Genius Lyrics
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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 – Dear Avery
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Dear Avery, I think of you only / Were you waving, were you dead on the vine? / Oh Avery, to think of you lonely / I could just grab you by the nape of your neck / There are times
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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 – 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 – Los Angeles, I'm Yours
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[Verse 1] / There is a city by the sea, a gentle company / I don't suppose you want to / And as it tells its sorry tale in harrowing detail / Its hollowness will haunt you / [
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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 – All Arise!
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This song is about someone the narrator loves, who has been let down time and again by the people they put their trust into. This has made the subject of the song weary of
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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 – Rise to Me
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Frontman Colin Meloy picked this as one of The Decemberists' best songs in an interview, saying:
It best sums up what we were trying to do on that record, drawing from a more
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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 – Rox in the Box
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This song memorializes the Granite Mountain disaster of 1917, and references the Butte, Montana mining scene from 1910-1920 in general. In an interview with UK’s The Guardian
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The Decemberists – This Is Why We Fight
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From a 2010 article in Spin:
The track closes with a raw recording of a woman singing about her dog running through a field, accompanied by banjo and harmonica. It sounds like an
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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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