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The Decemberists – A Beginning Song
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Ironically, the final song off of the Decemberist’s 2015 album What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful World is titled “A Beginning Song”.
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The Decemberists – Severed
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In an effort to ditch some of their older habits, The Decemberists went out and bought a ton of synthesizers. This song is the lead single off their 2018 album, “I’ll Be Your Girl
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The Decemberists – Philomena
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Colin Meloy described this as “the dirtiest Decemberists song ever written”.
It’s about cunnilingus.
I think this is my attempt of making a portrait — a bundling idea of what
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The Decemberists – The Rake's Song
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This is the tenth track off of The Decemberists' fifth album, The Hazards of Love. We’re introduced to a most unpleasant character, the murderous and amoral Rake. In the early 18th
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The Decemberists – June Hymn
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Here's a hymn to welcome in the day / Heralding a summer's early sway / And all the bulbs all coming in / To begin / The thrushes bleating battle with the wrens / Disrupts my
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The Decemberists – Make You Better
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The first single from the band’s seventh album, What A Terrible World, What A Beautiful World, released January 20, 2015.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yb8oUbMrydk
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The Decemberists – The Crane Wife 3
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“The Crane Wife 3” is the opening track to the Decemberists fourth album, The Crane Wife. It’s based on the Japanese folk tale, The Crane Wife. In the tale, a man finds and saves
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The Decemberists – Here I Dreamt I Was an Architect
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Frontman Colin Meloy picked this as one of The Decemberists' best songs in an interview, saying:
It was really groundbreaking for me at the time. I felt like it was a concise
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The Decemberists – Shiny
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This song appears to be about a visitor to a gypsy fair who falls for one of their girls.
She keeps swindling him, but he doesn’t care because he’s so taken by her features
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The Decemberists – Summersong
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[Verse 1] / Ramblin' / Where to begin? / I taste the summer on your peppery skin / Been saved / The warm of the waves / I felt a slip into a watery grave / [Refrain] / Oh-oh / Oh
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The Decemberists – Sons and Daughters
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Frontman Colin Meloy picked this as one of The Decemberists' best songs in an interview, saying:
It’s another two-chord song. It was the first song I ever wrote on [the Greek folk
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The Decemberists – Calamity Song
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Lead singer, Colin Meloy, told NPR’s World Cafe that this was their attempt at a disaster song.
The music video is noteworthy for being a dramatisation of scene from David Foster
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The Decemberists – The Mariner's Revenge Song
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“The Mariner’s Revenge Song” is from The Decemberists' third studio album, Picaresque, released in 2005. It’s a story of two mariners, who are the sole survivors of a monstrous
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The Decemberists – Down by the Water
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See this ancient riverbed / See where all the follies led / Down by the water and / Down by the old main drag / I was just some tow-head teen / Feeling round for fingers to get in
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The Decemberists – Sucker’s Prayer
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[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
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The Decemberists – The Infanta
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Here she comes in her palanquin / On the back of an elephant / On a bed made of linen and sequins and silk / All astride on her father's line / With the king and his concubines
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The Decemberists – When the War Came
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The song is the sixth track off the Decemberist album ‘Crane Wife’. It was inspired by actual events that happened in Russia during WWII and a book that told the story of botanist
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The Decemberists – Lake Song
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‘Lake Song’ seems to be a meta-Decemberist tune about a young boy who is unhappy about his lover’s/friend’s lack of response to a request. The overly literary word choice and hyper
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The Decemberists – Constantinople
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O, the minarets of Constantinople / Are plated gold, ivory and opal / Their cupolas all onion domed and light / And the magistrate of Constantinople / Has made a match; his family
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The Decemberists – Cocoon
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This cocoon, caught in Vesuvius' shadow / Only the ashes remain / And I waited there for you / Why couldn't you? / Here we lie waiting for something to startle / To shake us from
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The Decemberists – We Both Go Down Together
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Track #2 on 2005’s Picaresque, “We Both Go Down Together” is a song narrated by a man from the British upper class who is in a relationship with a poor peasant girl (Miranda). The
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The Decemberists – The Engine Driver
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Frontman Colin Meloy picked this as one of The Decemberists' best songs in an interview, saying:
It was a very quick write. It came out fully formed. I remember [Decemberists
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The Decemberists – The Tain
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This song is built up of legends featured in the Tain, and carries these legends throughout 5 parts, each part depicting another event in the great legend of Irish myhthology, the
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The Decemberists – The Perfect Crime #2
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Sing, muse, of the passion of the pistol / Sing, muse, of the warning by the whistle / On a night so dark in the waning / A dawn obscured by slate sky raining / Five and twenty
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The Decemberists – Odalisque
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They've come to find you, Odalisque / As the light dies horribly / On a fire escape you walk / All rare and resolved to drop / And when they find you, Odalisque / They will rend
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The Decemberists – O Valencia!
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O Valencia! has a plot not unlike that of Romeo and Juliet: Guy loves girl, girl loves guy, but their families are feuding, and alas, the girl dies.
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The Decemberists – Sleepless
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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's made me
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The Decemberists – I’ll Be Your Girl
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[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
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The Decemberists – The Wanting Comes in Waves/Repaid
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[Verse 1: Colin Meloy] / Mother, I can hear your footfall now / Soft disturbance in the dead fall, how / It precedes you like a black smoke pall / Still the wanting comes in waves
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The Decemberists – Starwatcher
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When asked to comment on the meaning of this song in a Reddit AMA, Colin said:
I think there are two figures – the starwatcher and the skywatcher and they’re both like wild
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The Decemberists – Don't Carry It All
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The first song on The King is Dead sets the tone for the rest of The Decemberists’s americana album both musically (with its acoustic guitar and mandolin and especially prominent
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The Decemberists – January Hymn
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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
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The Decemberists – A Cautionary Song
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There's a place your mother goes / When everybody else is soundly sleeping / Through the lights of Beacon Street / And if you listen, you can hear her weeping / She's weeping / '
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The Decemberists – Clementine
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You slept in your overalls / After the wrecking ball / Bereft you of house and home / And left you with sweet fuck-all / So we got in your car / With our kickabout hearts / And we
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The Decemberists (Ft. Laura Veirs) – Yankee Bayonet (I Will Be Home Then)
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This is the third song off of the Decemberist 2006 album ‘Crane Wife’. The song itself tells the story of a man who died during the Civil War. It has two different narrators; the
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The Decemberists – The Sporting Life
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I fell on the playing field / The work of an errant heel / The din of the crowd and the loud commotion / Went deafening silence and stopped emotion / The season was almost done
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The Decemberists – Eli, the Barrow Boy
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This song is a ghost story about Eli the Barrow Boy, who probably committed suicide by drowning himself after he lost his beloved – likely to some disease. The narrator in the
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