The Decemberists piosenki

As the sun is sinking low and the evening's tucked in tow On the horizon, my true love I see. She ain't fancy, she ain't fine While her fingers number only nine She's the belle of the ball of the insurgency. She's my Bandit Queen, lain beneath the moon In a b...

I am a chimbley, a chimbley sweep No bed to lie, no shoes to hold my feet Upon the rooftops in dead of night You’ll hear me cry, I’ll shake you from your sleep To hear me weep "Your day will come indeed For I am a poor and a wretched boy A chimbley chimbley s...

[1] It was a cold night And the snow lay around I pulled my coat tight Against the falling down And the sun was all And the sun was all down And the sun was all And the sun was all down I am a poor man I haven't wealth nor fame I have my two hands And a hous...

And under the boughs unbowed All clothed in the snowy shroud She had no heart so hardened All under the boughs unbowed Each feather it fell from skin Till thread bare while she grew thin How were my eyes so blinded? Each feather it fell from skin And...

I'm an engine driver On a long run, on a long run Would I were beside her She's a long one, such a long one And if you don't love me let me go And if you don't love me let me go I'm a county lineman On the high line, on the high line So will be my grandson T...

The gymnast, high above the ground, Limbers up and falls, tender, down. Ankles splayed and all tied, The gymnast long has arrived. Lazy, your long sister lays Waiting out this long light brigade. Prayed for snow a long time, And, lazy, it long has arrived. Th...

My true love went riding out in white and green and gray past the pale of office wall where she was want to stray and there she came upon a white and wounded faun Singing Oh, oh the hazards of love she, being full of charity, a credit to her sex s...

And here I am softer than a shower and here I am to garland you with flowers to lay you down in clover bed the stars a roof above our heads and all my life I never felt the tremor and all my life that now disturbs my fingers I lay you down in c...

Father I'm not feeling well the flowers me you fed Tasted spoiled for suddenly I find that I am dead But father don't you fear your children all are here singing ooooh the hazards of love Father turn the water down the basins overflown the water cove...

Margaret arrayed the rocks around the hull before it was sinking, A million stones, a million bones, a million holes within the chinking. And painting rings around your eyes these peppered holes so filled with crying. A whisper weighed upon the tattered do...

Here she comes in her palanquin on the back of an elephant on a bed made of linen and sequins and silk all astride on her father's line with the king and his concubines and her nurse with her pitchers of liquors and milk and we'll all come praise the infanta a...

[Come and See] There's an island hidden in the sound Lapping currents lay your boat to ground Fix your barb and bayonet The curlews carve their Arabesques And sorrow fills the silence all around Come and see There's a harbor lost within the reeds A jetty cau...

In the Kingdom of Spain There are such colours They defy any name Like drab and dolor But oh the King and the Queen of Spain With their long unpronounceable names Grace the table at the long lost Kingdom of Spain In the Kingdom of Light A lithe young lawyer T...

I'm a legionnaire Camel in disrepair hoping for a frigidaire to come passing by I am on reprieve lacking my joie de vivre missing my gay paris in this desert dry And I wrote my girl told her I would not return I've terribly taken a turn for the worst now I fe...

We are two mariners Our ships' sole survivors In this belly of a whale Its ribs our ceiling beams Its guts our carpeting I guess we have some time to kill You may not remember me I was a child of three And you, a lad of eighteen But I remember you...

Two, three, four! I got a gun, I got a girl I got a bullet-proof plan to pull The perfect crime I got the perfect crime I got a warehouse down at the docks I got fifteen precincts of cops bought The perfect crime I got the perfect crime You got to get your...

Sing, muse, of the passion of the pistol Sing, muse, of the warning by the whistle On a night so dark in the waning A dawn obscured by slight sky raining Five and twenty burglars by the reservoir A teenage lookout on the signal tower The mogul's daughter in h...

I'm Made of bones of the branches The boughs and the brow-beating light While my feet are the trunks And my head is the canopy high And my fingers extend to the leaves and the eaves and the (bright?) Might I shine? It's my shine (child?) He Was...

-The Queen- I'm made of bones of the branches the boughs and the bough beating light well my feet are the trunks, my head is the canopy and my fingers extend to the leaves in the eves and a bright, brighter shine It's my shine and he was a baby abando...

I had entered into a marriage In the summer of my twenty-first year And the bells rang for our wedding Only now do I remember it clear Alright, alright, alright No more a rake and no more a bachelor I was wedded and it whetted my thirst Until her womb start s...