 Genius Meanings
|
|
The Decemberists – Shankill Butchers
|
|
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
|
|
Sarah Jarosz – Shankill Butchers
|
|
Two, three, four... / The shankill butchers ride tonight / You better shut your windows tight / They're sharpening their cleavers and their knives / And taking all their whiskey by
|
|
|
The Decemberists – The Crane Wife 3
|
|
“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
|
|
|
The Decemberists – Summersong
|
|
[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
|
|
|
The Decemberists – O Valencia!
|
|
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.
|
|
|
The Decemberists – When the War Came
|
|
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
|
|
|
The Decemberists – Sons and Daughters
|
|
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
|
|
|
The Decemberists (Ft. Laura Veirs) – Yankee Bayonet (I Will Be Home Then)
|
|
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
|
|
|
The Decemberists – The Island: Come and See; The Landlord’s Daughter; You’ll Not Feel the Drowning
|
|
This song is inspired by and about William Shakespeare’s play ‘the Tempest’.
|
|
The Decemberists – The Perfect Crime #2
|
|
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
|
|
|
The Decemberists – The Crane Wife 1 & 2
|
|
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
|
