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
I have snipped your wingspan,
My precious captive swan.
Here, all clipped of kickstand
Your spirit won't last long.
Don't you lift a finger.
Don't you snap and jaw.
Limber ...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - The Decemberists
Came upon a Tuesday when I had just got down to work
And everything went grey
So I took a bus Wednesday, thought a vacation well-deserved
And all my senses frayed
And all my ...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - The Decemberists
[Verse:]
So we already wrecked through the reservoir
And I've already lost my way
But feel entoombed in this cursed bar
For a day, anyway
So lay me out in the cover storm
And infe...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - The Decemberists
My mother was a Chinese trapeze artist
In pre-war Paris
Smuggling bombs for the underground.
And she met my father
At a fete in Aix-en-Provence.
He was disguised as a Russian cadet...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - The Decemberists
Myla Goldberg sets a steady hand upon her brow
Myla Goldberg hangs a crooked foot all upside down
It comes around it comes around it comes around it comes around (x2)
Pretty hands...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - The Decemberists