- 1
The Decemberists - Sons & Daughters
- 2
The Decemberists - Sucker's Prayer
- 3
The Decemberists - Lake Song
- 4
The Decemberists - Rise To Me
- 5
The Decemberists - The Crane Wife 1 and 2
- 6
The Decemberists - A Cautionary Song
- 7
The Decemberists - Cavalry Captain
- 8
The Decemberists - Don't Carry It All
- 9
The Decemberists - Down By The Water
- 10
The Decemberists - Here I Dreamt I Was An Architect
- 11
The Decemberists - Rox In The Box
- 12
The Decemberists - Severed
- 13
The Decemberists - All Arise!
- 14
The Decemberists - Burial Ground (feat. James Mercer)
- 15
The Decemberists - June Hymn
- 16
The Decemberists - Long White Veil
- 17
The Decemberists - Los Angeles, I'm Yours
- 18
The Decemberists - Make You Better
- 19
The Decemberists - Margaret In Captivity
- 20
The Decemberists - Ocenside
- 21
The Decemberists - One Engine
- 22
The Decemberists - Row Jimmy
- 23
The Decemberists - Sixteen Military Wives
- 24
The Decemberists - The Crane Wife 3
- 25
The Decemberists - The Engine Driver
- 26
The Decemberists - Till The Water's All Long Gone
- 27
The Decemberists - 12/17/12
- 28
The Decemberists - 16 By 32
- 29
The Decemberists - A Beginning Song
- 30
The Decemberists - A Bower Scene
- 31
The Decemberists - All I Want Is You
- 32
The Decemberists - America Made Me
- 33
The Decemberists - Angel, Won't You Call Me?
- 34
The Decemberists - Annan Water
- 35
The Decemberists - Anti-Summersong
- 36
The Decemberists - Apology Song
- 37
The Decemberists - As I Rise
- 38
The Decemberists - Ben Franklin's Song
- 39
The Decemberists - Better Not Wake The Baby
- 40
The Decemberists - Billy Liar
- 41
The Decemberists - Born to the Morning
- 42
The Decemberists - Bridges And Balloons
- 43
The Decemberists - Calamity Song
- 44
The Decemberists - California One
- 45
The Decemberists - California One / Youth And Beauty Brigade
- 46
The Decemberists - Carolina Low
- 47
The Decemberists - Clementine
- 48
The Decemberists - Cocoon
- 49
The Decemberists - Constantinople
- 50
The Decemberists - Cullin of the Fold
- 51
The Decemberists - Dear Avery
- 52
The Decemberists - Don't Go To the Woods
- 53
The Decemberists - Easy Come, Easy Go
- 54
The Decemberists - Eli, The Barrowboy
- 55
The Decemberists - Everything I Try To Do, Nothing Seems To Turn Out Right
- 56
The Decemberists - Foregone
- 57
The Decemberists - From My Own True Love (lost At Sea)
- 58
The Decemberists - Grace Cathedral Hill
- 59
The Decemberists - Human Behavior
- 60
The Decemberists - I
- 61
The Decemberists - I Don't Mind
- 62
The Decemberists - I Was Meant For The Stage
- 63
The Decemberists - II
- 64
The Decemberists - III
- 65
The Decemberists - Isn't It A Lovely Night?
- 66
The Decemberists - IV
- 67
The Decemberists - January Hymn
- 68
The Decemberists - Joan in the Garden
- 69
The Decemberists - Julianne
- 70
The Decemberists - July, July!
- 71
The Decemberists - Leslie Anne Levine
- 72
The Decemberists - Like A Lion
- 73
The Decemberists - Mistral
- 74
The Decemberists - My Mother Was a Chinese Trapeze Artist
- 75
The Decemberists - Never Satisfied
- 76
The Decemberists - O Valencia
- 77
The Decemberists - O Valencia!
- 78
The Decemberists - Oceanside
- 79
The Decemberists - Odalisque
- 80
The Decemberists - Of Angels And Angles
- 81
The Decemberists - Oh No!
- 82
The Decemberists - On The Bus Mall
- 83
The Decemberists - Once In My Life
- 84
The Decemberists - Philomena
- 85
The Decemberists - Please Daddy (Don't Get Drunk This Christmas)
- 86
The Decemberists - Record Year
- 87
The Decemberists - Red Right Ankle
- 88
The Decemberists - Riverswim
- 89
The Decemberists - Rusalka, Rusalka / Wild Rushes
- 90
The Decemberists - Shankill Butchers
- 91
The Decemberists - Shanty For The Arethusa
- 92
The Decemberists - Shiny
- 93
The Decemberists - Sleepless
- 94
The Decemberists - Song For The Myla Goldberg
- 95
The Decemberists - Summersong
- 96
The Decemberists - Sunshine
- 97
The Decemberists - Tell Me What's on Your Mind
- 98
The Decemberists - The Abduction Of Margaret
- 99
The Decemberists - The Apology Song
- 100
The Decemberists - The Bachelor And The Bride
- 101
The Decemberists - The Bagman's Gambit
- 102
The Decemberists - The Bandit Queen
- 103
The Decemberists - The Black Maria
- 104
The Decemberists - The Chimbley Sweep
- 105
The Decemberists - The Gymnast, High Above The Ground
- 106
The Decemberists - The Hazards Of Love (Revenge!)
- 107
The Decemberists - The Hazards Of Love 1 (The Prettiest Whistles Won't Wrestle The Thistles Undone)
- 108
The Decemberists - The Hazards Of Love 2 (Wager All)
- 109
The Decemberists - The Hazards Of Love 4 (The Drowned)
- 110
The Decemberists - The Infanta
- 111
The Decemberists - The Island
- 112
The Decemberists - The Island: Come and See, The Landlord's Daughter, You'll Not Feel the Drow
- 113
The Decemberists - The Kingdom Of Spain
- 114
The Decemberists - The Landlord's Daughter
- 115
The Decemberists - The Legionnaire's Lament
- 116
The Decemberists - The Mariner's Revenge Song
- 117
The Decemberists - The Perfect Crime 2
- 118
The Decemberists - The Queen's Rebuke / The Crossing
- 119
The Decemberists - The Rake's Song
- 120
The Decemberists - The Reapers
- 121
The Decemberists - The Singer Addresses His Audience
- 122
The Decemberists - The Soldiering Life
- 123
The Decemberists - The Sporting Life
- 124
The Decemberists - The Tain (Parts I, II, III, IV, V)
- 125
The Decemberists - The Wanting Comes in Waves / Repaid
- 126
The Decemberists - The Wrong Year
- 127
The Decemberists - This Is Why We Fight
- 128
The Decemberists - Traveling On
- 129
The Decemberists - V
- 130
The Decemberists - Valerie Plame
- 131
The Decemberists - VI
- 132
The Decemberists - We Both Go Down Together
- 133
The Decemberists - When the War Came
- 134
The Decemberists - Why Would I Now?
- 135
The Decemberists - William Fitzwilliam
- 136
The Decemberists - Won't Want For Love (Margaret In The Taiga)
- 137
The Decemberists - Wonder
- 138
The Decemberists - Yankee Bayonet (I Will Be Home Then)
- 139
The Decemberists - Youth and Beauty Brigade
The Mariner's Revenge Song
The Decemberists
Our ship's sole survivors
In this belly of a whale
It's ribs are ceiling beams
It's guts are 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
And I will relate to you
How our histories interweave
At the time you were
A rake and a roustabout
Spending all your money
On the whores and hounds
(Oh, oh)
You had a charming air
All cheap and debonair
My widowed mother found so sweet
And so she took you in
Her sheets still warm with him
Now filled with filth and foul disease
As time wore on you proved
A debt-ridden drunken mess
Leaving my mother
A poor consumptive wretch
(Oh, oh)
And then you disappeared
Your gambling arrears
The only thing you left behind
And then the magistrate
Reclaimed our small estate
And my poor mother lost her mind
Then, one day in spring
My dear sweet mother died
But, before she did
I took her hand as she, dying, cried
(Oh, oh)
Find him, bind him
Tie him to a pole and break
His fingers to splinters
Drag him to a hole until he
Wakes up naked
Clawing at the ceiling
Of his grave
It took me fifteen years
To swallow all my tears
Among the urchins in the street
Until a priory
Took pity and hired me
To keep their vestry nice and neat
But, never once in the employ
Of these holy men
Did I ever, once turn my mind
From the thought of revenge
(Oh, oh)
One night I overheard
The prior exchanging words
With a penitent whaler from the sea
The captain of his ship
Who matched you toe to tip
Was known for wanton cruelty
The following day
I shipped to sea
With a privateer
And in the whistle
Of the wind
I could almost hear
(Oh, oh)
Find him, bind him
Tie him to a pole and break
His fingers to splinters
Drag him to a hole until he
Wakes up naked
Clawing at the ceiling
Of his grave
There is one thing I must say to you
As you sail across the sea
Always, your mother will watch over you
As you avenge this wicked deed
And then, that fateful night
We had you in our sight
After twenty months, it seemed
Your starboard flank abeam
I was getting my muskets clean
When came this rumbling from beneath
The ocean shook
The sky went black
And the captain quailed
And before us grew
The angry jaws
Of a giant whale
(Oh)
Don't know how I survived
The crew all was chewed alive
I must have slipped between his teeth
But, oh, what providence
What divine intelligence
That you should survive
As well as me
It gives my eye great joy
To see your eyes fill with fear
To lean in close
And I will whisper
The last words you'll hear
(Oh, oh)