Tag: The Decemberists

Thou unconsolable daughter Said the sister When wilt thou trouble the water In the cistern And what irascible blackguard Is ...

Gentle leaves, gentle leaves Please array a path for me The woods are blowing thick and fast around Columbine, Columbine ...

And here I am Softer than a shower And here I am To garland you with flowers To lay you ...

I'm Made of bones of the branches The boughs and the brow-beating light While my feet are the trunks And ...

Isn't it a lovely night? And so alive With fireflies Providing us their holy light And here we made a ...

Mother I can hear your foot-fall now Soft disturbance in the dead-fall how It proceeds you like a black smoke ...

I had entered into a marriage In the summer of my twenty-first year And the bells rang for our wedding ...

And all the while whispering arbors Provide cover What previous witnessed ardor Of our lovers Our heroine here falls prey ...

I'm made of bones, of the branches, the boughs and the brow-beating light While my feet are the trunks and ...

Annan water You loom so deep and wide I would cross over If you would stem the tide Build a ...

I have snipped your wingspan My precious captive swan Here all clipped of kickstand Your spirit won't last long Don't ...

Father I'm not feeling well The flowers me you fed Tasted spoiled for suddenly I find that I am dead ...

Margaret arrayed the rocks around the hull before it was sinking A million stones, a million bones, a million holes ...

Here we come to a turning of the season Witness to the arc towards the sun The neighbors blessed burden, ...

Had a dream You and me and the war of the end times And I believe California succumbed to the ...

Big mountain, wide river, there's an ancient call, these tree trunks these stream beds, leave our bellies full they sing ...

If the rocks in the box Get the water right down to your socks This bulkhead's built of fallen brethren ...

On a winter Sunday I go To clear away the snow And green the ground below April all an ocean ...

See this ancient riverbed See where all the follies led Down by the water and Down by the old main ...

Baby wants a new spin Baby wants a broken heart Hear you found a lynchpin to keep it all from ...

Here's a hymn to welcome in the day Heralding a summer's early sway And all the bulbs all coming in, ...

Come the war Come the avarice Come the war Come hell Come attrition Come the reek of bones Come attrition ...

Dear Avery, I think of you only Were you waving, were you dead on the vine Oh Avery, I think ...

The air all painted pallid gray The storm was coming in Folks were lining out in all directions Me and ...

Here arise and say it's a honey (?) All this light that daybreak brings And the ancient bands that brung ...

Bring out your weeping weeds Put on your ten-pint bowlers Bring out your weeping weeds We're burying Davy We're burying ...

You're all made of tattered heel And you're the only constant on the line We could go together some And ...

Julie catch a rabbit by his hair Come back step, like to walk on air Get back home where you ...

Guido, I wish that you and Lapo and I Could be taken by magic and placed in a boat Where ...

We know, we know, we belong to ya We know you built your life around us Would we change? We ...