Okkervil River Lyrics

Seth went to my school in our town of 500 people in New
Hampshire. My first encounter with him was sitting next to
him on a school bus. He was eating Handi-Snacks and had
clear braces, so the artificial cheese was all caught up in
there with the crumby crackers. He and Alex Arcone and
Chris Kimball transformed our tiny school into a theater of
the surreal. They would crawl across the classroom floor
mid-lecture to touch the social studies teacher lightly on
the wingtip. "Loose pause!" one of them would say, and the
group would collapse limp. "I’d like to tell the other
teachers what you’re doing, but I don’t know what it is
you’re doing," said one teacher to Seth as he pushed him
against the wall in fury.

Post-graduation, kids could either go on to the private