Тексты песен «Decemberists»

The gymnast, high above the ground Limbers up and falls, tender down Ankles splayed and all tied The gymnast long has arrived Lazy, your long sister lays Waiting out this long light brigade Prayed for snow a long...

And here I dreamt I was a soldier And I marched the streets of Birkenau And I recall in spring The perfume that the air would bring To the indolent town Where the barkers call the moon down The carnival was...

If you ever get close to a human And human behaviour Be ready to get confused There's definitely no logic To human behaviour But yet so irresistible There's no map To human behaviour They're terribly moody Then all...

So it started in your ovaries A stone, a seedling Our bones entwined A warning from the orderlies A bulge for bleeding This will take it's time So it all ran down the telephone And saw me clearly Only nine years old...

Truly, with his thorn in your side and you don't know why Julie dips her toe in the tide and she don't know why No, she don't know why she got all dolled up for a suicide And when the stage lights dimmed on the...

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 With...

[Verse 1] I will not say your name Go back from where you came Hope you enjoy your stay We will not go away Go away [Chorus] Your time's gonna come [Verse 2] You plate your world in gold To hide the rot of your soul...

[Verse 1] When the summer days live to bore you And the river lies long before you And the one that you love ignores you I'll be your girl [Verse 2] Like a senator works a full room Like a lover undone by full moon...

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 of liquors...

Isn't a lovely night? And so alive With fireflies Providing us their holy light And here we made a bed of boughs And thistle down That we had found To lay upon the dewy ground And isn't it a lovely way We got in from...

There is a road that meets the road that goes to my house And how it green grows there And we've got special boots to beat the path to my house And it's careful and it's careful when I'm there And I say your uncle...

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 line...

[Verse:] Down by the lake we were over turning pebbles and depending All the animals alive And I took a drive from your cigarette and I pinched it 'tween my finger and my thumb To lit it dive, and the sun burned...

Down by the lake We were over turning 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 Had died. And the sun burned low, on the...

I'm a legionnaire Camel in disrepair Hoping for a Frigidaire To come passing by I am on reprieve Lacking my joie de vive Missing my gay Paris In this desert dry And I wrote my girl Told her I would not return...

My name is Leslie Anne Levine My mother birthed me down a dry 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...

Dear Avery I think of you only Were you waving? Were you dead on the vine? Oh Avery I think of you lonely If I could just grab you By the nape of your neck There are times life will rattle your bones and will bend...

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 line Training...

Big mountain Wide river. There's an ancient pull. These tree trunks. These stream beds. Leave our bellies full. They sing out. I am gonna stand my ground. You rise to me and I'll blow you down. I am gonna stand...

There is a city by the sea A gentle company I don't suppose you want to And as it tells its sorry tale In harrowing detail Its hollowness will haunt you Its streets and boulevards Orphans and oligarchs it hears A...