White Shadow Waltz - Okkervil River

Abandoned by all her admirers

Wild White Shadow Waltz

Stands alone on a stair down the hall

Just one slip from a trip and a fall

In a cold morning, holding her lighter

Wan White Shadow Waltz

Stirs, sputters and stalls

Wakes, wavers and walks right through her prison walls

She says, «The doorbell is ringing

Go see who it is

Our little island’s sinking into mist»

A day came, a night went, it lightened

An animal broke his way out

Moped through the scattering crowd

And crawled back to his circus shell

And circling the zoo’s screaming clients

Was White Shadow Waltz

Deaf to their torn breaths and calls

Wait, take a look closer hey, he’s hardly moving at all

She says, «There's someone is knocking

Go see who it is

Our little world is shaking

I guess our little world is breaking»

In the presence of all our despisers

We’ll falter and crawl to the bed

The world is a black shadow bled

And what is this tune in my head?

She says

«It's just the white wind when it whimpers

It’s just the black rain when it squalls

It’s just white meat whistling a waltz

It’s just nine hands wiping a white shadow off of the walls»