In matching blue raincoats,Our shoes were our show boatsWe kicked around.From stairway to stationWe made a sensationWith the gadabout crowd.And oh, what a bargain,We're two easy targetsFor the old men at the off-tracks,Who've paid in palaverAnd crumpled old dollars,Which we squirreled awayIn our rat trap hotel by the freeway.And we slept-in Sundays.Your parents were anxious,Your cool was contagiousAt the old school.You left without leavingA note for your grievingSweet mother, whileYour brother was so cruel.And here in the alleysYour spirits were ralliedAs you learned quick to make a fast buck.In bathrooms and barrooms,On dumpsters and heirlooms,We bit our tongues.Sucked our lips into our lungs'Til we were falling.Such was our calling.And here in our hollow we fuse like a family,But I will not mourn for you.So take up your makeupAnd pocket your pills away.We're kings among runawaysOn the bus mall.We're downOn the bus mall.Among all the urchins and old Chinese merchantsOf the old town,We reigned at the pool hallWith one iron cue ballAnd we never let the bastards get us down.And we laughed off the quick tricks--The old men with limp dicks--On the colonnades of the waterfront park.As 4 in the morning came on, cold and boring,We huddled closeIn the bus stop enclosure enfolding.Our hands tightly holding.
Lyrics by Decemberists
(from My Own True Love) Lost At Sea 12\/17\/12 A Beginning Song A Bower Scene After The Bombs All Arise! Angel, Won't You Call Me? Annan Water Anti-Summersong Apology Song Bachelor And The Bride Bagman's Gambit Better Not Wake the Baby Billy Liar Calamity Song California One Youth And Beauty Brigade Carolina Low Cautionary Song Cavalry Captain Chimbley Sweep Clementine Cocoon Constantinople Culling Of The Fold Dear Avery Don't Carry It All Down By The Water Easy Come, Easy Go Eli, The Barrow Boy Engine Driver Everything I Try To Do, Nothing Seems To Turn Out ... From My Own True Love (Lost at Sea) Grace Cathedral Hill Gymnast, High Above The Ground Here I Dreamt I Was An Architect Hurdles Even Here I 4 U & U 4 Me I Was Meant For The Stage Infanta Isn't it a Lovely Night? January Hymn July, July! June Hymn Lake Song Legionnaire's Lament Leslie Anne Levine Los Angeles, I'm Yours Make You Better Margaret in Captivity Mariner's Revenge Song Mistral My Mother Was A Chinese Trapeze Artist O Valencia! Oceanside Odalisque Of Angels And Angles One Engine Philomena Red Right Ankle Rise To Me Riverswim Row Jimmy Rox In the Box Shankhill Butchers Shanty For The Arethusa Shiny Sixteen Military Wives Sleepless Soldiering Life Sons and Daughters Sporting Life Summersong Tain, Pts1 - 5 The Abduction of Margaret The Crane Wife 1 and 2 The Crane Wife 3 The Hazards of Love 1 The Hazards of Love 2 The Hazards of Love 3 The Hazards of Love 4 The Island-Come & See\/The Landlord\u2019s Daughte... The Kingdom Of Spain The Landlords Daughter The Perfect Crime #1 The Perfect Crime #2 The Queen's Approach The Queen's Rebuke The Rake's Song The Singer Addresses His Audience The Tain (Parts I, II, III, IV, V) The Wanting Comes in Waves The Wrong Year This Is Why We Fight Till the Water Is All Long Gone Till The Water's All Long Gone We Both Go Down Together When The War Came Won't Want for Love Yankee Bayonet (I Will Be Home Then) Youth and Beauty Brigade