Тексты песен «Decemberists»


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Decemberists - The Legionnaire's Lament

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...

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Decemberists - The Mariner's Revenge Song

We are two mariners Our ship's sole survivors In this belly of a whale It's ribs are ceiling beams It's guts are carpeting I guess we have some time to kill You may not remember me I was a child of three And you, a lad...

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Decemberists - The Perfect Crime #1

Two, three, four! I got a gun, I got a girl I got a bullet-proof plan to pull The perfect crime I got the perfect crime I got a warehouse down at the docks I got fifteen precincts of cops bought The perfect...

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Decemberists - The Perfect Crime #2

Sing news with passion of the pistol Sing news of the warning by the whistle A night so dark in the waning A dawn obscured by slight sky raining Five and twenty burglars by the reservoir A teenage lookout on the...

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Decemberists - The Perfect Crime No.1

Two, three, four! I got a gun, I got a girl I got a bullet-proof plan to pull The perfect crime I got the perfect crime I got a warehouse down at the docks I got fifteen precincts of cops bought The perfect crime I...

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Decemberists - The Perfect Crime No.2

Sing news with passion of the pistol Sing news of the warning by the whistle On a night so dark in the waning A dawn obscured by slight sky raining, oh oh Five and twenty burglars by the reservoir A teenage lookout on...

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Decemberists - The Queen's Approach

I'm Made of bones of the branches The boughs and the brow-beating light While my feet are the trunks And my head is the canopy high And my fingers extend to the leaves and the eaves and the (bright?) Might I shine?...

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Decemberists - The Queen's Rebuke

I'm made of bones of the branches the boughs and the brow-beating light While my feet are the trunks and my head is the canopy high And my fingers extend to the leaves in the eves, and the bright Brighter shine...

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Decemberists - The Queen's Rebuke / The Crossing

"The Queen's Rebuke / The Crossing" The Queen I'm made of bones of the branches the boughs and the bough beating light Well my feet are the trunks, my head is the canopy And my fingers extend to the leaves in the eves...

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Decemberists - The Rake's Song

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 I was wedded and it...

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Decemberists - The Singer Addresses His Audience

[Chorus:] We know we know we belong to ya We know you build your life around us And would we change? We had to change some We know, we know, we belong to ya We know you threw your arms around us In the hopes we wouldn't...

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Decemberists - The Soldiering Life

Ambling madly all over the town The call to arms, you're likened to a whisper I liken to a radio You were a brick bag a bowery tuff, so rough They called you from a cartoona_ Pulled out of your pantaloons But You...

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Decemberists - The Sporting Life

I fell on the playing field The work of an errant heel The din of the crowd and the loud commotion Went deafening silence and stopped emotion The season was almost done We managed it 12 to 1 So far I had known no...

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Decemberists - The Tain

PART I Crone: here upon this pillow Made of reed and willow You're a fickle little twister Are you sweet on your sister? Your fallow won't leave you alone. And granted for their pleasure Possesions laid to measure...

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Decemberists - The Tain (Parts I, Ii, Iii, Iv, V)

[PART I] [crone:] here upon this pillow made of reed and willow you're a fickle little twister are you sweet on your sister? your fallow won't leave you alone. and granted for their pleasure possesions laid to...

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Decemberists - The Wanting Comes In Waves

Colin: Mother I can hear your foot-fall now Soft disturbance in the dead-fall how It proceeds you like a black smoke pall Still the wanting comes in waves And you delivered me from danger then Pulled my cradle from the...

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Decemberists - The Wanting Comes In Waves/Repaid

"The Wanting Comes In Waves / Repaid" [Colin:] Mother I can hear your foot-fall now Soft disturbance in the dead-fall how It proceeds you like a black smoke pall Still the wanting comes in waves And you delivered me...

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Decemberists - The Wrong Year

[Verse:] Gray Jean was a river child Born down by the river wild Said hey, what ya wanna be? Nobody's gonna? Me [Chorus:] And she wants you but you won't do And it won't leave you alone And the rain falls on the wrong...

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Decemberists - Till The Water Is All Long Gone

[Chorus:] They came down from the mountains They strained too long from the fountain And all the while All the while they longed for us But I won't betray, I won't betray, I won't betray, I won't No, I won't betray, I...

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Decemberists - Traveling On

[Verse 1] Boys in blazers Union labor The last on the life boat to get on Leering drivers Weary lifers And I wanna know is when we go on [Chorus] 'Cause we're traveling on Sold for a song We're traveling on And it...