The Decemberists piosenki

Sixteen military wives, Thirty-two softly focused, brightly colored eyes, Staring at the natural tan, of thirty-two gently clenching, wrinkled, little hands. Seventeen company men, Out of which only twelve will make it back again. Seargeant sent a letter to f...

Let's commence to coordinate our sights get them square to rights get them square to rights condescend to calm this riot in your mind find yourself in time find yourself in time and i am waiting, should i be waiting? and i am wanting, should be wanting?...

Thou unconsolable daughter said the sister when wilt thou trouble the water in the cistern and what irascible black bart is the father and when young Margaret's waistline grew wider the fruit of her amorous centaur inside her And so our heroine wi...

There's a place your mother goes when everybody else is soundly sleeping; through the lights of Beacon Street and if you listen you can hear her weeping, she's weeping, 'cause the gentlemen are calling and the snow is softly falling on her petticoats. And she'...

and after the bombs subside and this campaign calls it good for the night we meet in the streets will we meet in a bar's cold light? we grip at our hands we hold just a little tight after the bombs after the bombs subside and after the rockets calm and the...

Angel, won't you call me? Could I be the only though I am a lost cause, Angel, won't you call me? Waiting for a sweet breeze, read it in the tea-leaves Saw them crown you May Queen Heard you sing the sweetest thing But I been so unbridled I fled at the face...

annan water you loom so deep and wide I'll cross over if you would stem the tide build a boat that I might thwart the other side to reach the farther shore where my true love lies in wait for me in wait for me in wait for me in wait for me Oh, gray...

I have come a few miles I got blisters on my slippered feet As I rise As I rise California's okay But I think I might stay in the shade For awhile For awhile Ladybird, ladybird You're the prettiest song I heard In awhile In awhile La di da, da da ...etc....

Electricity! Yeah, you can all thank me Took some lightning, a kite, and a fat brass key And they're putting up streetlights in Gay Paris You’re welcome from our young nation I’m the only American the French wanna see They call me a genius, I can’t disa...

Billy Liar's got his hands in his pockets Staring over at the neighbor's, knickers down. He's got his knickers down. So the summer is eternity for you? Sleeping in until your father's shaking you down, He's shaking you down. And the mailroom shift gets a rea...

Had a dream You and me and the war at the end times And I believe California succumbed to the fault line We heaved relief As scores of innocents died And the Andalusian tribes Setting the lay of Nebraska alight 'Til all the remains is the arms of the angel H...

Take a long drive with me on California One, on California One. And the road a-winding goes from golden gate to roaring cliff-side, and the light is softly low as our hearts become sweetly untied beneath the sun of California One. Take a long dram with me of...

you slept in your overalls after the wrecking ball bereft you of house and of home and left you with sweet fuck-all so we got in your car with our kickabout hearts and we hollered out 'sweet clementine' tell your mom to marry us a candle to carry us...

this cocoon, caught in vesuvius' shadow only the ashes remain and i waited there for you why couldn't you? here we lie waiting for something to startle to shake us from gravity's pull and so sleeping hours are through what can we do? the sorry conclusion, the...

O the minarets of Constantinople Are plated gold, ivory, and opal Their cupolas all onion domed and light. And the magistrate of Constantinople Has made a match; his family was hopeful Their daughter would be promised a wedding night. But the Sultan's weary...

Cut him up boy You've got to cut him up boy He's a wicked disgrace And he said it to your face You better cut him up boy Take him by the teeth Get him down on his knees With your hands all shaking That'll teach him how to take it Gotta cut him up boy And how...

Let's put our heads together and start a new country up Our father's father's father tried, erased the parts he didn't like Let's try to fill it in, bank the quarry river, swim We knee-skinned it you and me, we knee-skinned that river red This is where w...

Here we come to a turning of the season Witness to the arc towards the sun A neighbor's blessed burden within reason Becomes a burden borne of all and one And nobody, nobody knows Let the yoke fall from our shoulders Don't carry it all, don't carry it a...

See this ancient riverbed See where all our follies are led Down by the water down by the old main drag I was just some towhead teen Feeling around for fingers to get in between Down by the water down by the old main drag The season rubs me wrong The...

Lumber Jack had landed on his back Was badly on the medic when the riggy went slack Was a moonless night, the stars were leaning right Was leering in the mirror when the road went right You never really gonna know When the whistle's gonna blow You never...