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The Decemberists Lyrics, Songs, Albums And More
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The Decemberists – January Hymn · January Hymn · Bleakness of January with spring feeling far away, paralleled with being alone while a significant other is ...
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The Decemberists - Sons and Daughters Lyrics
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The song is not meant to represent any single time period. Rather, it is meant to gather the hopes and optimism of all the pilgrims and pioneers through many ...
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The Decemberists - The Rake's Song Lyrics
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This song is about a man who gets married early in age. He thought it was a good idea, until his wife started having children. There were three, Isaiah, ...
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The Decemberists - Cocoon Lyrics
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This song is about the shock in the aftermath of 9/11, metaphorically feeling as if you're in a cocoon. "Caught in Vesuvias' shadow/only the ashes remain" ...
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The Decemberists - The Engine Driver Lyrics
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There aren't many things that'll hurt more than giving love a chance against your better judgement only to have your heart crushed yet again. Ed Sheeran tells ...
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The Decemberists - Philomena Lyrics
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To me, this song is about a young male soldier who was drafted to fight in a war. He saw terrible things, as one does in wartime, and by the end of it he is ...
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The Decemberists - The Infanta Lyrics
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This song is about the beginning of a new legend: this child was, probably for some grave reason, set afloat and has been rescued by the royal family. Now she ...
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The Decemberists - Rise to Me Lyrics
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The song is about perseverance and love. The first stanza takes an environmentalist stance and says that the nature that provided for us will eventually reclaim ...
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The Decemberists - Sixteen Military Wives Lyrics
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In general, it highlights the danger of hidden agendas, manipulation, and distraction, serving as a critique of those who exploit chaos and confusion to control ...
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The Decemberists - Calamity Song Lyrics
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Basically the premise of the song is a guy dreaming of Mexico conquering America while a conservative politician lady is trying to fix things, but the public ...
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The Decemberists - Down by the Water Lyrics
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This song seems to be about someone pressuring a woman sexually, possibly raping her. It is told from the perspective of the perpetrator, who feels guilty about ...
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The Decemberists - A Beginning Song Lyrics
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These lyrics speak to the incredible pain one can feel wanting a lover to let go of all the walls and barriers that cut deep intimacy from happening two people.
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The Decemberists - Lake Song Lyrics
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In simple terms, this is unknown or unreturned love coming at that time when we still are learning what love really is. The singer (guessing this is a Colin ...
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The Decemberists - June Hymn Lyrics
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The song is written from the point of view of a woman who is in her garden. Someone, perhaps her son, was in a war - that's why there are yellow bonnets on the ...
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The Decemberists - Red Right Ankle Lyrics
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The song, Red right ankle, means the connection between two people that is irritated by the actual life they live. He might have chosen the ankle because it ...
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The Decemberists - Shiny Lyrics
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The song is about a boy falling in love for the first time at a carnival, and he believed at first that his lover was just as inexperienced as he was, but she ...
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The Decemberists - Sleepless Lyrics
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I imagine this to be a son watching his cruel father pass away. He's asking him if the pain he inflicted on him was his only way to express love. Sleepless ...
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The Decemberists - The Sporting Life Lyrics
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Ed Sheeran tells a story of unsuccessfully trying to feel “Amazing.” This track is about the being weighed down by emotional stress despite valiant attempts to ...
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The Decemberists - The Crane Wife 3 Lyrics
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This song is about the last part of the story of folk tale of The Crane Wife when the husband's curiosity gets the better of him and he has to look in on his ...
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The Decemberists - A Cautionary Song Lyrics
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In general, it highlights the danger of hidden agendas, manipulation, and distraction, serving as a critique of those who exploit chaos and confusion to control ...
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The Decemberists - The Perfect Crime #2 Lyrics
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Ed Sheeran tells a story of unsuccessfully trying to feel “Amazing.” This track is about the being weighed down by emotional stress despite valiant attempts to ...
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The Decemberists - Odalisque Lyrics
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An odalisque is literally a Turkish sultan's concubine, and the Odalisque in the song is not far removed from the actual definition. Abandoned, orphaned, or ...
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The Decemberists - Raincoat Song Lyrics
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It's a sweet, delicate metaphor for all those people who are trying to protect themselves from harm but, eventually can't. And they see their lives passing ...
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The Decemberists - The Bachelor and the Bride Lyrics
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In general, it highlights the danger of hidden agendas, manipulation, and distraction, serving as a critique of those who exploit chaos and confusion to control ...
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The Decemberists - O Valencia! Lyrics
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This is a good summary of the song. This boring, "perfect" life foisted upon us by some higher powers (not spiritual, but political, economic, etc. politicians ...
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The Decemberists - O Valencia! Lyrics
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This is a good summary of the song. This boring, "perfect" life foisted upon us by some higher powers (not spiritual, but political, economic, etc. politicians ...
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The Decemberists - Dear Avery Lyrics
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The track speaks of where the mind goes at the most desperate & desolate of times, when it just about slips away to all but disconnect itself, and the aftermath ...
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The Decemberists - July, July! Lyrics
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Ed Sheeran sings about missing his former partner and learning important life lessons in the process on “Punchline.” This track tells a story of battling to get ...
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The Decemberists - Here I Dreamt I Was an Architect Lyrics
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To me, this song is about how he can just never love anyone fully and foremost. His more of a violent pleasure seeker (And just to lay with you there's nothing ...
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The Decemberists - January Hymn Lyrics
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More Featured Meanings ... This is about bronies. They communicate by stomping. ... This song is written as the perspective of the boys in the street, as a whole, ...
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The Decemberists - Of Angels and Angles Lyrics
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"There are angels in your angles / There's a low moon caught in your tangles" is difficult -- I think it means that there is beauty in your figure, and there's ...
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The Decemberists - Oceanside Lyrics
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In general, it highlights the danger of hidden agendas, manipulation, and distraction, serving as a critique of those who exploit chaos and confusion to control ...
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The Decemberists - On the Bus Mall Lyrics
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This is a good summary of the song. This boring, "perfect" life foisted upon us by some higher powers (not spiritual, but political, economic, etc. politicians ...
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The Decemberists - A Record Year for Rainfall Lyrics
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"The song was sort of written in the fall, there was alot of rain, and a record year for rainfall being kind of a metaphor for one's disposition over the course ...
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The Decemberists - The Apology Song Lyrics
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The Decemberists ... I'm really sorry, Steven, but your bicycle's been stolen. I was watching it for you 'til you came back in the fall. I guess I didn't do such ...
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The Decemberists - Clementine Lyrics
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Obviously this song is telling of a young relationship and despite social constraints such as people telling them that they cannot be in love, they love each ...
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The Decemberists - Rox in the Box Lyrics
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Ed Sheeran tells a story of unsuccessfully trying to feel “Amazing.” This track is about the being weighed down by emotional stress despite valiant attempts to ...
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The Decemberists - Severed Lyrics
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This song is about a devil. He is looking to separate the children of God from what they need to gain eternal life. He is looking to let cancer take root but ...
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The Decemberists - Eli, the Barrow Boy Lyrics
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Ed Sheeran tells a story of unsuccessfully trying to feel “Amazing.” This track is about the being weighed down by emotional stress despite valiant attempts to ...
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The Decemberists - Rusalka, Rusalka/Wild Rushes Lyrics
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4 Comments ... A rusalka is a spirit of a woman who died in water. Either by accident, suicide, or murder. They use their beauty and their promises of skinny- ...
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The Decemberists - As I Rise Lyrics
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Ed Sheeran tells a story of unsuccessfully trying to feel “Amazing.” This track is about the being weighed down by emotional stress despite valiant attempts to ...
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The Decemberists - Annan Water Lyrics
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In general, it highlights the danger of hidden agendas, manipulation, and distraction, serving as a critique of those who exploit chaos and confusion to control ...
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The Decemberists - The Crane Wife 1 and 2 Lyrics
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These lyrics are pretty straight forward to me, probably because I remember being read "The Crane Wife", or a story close to it, in grade school. Basically, a ...
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The Decemberists - Summersong Lyrics
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"And summer arrives with a length of light And summer blows away and quietly gets swallowed by a wave" Summer always seems to pass much more quickly than it ...
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The Decemberists - The Soldiering Life Lyrics
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The track speaks of where the mind goes at the most desperate & desolate of times, when it just about slips away to all but disconnect itself, and the aftermath ...
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The Decemberists - Billy Liar Lyrics
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talks about how the lady who is in his dream is asking him to stay (in his dream' with her. She wants him to stay until the radio plays a familiar song which ...
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The Decemberists - We Both Go Down Together Lyrics
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That song was about, in short, an aborted child whose ghost still haunts the general vicinity of her death. She is in love with the ghost of a chimney sweep, ...
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The Decemberists - Grace Cathedral Hill Lyrics
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In general, it highlights the danger of hidden agendas, manipulation, and distraction, serving as a critique of those who exploit chaos and confusion to control ...
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The Decemberists - This Is Why We Fight Lyrics
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In summary, the lyrics in the song start by describing war with terms of "avarice" or greed and "attrition" or loss. As it progresses, lyrics like "die with our ...
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The Decemberists - Make You Better Lyrics
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Ed Sheeran tells a story of unsuccessfully trying to feel “Amazing.” This track is about the being weighed down by emotional stress despite valiant attempts to ...
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