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The Decemberists - Sons & Daughters
- 2
The Decemberists - Rox In The Box
- 3
The Decemberists - Lake Song
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The Decemberists - Dear Avery
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The Decemberists - The Mariner's Revenge Song
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The Decemberists - This Is Why We Fight
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The Decemberists - Cullin of the Fold
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The Decemberists - Don't Carry It All
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The Decemberists - Don't Go To the Woods
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The Decemberists - Easy Come, Easy Go
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The Decemberists - Foregone
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The Decemberists - Isn't It A Lovely Night?
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The Decemberists - January Hymn
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The Decemberists - July, July!
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The Decemberists - June Hymn
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The Decemberists - Ocenside
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The Decemberists - On The Bus Mall
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The Decemberists - Once In My Life
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The Decemberists - Please Daddy (Don't Get Drunk This Christmas)
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The Decemberists - Rise To Me
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The Decemberists - Severed
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The Decemberists - Song For The Myla Goldberg
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The Decemberists - Sucker's Prayer
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The Decemberists - The Wanting Comes in Waves / Repaid
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The Decemberists - Valerie Plame
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The Decemberists - 12/17/12
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The Decemberists - 16 By 32
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The Decemberists - All Arise!
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The Decemberists - All I Want Is You
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The Decemberists - Apology Song
- 31
The Decemberists - Ben Franklin's Song
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The Decemberists - Better Not Wake The Baby
- 33
The Decemberists - Billy Liar
- 34
The Decemberists - Calamity Song
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The Decemberists - California One
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The Decemberists - Cavalry Captain
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The Decemberists - Grace Cathedral Hill
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The Decemberists - Here I Dreamt I Was An Architect
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The Decemberists - Julianne
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The Decemberists - Leslie Anne Levine
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The Decemberists - Make You Better
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The Decemberists - My Mother Was a Chinese Trapeze Artist
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The Decemberists - Never Satisfied
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The Decemberists - O Valencia
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The Decemberists - Philomena
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The Decemberists - Riverswim
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The Decemberists - Row Jimmy
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The Decemberists - Sleepless
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The Decemberists - Summersong
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The Decemberists - Sunshine
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The Decemberists - The Bagman's Gambit
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The Decemberists - The Bandit Queen
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The Decemberists - The Black Maria
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The Decemberists - The Crane Wife 1 and 2
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The Decemberists - The Crane Wife 3
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The Decemberists - The Gymnast, High Above The Ground
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The Decemberists - The Hazards Of Love 4 (The Drowned)
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The Decemberists - The Island
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The Decemberists - The Island: Come and See, The Landlord's Daughter, You'll Not Feel the Drow
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The Decemberists - The Landlord's Daughter
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The Decemberists - The Legionnaire's Lament
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The Decemberists - The Sporting Life
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The Decemberists - The Wrong Year
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The Decemberists - V
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The Decemberists - We Both Go Down Together
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The Decemberists - Why Would I Now?
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The Decemberists - William Fitzwilliam
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The Decemberists - Won't Want For Love (Margaret In The Taiga)
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The Decemberists - Wonder
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The Decemberists - Yankee Bayonet (I Will Be Home Then)
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The Decemberists - Youth and Beauty Brigade
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The Decemberists - A Beginning Song
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The Decemberists - A Bower Scene
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The Decemberists - A Cautionary Song
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The Decemberists - America Made Me
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The Decemberists - Angel, Won't You Call Me?
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The Decemberists - Annan Water
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The Decemberists - Anti-Summersong
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The Decemberists - As I Rise
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The Decemberists - Born to the Morning
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The Decemberists - Bridges And Balloons
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The Decemberists - Burial Ground (feat. James Mercer)
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The Decemberists - California One / Youth And Beauty Brigade
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The Decemberists - Carolina Low
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The Decemberists - Clementine
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The Decemberists - Cocoon
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The Decemberists - Constantinople
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The Decemberists - Down By The Water
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The Decemberists - Eli, The Barrowboy
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The Decemberists - Everything I Try To Do, Nothing Seems To Turn Out Right
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The Decemberists - From My Own True Love (lost At Sea)
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The Decemberists - Human Behavior
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The Decemberists - I
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The Decemberists - I Don't Mind
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The Decemberists - I Was Meant For The Stage
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The Decemberists - II
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The Decemberists - III
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The Decemberists - IV
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The Decemberists - Joan in the Garden
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The Decemberists - Like A Lion
- 101
The Decemberists - Long White Veil
- 102
The Decemberists - Los Angeles, I'm Yours
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The Decemberists - Margaret In Captivity
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The Decemberists - Mistral
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The Decemberists - O Valencia!
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The Decemberists - Oceanside
- 107
The Decemberists - Odalisque
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The Decemberists - Of Angels And Angles
- 109
The Decemberists - Oh No!
- 110
The Decemberists - One Engine
- 111
The Decemberists - Record Year
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The Decemberists - Red Right Ankle
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The Decemberists - Rusalka, Rusalka / Wild Rushes
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The Decemberists - Shankill Butchers
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The Decemberists - Shanty For The Arethusa
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The Decemberists - Shiny
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The Decemberists - Sixteen Military Wives
- 118
The Decemberists - Tell Me What's on Your Mind
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The Decemberists - The Abduction Of Margaret
- 120
The Decemberists - The Apology Song
- 121
The Decemberists - The Bachelor And The Bride
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The Decemberists - The Chimbley Sweep
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The Decemberists - The Engine Driver
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The Decemberists - The Hazards Of Love (Revenge!)
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The Decemberists - The Hazards Of Love 1 (The Prettiest Whistles Won't Wrestle The Thistles Undone)
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The Decemberists - The Hazards Of Love 2 (Wager All)
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The Decemberists - The Infanta
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The Decemberists - The Kingdom Of Spain
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The Decemberists - The Perfect Crime 2
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The Decemberists - The Queen's Rebuke / The Crossing
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The Decemberists - The Rake's Song
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The Decemberists - The Reapers
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The Decemberists - The Singer Addresses His Audience
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The Decemberists - The Soldiering Life
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The Decemberists - The Tain (Parts I, II, III, IV, V)
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The Decemberists - Till The Water's All Long Gone
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The Decemberists - Traveling On
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The Decemberists - VI
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The Decemberists - When the War Came
The Tain (Parts I, II, III, IV, V)
The Decemberists
crone: here upon this pillow
made of reed and willow
you're a fickle little twister
are you sweet on your sister?
your phallo won't leave you alone.
and granted for their pleasure
possesions laid to measure
she's a salty little pisser
with your cock in her kisser
but now she's a will of her own.
PART II
husband: damn your ankles and eyes wide
from you fingernails to your ponytails too.
king of the insects and the m-5
over charlemagne in a motorcade too.
and baby needs a new prize
baby needs a new and shiny prize.
captain: in this place called heavenly
you were born here.
this place called heavenly
you were born here.
you were born here.
husband: and now all the marchers descend from high
i will dedicate all of my awakenings to this.
and damn all the angles that opress my sight
i will bleed your heart through a samovar soon.
captain: in this place called heavenly
you were born here.
this place called heavenly
you were born here.
you were born here.
PART III
soldier: they settled dust in your hair
to watch you shake and shout it out.
with our armaments bared
we shed our bags and travel alls.
from the lee of the wall
he comes in the chang and the chariot
and all his eunuchs in thrall
can scarce lift his line and lariat.
here com loose his hounds
to blow me down.
chorus of waifs: blow me down.
soldier: on this stretch of ground
i'll lay me down.
chorus of waifs: lay me down.
soldier: to sleep.
chaplain: and now stricken with pangs
that tear at our backs like thistle down
the mirror's soft silver tain
reflects our last and birthing hour
soldier: here com loose his hounds
to blow me down.
chorus of waifs: blow me down.
soldier: on this stretch of ground
i'll lay me down.
chorus of waifs: lay me down.
soldier: to sleep.
PART IV
evening
widow: o the wind is blowing, it hurts your skin
as you climb up hillside, forest and fen.
your arms full of lullabies, orchids and wine
your memories wrapped within paper and twine.
the room that you lie in is dusty and hard
sleeping soft babies on piles of yards
of gingham, taffeta, cotton and silk
your dry hungry mouths cry for your mother's milk.
when the dawn commes to greet you, you'll rise with clothes on
and advance with the others, singing old songs
of cattle and maidens and withered old queens.
let the music carry you on.
the room that you lie in is dusty and hard
sleeping soft babies on piles of yards
of gingham, taffeta, cotton and silk
your dry hungry mouths cry for your mother's milk.
PART V
woman: darling dear what have you done?
your clothes are town, your make-up runs.
daughter: i ran through brambles, blooming thistle
i washed my face in the river when you whistled me on.
woman: darling dear, what hav eyou done?
your hands and face are smeared with blood.
daughter: the chaplain came and called me out
to beat and to butcher his mother's sow
woman: but darling dear, they found him dead
this morning on the riverbed.
but hush now darling, don't you cry.
your reward's in the sweet by-and -by.
hush now baby, don't you cry.
your reward's in the sweet by-and-by.
crone: and now we've seen your powers
softly stretch the hours
you're a fickle little twister
are you sweet on your sister?
as now you go wandering home.