Okkervil River "Savannah Smiles" Live at Sound Fix

[ginad17]

I though this song was about his daughter

[tumitama1]

@ginad17

It's supposed to be from Shannon Wilsey's father's point of view. Will Sheff has written a couple songs about people who have committed suicide, such as," John Allyn Smith Sails"

[ginad17]

@tumitama1 Thank you.

[tumitama1]

@ginad17

Your welcome.

[kathryntwelsh]

You're narrow-minded to use the word gay as a pejorative term.

[WhaleMountain]

all of you fuckers' input does not matter, because this song is AMAZING and we should leave it at that!

[Mirth666]

Yes this song is about a porn star, three of their songs are about Savannah the Adult Film Star. Red, Savannah Smiles and (Shannon Wilsey on the) Starry Stairs...

[AltoStratus619]

i love this song

[courtneyxcore14]

did anyone know that this song is about a porn star, named savannah smiles?

[PekingeseGirl555]

yes i do but her name was just savannah and she died in 1994

[anothermisfitkid]

'Savannah smiles' is the name of a movie, and the girl that you mention takes her nickname 'Savannah' because it was her favorite movie.

[dalisson55]

She was Axel rose (and a lot of famous guys) ex girlfriend.

[workingcs]

Slash actually.

[Alfrunk]

Ugh - please take your retarded filth elsewhere.

[fagc1979]

She's called Bridgitte Andersen, and I'll seen her movie SAVANNAH SMILES. ;)

[JacobBlack123]

um...my name is Savannah...

[marchioa]

iessssssss

[MarcusSandberg]

oh i live this song!

[romanoaj31]

I hope that was a type-o.  Very sad song about an abused porn star.

[Alfrunk]

so - she made her bed

[tylerdurden187]

ha, i think it was.

[7thappletree]

I hope thats not true. I think the beauty of the song would nearly all lost if that were the case.

[nevito77]

Sheff said that he wanted to add more adult sexuality in indie songs... it won't lost the beauty just because it's a porn star

[snillaz]

it's more beautiful because of that. i mean listen to the song. when I factored in the fact that savannah is a porn star, what started for me as a vaguely sad song that i sort of liked, became much sadder and gave a lot of the lyrics more meaning.

[TheAbsolutionHowl]

snillaz - EXACTLY. Same exact thing happened to me. I like it a lot more after finding out the meaning. I think I like Starry Stairs slightly, SLIGHTLY, better though.

[milkythistle]

then i suppose all the beauty is gone, but you should realise, prostitutes, drug addicts, eating disordered, are beautiful. however pretentious and gay that sounds, it just shows how narrowminded you are.

[7thappletree]

Beauty is about uniqueness and writing about that stuff is unoriginal. My first impression of the song was the perspective of parents about the tragedy of seeing their chlidren grow and the passing of time; the sadness brought on by nostalgia and how at age 8 kids love their parents to death but in their 20s are very distant. That's a much more original idea and thus far more beautiful and sad

[DisposedToaster]

@7thappletree Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Like watch American Beauty or something. Beauty, it's the most freeform of views in our world. There is always something that somebody will find beautiful whilst another finds it repulsive