
You walk down a Rapid City street alone
And at night there's a pink cast underneath a blank grey cloudhead
Well that's something pretty to look at in the sky
And I don't know why So-And-So's taking so much time to breathe something new into my life

[Pre-Chorus 1]
And there's a tip-tap on the window that could be fate's pale face looking in
Energy could be in the trembling hands of a tree, or it could be light
Or it could be nothing at all

[Chorus]
Out in the night
The world was right against our skin
And it was right again
Out in the night
The world was right against our skin
And it was right, baby