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The Decemberists - When the War Came 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 - Cocoon Lyrics
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What can we do? The tainted election, the low dirty war, it happened before you came to. But this is solution, and this is amends. The joke ...
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The Decemberists Lyrics, Songs, Albums And More
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song lyrics, song meanings, albums, music and more ... 0 · Valerie Plame · 10 · We All Die Young · 1 · We Both Go Down Together · 139 · When the War Came · 32.
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The Decemberists - Calamity Song Lyrics
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Had a dream. You and me and the war at the end times. And I believe. California succumbed to the fault line. We heaved relief. As scores of innocents died
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The Decemberists - This Is Why We Fight Lyrics
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Come the war. Come the avarice. Come the war. Come hell. Come attrition. Come the reek of bones. Come attrition. Come hell. This is why. Why we fight
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The Decemberists - Sixteen Military Wives Lyrics
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The song isn't exactly anti war inasmuch as it is a commentary on how events and messages get muffled and distorted through the filters of the media. It seems ...
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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 - Sons and Daughters Lyrics
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Simply about post-war optimism. I like to place this in Europe after WWII ... Climbing this mountain and getting as high as you can, and then coming down that ...
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The Decemberists - June Hymn Lyrics
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... coming in To ... While it may have something to do with the fact that "This is Why We Fight" comes right after this song, I don't believe it's a literal war.
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The Decemberists - After the Bombs Lyrics
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A touching ballad of love found in dire conditions; a flower that blooms in the fires of war, tempered by trials, and finally let to flourish after the war ...
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The Decemberists - Shiny Lyrics
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I'm a dull and witless boy. In the after bars, think I was sullied by a dream: in the killing jar, you and me at war at arms all falling in embrace.
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The Decemberists - Here I Dreamt I Was an Architect Lyrics
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... song came on and the lyrics went: "And we are vagabonds We travel without seatbelts on We live this close to death ". everyone froze and we were all just ...
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The Decemberists - Red Right Ankle Lyrics
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... came to meet your leg. And how the muscle, bone, and ... The first verse I see as a metaphor for the companionship of war like described in the song before it.
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The Decemberists - E. Watson Lyrics
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His dad a martyred soldier in the war between the states. Lord, bring down the ... Bitter about the man who came to the town and so sullied it, the mob who ...
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The Decemberists - The Kingdom of Spain Lyrics
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One interpretation is that in the war of love, children suffer the collateral damage. ... Again we seem to be coming back to the image of law and judgment ...
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The Decemberists - Philomena Lyrics
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... interpretation but I've been reading a little bit deeper in it. To me, this song is about a young male soldier who was drafted to fight in a war. He saw ...
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The Decemberists - Valerie Plame Lyrics
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... war on Iraq. So what this very loathsome old man did, he blew the cover of the ... That's why I came her, cause i could not quite get what the song is saying.
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The Decemberists - My Mother Was a Chinese Trapeze Artist Lyrics
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The Decemberists - Starwatcher Lyrics
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... war. There's a lady on the stair. All a-shambling with thistles in her hair. Singing hold, hold, hold your ground. Hold, hold, hold your ground. Starwatcher
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The Decemberists - The Legionnaire's Lament Lyrics
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... war victims in WWI, who never made it back. And that is why it couldn't possibly 1830….Besides, cars are mentioned in the song. There were no cars in 1830 ...
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The Decemberists - The Bagman's Gambit Lyrics
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... Song Meaning. My interpretation is different than many of the others that ... this is an ignorant comment, but does this song relate to the cold war what-so-ever?
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The Decemberists - I Don't Mind Lyrics
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... war(?), or becoming sad to leave a parent. However, the speaker "doesn't mind" these feelings, which connotes an attitude of acceptance. So maybe Colin is ...
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The Decemberists - Yankee Bayonet (I Will Be Home Then) Lyrics
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50 Comments. sort form. All Comment Types (50), General Comment (49), Song Meaning (1) ... providing this song takes place during the American Civil War, I think ...
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The Decemberists - The Wanting Comes in Waves/Repaid Lyrics
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