I Was Meant For The Stage The Decemberists

I was meant for the stage I was meant for the curtain I was meant to tread these boards Of this much I am certain I was meant for the crowd I was meant for the shouting I was meant to raise these hands

The Crane Wife 1, 2, And 3 The Decemberists

It was a cold night And the snow lay low 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

The Crane Wife 1, 2, And 3 (Live) The Decemberists

[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

January Hymn The Decemberists

On a winter Sunday I go To clear away the snow And green the ground below April all an ocean away Is this the better way to spend the day?

Rox In The Box (Live) The Decemberists

creaks and moans And it's one, two, three on the wrong side of the lee What were you meant for?

Rox In The Box The Decemberists

If the rocks in the box Get the water right down to your socks This bulkhead's built of fallen brother and bones We all do what we can We endure our fellow man And we sing our songs to the headframe's

The Rake's Song The Decemberists

The Rake: 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!

The Rake's Song (Live) The Decemberists

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

The Bagman's Gambit The Decemberists

On the lam from the law On the steps of the Capitol You shot a plainclothes cop on the ten o'clock And I saw momentarily They flashed a photograph, it couldn't be you You'd been abused so horribly But

Till The Water's All Long Gone The Decemberists

They came down from the mound They exchanged to on from the fountain And all the while All the while they longed for us But I won't betray you I won't betray you I won't betray you I won't No I won't betray

Grace Cathedral Hill The Decemberists

"Grace cathedral hill All wrapped in bones of setting sun All dust and stone and moribund I paid twenty-five cents to light a little white candle For a new year's day I sat and watched it burn away

Valerie Plame The Decemberists

Oh, Valerie Plame, if that really is your name I will shout the same to the world Dear Valerie Plame, so they made a wreck of you Well, give me the rest of you, and I'll get the world But you were just

Easy Come, Easy Go The Decemberists

Limber Jack, he landed on his back Was bedding on the netting when the rigging went slack Was a moonless night, the stars all lending light She's leering in the mirror when the rodent rode right Cause

The Mariner's Revenge Song The Decemberists

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

O Valencia！ The Decemberists

agree I'm your brother's sworn enemy But I'll shout out my love to the stars 내 식구들은 반대하지 난 네 오빠의 적 그래도 나는 별들에게 내 사랑을 외치지 So wait for the stone on your window, your window Wait by the car and

O New England The Decemberists

We’d come seven hours down Took the blue line to see where we hopped out And I was only joking, I was only joking And I was only trying to get a laugh You say this was the furthest that we had come We

Down By The Water (Live) The Decemberists

See this ancient riverbed See where all the follies led Down by the water and Down by the old main drag I was just some towhead teen Feeling round for fingers to get in between Down by the water

Down By The Water The Decemberists

See this ancient riverbed See where all the follies led Down by the water and Down by the old main drag I was just some towhead teen Feeling round for fingers to get in between Down by the water

Cavalry Captain The Decemberists

I am the cavalry captain I am the remedy to your heart I am the carbon collected I am the printing upon your stars And when you sharp shine your eyes Looking lost, looking bright Wheel away on the light

June Hymn (Live) The Decemberists

the line Training jasmine how to vine Up the arbor to your door And more Standing on the landing with the war You shouldered all the night before But once upon it The yellow bonnets Garland all

June Hymn The Decemberists

the line Training jasmine how to vine Up the arbor to your door, and more Standing on the landing with the war You shouldered all the night before And once upon it The yellow bonnets Garland all

Philomena The Decemberists

to your boredom, if only you'll let me go Down, down down Long sunny days can lead to lazy vices Boys all at idle, left to their own devices Open up your linen lap and let me go Down, down, down All I

Carolina Low The Decemberists

I am a boy From the high country And I've got a little love For the offering I come down from the mountain Bow to the sea And Carolina low I will carry thee Gonna take you up Gonna take you 'round Well

Make You Better The Decemberists

I want you, thin fingers I wanted you, thin fingernails And when you bend backwards I wanted you, I needed you Oh oh, to make me better I'll love you in springtime I lost you when summer came And when

The Infanta The Decemberists

of liquors and milk And we'll all come praise The Infanta And we'll all come praise The Infanta Among five score pachyderm Each canopied and passengered Sit the duke and the duchess' luscious young girls

We Both Go Down Together (Live) The Decemberists

Here on these cliffs of Dover So high you cant see over And while your head is spinning Hold tight, its just beginning You come from parents wanton A childhood rough and rotten I come from wealth

We Both Go Down Together The Decemberists

"Here on these cliffs of Dover So high you can't see over And while your head is spinning Hold tight, it's just beginning You come from parents wanton A childhood rough and rotten I come from wealth

The Wrong Year The Decemberists

Gray Jane was a riverchild Born down by the river wild Said hey what I wanna be Nobody's gonna intervene And she wants you but you won't do And it won't leave you alone And the rain falls on the wrong

Eli, The Barrow Boy The Decemberists

Eli, the barrow boy Of the old town Sells coal and marigolds And he cries out All down the day Below the tamaracks He is crying: “Corn cobs and candle wax for the buying” All down the day “Would

Opera House Cigarettes After Sex

Built an opera house for you in the deepest jungle And I walked across its stage singing with my eyes closed I've got a love for you I just can't escape All of my love for you cuts me like barbed

Oceanside (Live) The Decemberists

Sweet Annabelle As seen reclining on an ocean swell As the waves do lather up to lay her down Until shes fast and sleeping Oh, well I guess Im something of a neer-do-well Who fell asleep at the pealing

Oceanside The Decemberists

Sweet Anabelle As seen reclining on an ocean swell As the waves do lather up to lay her down 'Til she's fast and sleeping Oh well I guess I'm something of a ne'er-do-well Who fell asleep at the pealing

Leslie Ann Levine (Live) The Decemberists

My name is Leslie Anne Levine My mother birthed me down a dry revine My mother birthed me far too soon Born at nine and dead at noon Fifteen years gone now I still wander this parapet And shake

Leslie Ann Levine The Decemberists

My name is Leslie Anne Levine My mother birthed me down a dry ravine My mother birthed me far too soon Born at nine and dead at noon Fifteen years gone now, I still wander this parapet And shake my rattled

12/17/12 The Decemberists

what a gift you can give me Here with my heart so whole while others may be grieving Think of their grieving And oh my boy Don't you know you are dear to me You are a breath of life and a light upon the

Billy Liar The Decemberists

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?

Stage Live

I wanna feel I wanna try I wanna rock in the city tonight I wanna deal don't wanna die I wanna bring my captain hook into the light people I've seen my day ranting and raving this beauty away

The Singer Addresses His Audience The Decemberists

We know, we know, we belong to ya We know you built your life around us Would we change, we had to change some We know, we know, we belong to ya We know you grew your arms around us And the hopes we wouldn't

Mistral The Decemberists

So we already wrecked the rental car And I've already lost my way But feet entombed in this cursed bar For a day, anyway So lay me down on the cobblestone And then furrow this aching jet The streets are

A Beginning Song The Decemberists

Let's commence to coordinate our sights And 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 If I am waiting, should

Lake Song The Decemberists

Down by the lake We were overturning pebbles And upending all the animals alight And I took a drag From your cigarette and pinched it 'Tween my finger and my thumb Till it died And the sun burned low on

The Soldiering Life The Decemberists

Ambling madly all over the town The call to arms you likened to a whisper I likened to a radio You were a brickbat, a Bowery tough, so rough They culled you from a cartoon Pulled out of your pantaloons

The Soldiering Life (Live) The Decemberists

Ambling madly all over the town The call to arms, youre likened to a whisper I liken to a radio You were a brick bag a bowery tough, so rough They called you from a cartoon Pulled out of your pantaloons

Better Not Wake The Baby The Decemberists

Kick a hole in the hallway While singing like a painted lady Use your skull like a cannonball But it better not wake the baby How long will this go on How long, indeed You can bang a drum 'till the money's

Dear Avery The Decemberists

Dear Avery I think of you only Were you waving Were you dead on the vine?

Calamity Song The Decemberists

Had a dream You and me and the war of 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

Rise To Me (Live) The Decemberists

Big mountain, wide river, theres an ancient call, these tree trunks these stream beds, leave our bellies full they sing out, I am gonna stand my ground you rise to me and Ill blow you down I am gonna

Rise To Me The Decemberists

Big mountain, wide river, there's an ancient call, these tree trunks these stream beds, leave our bellies full they sing out, I am gonna stand my ground you rise to me and I'll blow you down I am

The Crane Wife 3 The Decemberists

And under the boughs unbowed All clothed in a snowy shroud She had no heart so hardened All under the boughs unbowed Each feather it fell from skin Till threadbare while she grew thin How were

Sonnet The Decemberists

Guido, I wish that you and Lapo and I Could be taken by magic and placed in a boat Where every rising swell Would sweep us at our will across the sky Then tempest never, or weather dire Could ever make