Eli, The Barrow Boy The Decemberists

Eli, the barrow boy Of the old town Sells coal and marigolds And he cries out All down the day Below the tamaracks He is crying: “Corn cobs and candle wax for the buying” All down the day “Would

Eli Eli The Gladiators

Eli, Eli, Eli - lama sabachthani ?

Carolina Low The Decemberists

I am a boy From the high country And I've got a little love For the offering I come down from the mountain Bow to the sea And Carolina low I will carry thee Gonna take you up Gonna take you 'round Well

Dear Avery The Decemberists

Dear Avery I think of you only Were you waving Were you dead on the vine?

Mistral The Decemberists

So we already wrecked the rental car And I've already lost my way But feet entombed in this cursed bar For a day, anyway So lay me down on the cobblestone And then furrow this aching jet The streets are

Not Going Back Eli

We are not just children of circumstance Blisters on our hands and holes in our pants And with each tired leg in front of the next You take the weight of this world off our neck And I'm not

Don't Carry It All The Decemberists

Here we come to a turning of the season Witness to the arc towards the sun A neighbor's blessed burden within reason Becomes a burden borne of all and one And nobody, nobody knows Let the yolk fall

12/17/12 The Decemberists

What a gift, what a gift you can give me Here with my heart so whole while others may be grieving Think of their grieving And oh my boy Don't you know you are dear to me You are a breath of life and a

Rise To Me (Live) The Decemberists

me and Ill blow you down I am gonna stand my ground you rise to me and Ill blow you down Hey Henry, can you hear me, let me see those eyes this distance, between us can seem a mountain size but boy

Rise To Me The Decemberists

and I'll blow you down I am gonna stand my ground you rise to me and I'll blow you down Hey Henry, can you hear me, let me see those eyes this distance, between us can seem a mountain size but boy

Billy Liar The Decemberists

Billy Liar's got his hands in his pockets Staring over at the neighbor's, knickers down He's got his knickers down So the summer is eternity for you?

Valerie Plame The Decemberists

Oh, Valerie Plame, if that really is your name I will shout the same to the world Dear Valerie Plame, so they made a wreck of you Well, give me the rest of you, and I'll get the world But you were just

Sucker Boy Calvin Offstreet

전부다 알고 싶어 just let me know your mobile number girl oneday the boy saw Eli smile with a cool boy poor boy doesn't ride skate any mo' he just play play station boy boy boy you must ride your Damn skate

Sleeping Beauty Jeffrey Eli

to read For he was only 3 Playing with dolls and dressing pretty I wish I was like that, a shirt up on his head If you think it’s evil talk to the people from the Victorian, all the boys were in pink

Sucker Boy (Inst.) Calvin Offstreet

전부다 알고 싶어 just let me know your mobile number girl oneday the boy saw Eli smile with a cool boy poor boy doesn't ride skate any mo' he just play play station boy boy boy you must ride your Damn skate

The Infanta The Decemberists

of liquors and milk And we'll all come praise The Infanta And we'll all come praise The Infanta Among five score pachyderm Each canopied and passengered Sit the duke and the duchess' luscious young girls

Down By The Water (Live) The Decemberists

See this ancient riverbed See where all the follies led Down by the water and Down by the old main drag I was just some towhead teen Feeling round for fingers to get in between Down by the water

Down By The Water The Decemberists

See this ancient riverbed See where all the follies led Down by the water and Down by the old main drag I was just some towhead teen Feeling round for fingers to get in between Down by the water

Calamity Song The Decemberists

Had a dream You and me and the war of the end-times And I believe California succumbed to the fault line We heaved relief As scores of innocents died And the Andalusian tribes Setting the lay of

June Hymn (Live) The Decemberists

Heres a hymn to welcome in the day Heralding a summers early sway And all the bulbs all comin in To begin The thrushes bleeding battle with the wrens Disrupts my reverie again Pegging clothing on

June Hymn The Decemberists

Hear the hymn to welcome in the day Heralding a summer's early sway And all the bulbs all coming in, to begin Thrushs' bleeding battle with the wrens Disrupts my reverie again Pegging clothing on

Easy Come, Easy Go The Decemberists

Limber Jack, he landed on his back Was bedding on the netting when the rigging went slack Was a moonless night, the stars all lending light She's leering in the mirror when the rodent rode right Cause

I Was Meant For The Stage The Decemberists

I was meant for the stage I was meant for the curtain I was meant to tread these boards Of this much I am certain I was meant for the crowd I was meant for the shouting I was meant to raise these hands

Cavalry Captain The Decemberists

I am the cavalry captain I am the remedy to your heart I am the carbon collected I am the printing upon your stars And when you sharp shine your eyes Looking lost, looking bright Wheel away on the light

Better Not Wake The Baby The Decemberists

Kick a hole in the hallway While singing like a painted lady Use your skull like a cannonball But it better not wake the baby How long will this go on How long, indeed You can bang a drum 'till the money's

A Bower Scene The Decemberists

Second Voice: “Thou unconsolable daughter,” said the sister “When wilt thou trouble the water in the cistern? And what irascible blackguard is the father?”

The Soldiering Life The Decemberists

Ambling madly all over the town The call to arms you likened to a whisper I likened to a radio You were a brickbat, a Bowery tough, so rough They culled you from a cartoon Pulled out of your pantaloons

The Bagman's Gambit The Decemberists

On the lam from the law On the steps of the Capitol You shot a plainclothes cop on the ten o'clock And I saw momentarily They flashed a photograph, it couldn't be you You'd been abused so horribly But

The Rake's Song The Decemberists

The Rake: I had entered into a marriage In the summer of my twenty-first year And the bells rang for our wedding Only now do I remember it clear Alright, alright, alright!

The Wrong Year The Decemberists

Gray Jane was a riverchild Born down by the river wild Said hey what I wanna be Nobody's gonna intervene And she wants you but you won't do And it won't leave you alone And the rain falls on the wrong

The Crane Wife 1, 2, And 3 The Decemberists

It was a cold night And the snow lay low I pulled my coat tight Against the falling down And the sun was all And the sun was all down And the sun was all And the sun was all down I am a poor man I haven't

The Soldiering Life (Live) The Decemberists

Ambling madly all over the town The call to arms, youre likened to a whisper I liken to a radio You were a brick bag a bowery tough, so rough They called you from a cartoon Pulled out of your pantaloons

The Crane Wife 1, 2, And 3 (Live) The Decemberists

[1] It was a cold night And the snow lay around I pulled my coat tight Against the falling down And the sun was all And the sun was all down And the sun was all And the sun was all down I am a

Till The Water's All Long Gone The Decemberists

They came down from the mound They exchanged to on from the fountain And all the while All the while they longed for us But I won't betray you I won't betray you I won't betray you I won't No I won't betray

A Beginning Song The Decemberists

Condescend to calm this riot in your mind Find yourself in time Find yourself in time If I am waiting, should I be waiting If I am wanting, should I be wanting And all around me All around me Document the

January Hymn The Decemberists

On a winter Sunday I go To clear away the snow And green the ground below April all an ocean away Is this the better way to spend the day?

The Mariner's Revenge Song The Decemberists

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

Oklahoma Girl Eli Young Band

I fell in love with an Oklahoma girl, She stole my heart took over my world, She lit my cigarette and never had to ask, One look and I was gone like that, [Chorus] That's okay I don't mind, A Texas boy

Lake Song The Decemberists

Down by the lake We were overturning pebbles And upending all the animals alight And I took a drag From your cigarette and pinched it 'Tween my finger and my thumb Till it died And the sun burned low on

O New England The Decemberists

We’d come seven hours down Took the blue line to see where we hopped out And I was only joking, I was only joking And I was only trying to get a laugh You say this was the furthest that we had come We

The Last Time I Cried (Live Version) Chris De Burgh

; The last time I cried, I could see the people Long ago in the rain, Waiting as the soldiers put them all on a train, And the hands on the bars, the eyes full of tears, And the word is the same, for a

The Last Time I Cried Chris De Burgh

; The last time I cried, I could see the people Long ago in the rain, Waiting as the soldiers put them all on a train, And the hands on the bars, the eyes full of tears, And the word is the same, for a

Anti-Summersong The Decemberists

Here now, long gone Three freaks and a bed are gone Went to the river but the river got dry And all the good people were hanging around Too little, too late Everybody gotta medicate Through the winter

Leslie Ann Levine (Live) The Decemberists

revine My mother birthed me far too soon Born at nine and dead at noon Fifteen years gone now I still wander this parapet And shake my rattle bone Fifteen years gone now I still cling to the

Leslie Ann Levine The Decemberists

down a dry ravine My mother birthed me far too soon Born at nine and dead at noon Fifteen years gone now, I still wander this parapet And shake my rattled bone Fifteen years gone now, I still cling to the

O Valencia！ The Decemberists

agree I'm your brother's sworn enemy But I'll shout out my love to the stars 내 식구들은 반대하지 난 네 오빠의 적 그래도 나는 별들에게 내 사랑을 외치지 So wait for the stone on your window, your window Wait by the car and

Rox In The Box (Live) The Decemberists

Get the rox in the box, get the water right down to your socks This bulkhead's built of fallen brethren bones We all do what we can, we endure our fellow man And we sing our songs to the head frames

Rox In The Box The Decemberists

If the rocks in the box Get the water right down to your socks This bulkhead's built of fallen brother and bones We all do what we can We endure our fellow man And we sing our songs to the headframe's

The Crane Wife 3 The Decemberists

And under the boughs unbowed All clothed in a snowy shroud She had no heart so hardened All under the boughs unbowed Each feather it fell from skin Till threadbare while she grew thin How were

We Both Go Down Together (Live) The Decemberists

and rotten I come from wealth and beauty Untouched by work or duty And oh, my love, my love And oh, my love, my love We both go down together I found you, a tattooed tramp A dirty daughter from the