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

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

Breakfast in Bed Rox

had planned it The coldest of hearts seem to fall apart Cause everything I see Has got me thinking This don't look like me Talking on the phone for hours Making breakfast in bed Never see me wanting flowers

Oh My Rox

I heard you say the sorry words Then I hear her dish the dirt you made, you made Twice as nice you were to me Half the man you used to be today, today I can forgive, oh yes But I can't forget the rest

Page Unfolds Rox

Ha ha Every way that I tried and turned in And although I call it something else I am the fool sadly, the one under a spell And I guess for a single moment I know your words were full of air So I turned

Forever Always Wishing Rox

My world has Found a different path It's found a better light Without him by my side And I cannot take from what we had All of just two times His heart won over mine And don't think the thoughts of the

Do As I Say Rox

Just for the moment I’ll sit here and watch you sleep I could stay like this and never leave The words that you told me I know that they’re half true Cause I don’t expect the world from you What do you

No Going Back Rox

Every thinkin' how I got in this place All that drinking has left me a sour taste And my old flame is lying right next to me Like the goodness but now that it's history Ooh, didn't guess the scene for

Rocksteady Rox

We're rockin' rocksteady Like we did before We're rockin' rocksteady My time is all yours 'Cause you'll save me Oh rocksteady Push my back on the wall It's for you take it all My mind's running away As

Heart Ran Dry Rox

I heard your name in autumn there The first time in so long I turn around to see if you were there A shadow is all I found So much I missed too much to tell Your love I missed the most You know me best

Sad Eyes Rox

I'm hurting now Cause who would've known The perfect night would be frauded And it's the same way how I asked you before had you put an end and departed Unfinished business my dear You see it different

Precious Moments Rox

I believe that the time is right Spiritually we're one for life It brings joy I can't explain You see through me When I try to hide behind my pride You're the face that I see When the past would haunt

Opportunity Nox Roxette

Well, I like you, I couldn't think of anything but you For a week I was in love with your hairdo I couldn't chew those muffins I used to I knew I was way over the moon When I met you, when I met you

My Baby Left Me Rox

My baby left my sad He didn't do nothing right My baby left me My baby left me dry My baby left my sad He didn't do nothing right My baby left me My baby left me so dry to the bone And he left me alone

The Infanta The Decemberists

Here she comes in her palanquin On the back of an elephant On a bed made of linen and sequins and silk All astride on her father's line With the king and his concubines And her nurse, with her pitchers

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

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

The Bagman's Gambit The Decemberists

you were there in some anonymous room And I recall that fall I was working for the government And in a bathroom stall off the National Mall How we kissed so sweetly How could I refuse a favor or two For

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

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

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

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

Sonnet The Decemberists

Guido, I wish that you and Lapo and I Could be taken by magic and placed in a boat Where every rising swell Would sweep us at our will across the sky Then tempest never, or weather dire Could ever make

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

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

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

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

The Crane Wife 1, 2, And 3 The Decemberists

my crane wife My crane wife arrived at my door In the moonlight All star bright and tongue-tied I took her in We were married and bells rang sweet For our wedding And our bedding was ready When we fell

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

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

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

A Beginning Song The Decemberists

Let's commence to coordinate our sights And get them square to rights Get them square to rights Condescend to calm this riot in your mind Find yourself in time Find yourself in time If I am waiting, should

Make You Better The Decemberists

I want you, thin fingers I wanted you, thin fingernails And when you bend backwards I wanted you, I needed you Oh oh, to make me better I'll love you in springtime I lost you when summer came And when

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?

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?”

One Engine (from The Hunger Games Soundtrack) The Decemberists

One engine barely makes it away One engine barely makes it away Hold on they're breaking their bonds Hold on they're breaking their bonds One engine barely makes it away And the martyr line It's a bitter

Philomena The Decemberists

Oh, Philomena, are you in a tawdry gown Lean to your window, let slip a ribbon down A cure to your boredom, if only you'll let me go Down, down down Long sunny days can lead to lazy vices Boys all at idle

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!

12/17/12 The Decemberists

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 light upon the

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

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

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

The Rake's Song (Live) The Decemberists

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 No more a rake and no more a bachelor

The Singer Addresses His Audience The Decemberists

We know, we know, we belong to ya We know you built your life around us Would we change, we had to change some We know, we know, we belong to ya We know you grew your arms around us And the hopes we wouldn't

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

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

Grace Cathedral Hill The Decemberists

"Grace cathedral hill All wrapped in bones of setting sun All dust and stone and moribund I paid twenty-five cents to light a little white candle For a new year's day I sat and watched it burn away

Rise To Me (Live) The Decemberists

mountain size but boy, you are gonna stand your ground they rise to you youll blow them down let me see you stand your ground they rise to you youll blow them down My darling, my sweetheart, I am in