Tag: The Decemberists

Eli, the barrowboy, you're the old town Sells coal and marigolds and he cries out all down the day Below ...

I fell on the playing field The work of an errant heel The din of the crowd and the loud ...

On the lam from the law On the steps of the capitol You shot a plainclothes cop on the ten ...

Four score years Living down in this rain swept town Sea salt tears Swimming round as the rain comes down ...

Sixteen military wives Thirty-two softly focused brightly colored eyes Staring at the natural tan Of thirty-two gently clenching wrinkled little ...

I'm an engine driver On a long run, on a long run Would I work beside her She's a long ...

In matching blue raincoats, Our shoes were our show boats We kicked around. From stairway to station We made a ...

We are two mariners Our ships' sole survivors In this belly of a whale Its ribs are ceiling beams Its ...

There are angels in your angles There's a low moon caught in your tangles There's a ticking at the sill ...

And under the boughs unbowed All clothed in a snowy shroud She had no heart so hardened All under the ...

There's an island hidden in the sound Lapping currents lay your boat aground Affix your barb and bayonet The curlews ...

Heart-carved tree trunk, Yankee bayonet A sweetheart left behind Far from the hills and the sea-swelled Carolinas That's where my ...

You belong to the gang And you say you can't break away But I'm here with my hands on my ...

The Shankill Butchers ride tonight You better shut your windows tight They're sharpening their cleavers and their knives And taking ...

Sing, muse, of the passion of the pistol Sing, muse, of the warning by the whistle On a night so ...

With all the grain of Babylon To cultivate, to make us strong And hidden here behind the walls Are shoulders ...

Ramblin', where to begin? I tasted summer on your peppery skin Been saved, the warm of the waves I felt ...

It was a cold night And the snow lay 'round I pulled my coat tight Against the falling down And ...

When we arrive, sons and daughters We'll make our homes on the water We'll build our walls aluminum We'll fill ...

And after the bombs subside And this long, low campaign Calls it good for the night We meet in the ...

Cut him up, boy You've got to cut him up, boy. He's a wicked disgrace, And he said it to ...

Two, three, four! I got a gun, I got a girl I got a bullet-proof plan to pull The perfect ...

So it started in your ovaries A stone, a seedling Our bones entwined A warning from the orderlies A bulge ...

Oh, Valerie Plame If that really is your name I would just shout the same To the world Dear Valerie ...

We'd come seven hours down Took the blue line to see where we hopped out And I was only joking, ...

Those were the days of Elaine That was the phrase that she used to describe to her son Of the ...

I'm sticking with you 'Cause I'm made out of glue And anything that you might do I'm gonna do too ...

I read in the paper today It's been a record year for rainfall And you were leaning 'gainst the bathroom ...

Caroline you're angry 'Cause you sleep like a spinster And you're twenty-eight You been thinking late You couldn't catch a ...

My true love went riding out In white and green and gray Past the pale of Offa's Wall Where she ...