The Decemberists Lyrics

The Decemberists Lyrics

"The Mariner's Revenge Song Lyrics"

Complex Lyrics
the assembly plant is smothering me i'm a predefined commodity the marauder mill needs an unpolluted grist i can feel the strain around my wrist we're in human farms and the scythe is cutting carefully reaping the radical we're in human farms and the blight is striking randomly it's reforming me [chorus:] when the sedition's growing - when you force me to the

We are two mariners
Our ships' sole survivors
In this belly of a whale

Its ribs our ceiling beams
Its guts our carpeting
I guess we have some time to kill

You may not remember me
I was a child of three
And you, a lad of eighteen

But I remember you
And I will relate to you
How our histories interweave

At the time you were
A rake and a roustabout
Spending all your money
On the whores and hounds
Oh Ohhhhh

You had a charming air
All cheap and debonair
My widowed mother found so sweet

And so she took you in
Her sheets still warm with him
Now filled with filth and foul disease

As time wore on you proved
A debt-ridden drunken mess
Leaving my mother
A poor consumptive wretch
Oh Ohhhhh
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Trouble With Me Lyrics
The trouble with me is I keep believing in the wrong things Who needs to believe anyway. I have given all. I have seen what it brings. I wish it all away. Salvage what I can. I always ran. Now I'm gone in a rage, now I'm gone in a rage. The trouble with me is I put faith in everything. who needs hope anyway. And now my tongue is stained with words I do not mean, and there's
BR> And then you disappeared
Your gambling arrears
The only thing you left behind

And then the magistrate
Reclaimed our small estate
And my poor mother lost her mind

Then one day in spring
My dear sweet mother died
But before she did
I took her hand as she, dying, cried:
Oh Ohhhhh

"Find him, bind him
Tie him to a pole and break
His fingers to splinters
Drag him to a hole until he
Wakes up naked
Clawing at the ceiling
Of his grave
*sigh*"

It took me fifteen years
To swallow all my tears
Among the urchins in the street

Until a priory
Took pity and hired me
To keep their vestry nice and neat

But never once in the employ
Of these holy men
Did I ever once turn my mind
From the though
Are they saying goodbye Lyrics
Are they saying goodbye or is it just like before could it be that I, made him love her more does he course upon my face do I symbolise this grace could it be that I, made him love her more Well I refuse to go to deeper I choose to go blind this trouble just shouldn’t be mine but its confusing my existence, it's contruding my mind I guess this trouble is also mine
t of revenge
Oh Ohhhhh

One night I overheard
The Prior exchanging words
With a penitent whaler from the sea

The captain of his ship
Who matched you toe to tip
Was known for wanton cruelty

The following day
I shipped to sea
With a privateer

And in the whistle
Of the wind
I could almost hear...
Oh Ohhhhh

"Find him, bind him
Tie him to a pole and break
His fingers to splinters
Drag him to a hole until he
Wakes up naked
Clawing at the ceiling
Of his grave

"There is one thing I must say to you
As you sail across the sea
Always, your mother will watch over you
As you avenge this wicked deed"

[haunting, sailor-esque musical interlude lead by mandolin, accordion and tuba]

And
Fall-Dark Waters Lyrics
Deepness, Where are You? Insert emotions storm in Fill me... With your waves Water! Love me now... Whisper your dreams Pain grows with the waves Darkness runs through your Gales Fall is yet to Come Pain we be swept away I feel so hogh - indcredible high Floating above the stars - kissing the sky I fly through th Sun as a Wave Feeling no pain then that fateful night
We had you in eye sight
After twenty months at sea

Your starboard flank abeam
I was getting my muskets clean
When came this rumbling from beneath

The ocean shook
The sky went black
And the captain quailed

And before us grew
The angry jaws
Of a giant whale

[instrumental noise]
Oh Ohhhhhhhhhh
[screaming]
Ohhhhh
[screaming]

Don't know how I survived
The crew all was chewed alive
I must have slipped between his teeth

But, O! What providence!
What divine intelligence!
That you should survive
As well as me

It gives my heart
Great joy
To see your eyes fill with fear

So lean in close
And I will whisper
The last words you'll hear
Ohh Ohhhhh


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