Genius Lyrics
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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 – Till the Water Is All Long Gone
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Frontman Colin Meloy picked this as one of The Decemberists' best songs in an interview, saying:
I think it’s going to be a deep cut; we’ll see how people take to it. It’s another
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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 – July, July!
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[Verse 1] / There is a road that meets the road / That goes to my house / And how it green grows there / And we've got special boots / To beat the path to my house / And it's
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The Decemberists – Rusalka, Rusalka / Wild Rushes
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“Rusalka, Rusalka/Wild Rushes” is a song that comprises two parts. Each section features the protagonist being enticed by a siren-like woman. In both parts, the protagonist
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The Decemberists – The Island: Come and See; The Landlord’s Daughter; You’ll Not Feel the Drowning
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This song is inspired by and about William Shakespeare’s play ‘the Tempest’.
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The Decemberists – The Island
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[The Island] / There's an island hidden in the sound / Lapping currents lay your boat to ground / Affix your barb and bayonet / The curlews carve their Arabesques / And sorrow
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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 – 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 – The Hazards of Love 3 (Revenge!)
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The Rake’s children return from the dead as ghosts to haunt him and presumably vanquish him.
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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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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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