This song is based in part on the 1991 Yogurt Shop Murders in Austin, Texas.
There were these murder cases in Austin where these girls were working in a yogurt shop and these three college guys went to rob the place and killed and mutilated them. I worked for the state at the time and heard the det...
[Verse 1]
I'm surrounded, each doorway covered
By at least twenty men
And they're going to take me, throw me in prison
I ain't coming back again
I ain't coming back again
[Verse 2]
When I was younger, handsomer and stronger
I felt like I could do anything
But all of these people making all these faces
Didn't seem like my kith and kin
Didn't seem like my kith and kin
[Verse 3]
Colin Kincaid from the twelfth grade
Guess you could say he was my best friend
Lived in a big tall house out in Westfall
Where we would hide when the rain rolled in
Where we would hide when the rain rolled in
[Verse 4]
We went out one night and took a flashlight
Out with these two girls Colin knew from Kenwood Christian
One was named Laurie, that's what the story
Said next week in the Guardian
Said next week in the Guardian
[Verse 5]
And when I killed her, it was so easy
That I wanted to kill her again
I got down on both of my knees and
She ain't coming back again
She ain't coming back again
[Outro]
Now, with all these cameras focused on my face
You would think that they could see it through my skin
They're looking for evil, thinking they can trace it, but
Evil don't look like anything
Evil don't look like anything
Evil don't look like anything
Evil don't look like anything
Evil don't look like anything
Evil don't look like anything
Evil don't look like anything
Evil don't look like anything
Westfall was written by Will Sheff.
Westfall was produced by Okkervil River.
Okkervil River released Westfall on Tue Jan 22 2002.