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 wa...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - The Decemberists
[Verse 1]
When the summer days live to bore you
And the river lies long before you
And the one that you love ignores you
I'll be your girl
[Verse 2]
Like a senator works a ...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - The Decemberists
*Lyrics don't start until about 40 seconds in*
Isn't it a lovely night?
And so alight, with fireflies
Providing us their holy light
And here we made a bed of boughs
And thistle dow...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - 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?
Keeping the winter at bay
What were th...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - The Decemberists
There is a road that meets the road
That goes to my house
And how the green grows there
And we've got special boots
To beat the path to my house
And it's careful and it's careful w...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - The Decemberists
Hear the hymn to welcome in the day
Heralding a summer's early sway
And all the bulbs all coming in, to begin
Thrushs' bleeding battle with the wrens
Disrupts my reverie again
Peg...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - The Decemberists
[Verse:]
Down by the lake we were over turning pebbles and depending
All the animals alive
And I took a drag from your cigarette and I pinched it 'tween my finger and my thumb
To ...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - 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 par...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - The Decemberists
There is a city by the sea
A gentle company
I don't suppose you want to
And as it tells it's sorry tale
In harrowing detail
Its hollowness will haunt you
Its streets and boulevards...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - 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...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - The Decemberists