Rusalka, Rusalka your arms out of water
Your hair like an alien bloom
Dark-eyed Rusalka, your brow tressed in flowers
Pale in a liminal moon
And all that you are is a star on t...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - 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 weathe...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - The Decemberists
By the bumper cars
In the pretty twining light
I may have gone too far
I may have gone too much, too long
I'm a dull and witless boy
At the after bars
Think I was sullied by a dre...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - The Decemberists
As you lie before me now, like a shadow
On a pea green sea
Never thought that I could find you so hollow
Laying into me
But this cup of wine
All salt and brine makes me slee...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - The Decemberists
We set to sail on a packet full of spice, rum and tea-leaves.
We've emptied out all the bars and the bowery hotels.
Tell your daughters do not walk the streets alone tonight
Tell y...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - The Decemberists
Starwatcher, starwatcher in the night
Starwatcher, starwatcher bend the light
There's a rider on the road
There's calamity a-waiting to unfold
There is poison in the well
Th...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - The Decemberists
When we arrive, sons & daughters
We'll make our homes on the water
We'll build our walls of aluminum
We'll fill our mouths with cinnamon now
These currents pull us 'cross the bord...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - The Decemberists
[Verse 1]
I was not ready for the road
I was so discontent to wear that heavy load
And so I got down on my knees
Made a sucker's prayer
Like Rimbaud to Baudelaire before
[V...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - The Decemberists
On the lawn before the bouquet fell
Long before we hear the ringing bell
When all I want is a good look at your underside
Reading Tress like it was judy blume
Your paperbacks are s...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - The Decemberists
Rambling, where to begin?
I tasted summer on your peppery skin
Been saved, the warm of the waves
I felt a slip into a watery grave
My girl, linen and curls
Lips parting like a fla...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - The Decemberists