 Genius Meanings
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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 – The Crane Wife 1 & 2
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The Crane Wife is originated as an ancient Japanese folk tale that tells the story of a man who finds a wounded crane, nurtures it back to health and releases it, only to have the
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The Decemberists – The Crane Wife 1, 2, and 3
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(The Crane Wife 1) / It was a cold night / And the snow lay 'round / I pulled my coat tight / Against the falling down / And the sun was all / And the sun was all down / And the
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Marianne Faithfull (Ft. Nick Cave) – The Crane Wife 3
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[Verse 1: Marianne Faithful] / And under the boughs unbowed / All holding a snowy shroud / She had no heart, so hardened / All under the boughs unbowed / [Verse 2: Marianne
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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 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 (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 – Shankill Butchers
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Frontman Colin Meloy told Pitchfork: “I was reading the Van Morrison biography by Johnny Rogan last summer; I was in Ireland, and there’s a section where he talks about 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 – Culling Of The Fold
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“The Culling Of The Fold” is featured as a Tower Records bonus track, and is one of the four bonus tracks on The Crane Wife, The Decemberists' fourth studio album, released in 2006
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The Decemberists – After The Bombs
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“After The Bombs” is featured as the only iTunes bonus track on The Crane Wife, but is one of four bonus tracks total.
This song is slower than most of the songs on the album, and
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Sandwiches – The Crane Wife Review
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1. The Crane Wife 3 / 2. The Island / 3. Yankee Bayonet / 4. O Valencia! / 5. The Perfect Crime #2 / 6. When The War Came / 7. Shankill Butchers / 8. Summersong / 9. The Crane Wife
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The Decemberists – The Day I Knew You'd Not Come Back
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“The Day I Knew You’d Not Come Back” is paired with “The Perfect Crime #1” as one of two Starbucks bonus tracks on The Crane Wife, the other being “Hurdles Even Here.”
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The Decemberists – Anti-Summersong
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Here now, long gone / Three freaks in a Vanagon / Went to the river but the river got dry / And all the good people were hanging around / Too little, too late / Everybody gotta
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The Decemberists – The Perfect Crime #1
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“The Perfect Crime #1” is paired with “The Day I Knew You’d Not Come Back” as one of two Starbucks bonus tracks on The Crane Wife, the other being “Hurdles Even Here.”
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The Decemberists – Hurdles Even Here
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“Hurdles Even Here” is one of two Starbucks bonus tracks featured on The Crane Wife, the other(s) being “The Perfect Crime #1” paired with “The Day I Knew You’d Not Come Back.”
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The Decemberists – The Capp Street Girls
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Oh, the Capp Street girls / With their pretty curls and bows / And the lonely lights in their eyes / How I long to lie / On a summer's day in there / In the arms of the Capp Street
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The Decemberists – Red Right Ankle
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[Verse 1] / This is the story of your red right ankle / And how it came to meet your leg / And how the muscle, bone, and sinews tangled / And how the skin was softly shed / And how
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