[PART I][crone:] here upon this pillowMade of reed and willowYou're a fickle little twisterAre you sweet on your sister?Your fallow won't leave you alone.And granted for their pleasurePossesions laid to measureShe's a salty little pisserWith your cock in her kisserBut now she's a will of her own.[PART II][husband:] damn your ankles and eyes wideFrom you fingernails to your ponytails too.King of the insects and the m-5Over charlemagne in a motorcade too.And baby needs a new prizeBaby needs a new and shiny prize.[captain:] in this place called heavenlyYou were born here.This place called heavenlyYou were born here.You were born here.[husband:] and now all the marchers descend from highI will dedicate all of my awakenings to this.And damn all the angles that opress my sightI will bleed your heart through a samovar soon.[captain:] in this place called heavenlyYou were born here.This place called heavenlyYou were born here.You were born here.[PART III][soldier:] they settled dust in your hairTo watch you shake and shout it out.With our armaments baredWe shed our bags and travel alls.From the lee of the wallHe comes in the chang and the chariotAnd all his eunuchs in thrallCan scarce lift his line and lariat.Here com loose his houndsTo blow me down.[chorus of waifs:] blow me down.[soldier:] on this stretch of groundI'll lay me down.[chorus of waifs:] lay me down.[soldier:] to sleep.[chaplain:] and now stricken with pangsThat tear at our backs like thistle downThe mirror's soft silver tainReflects our last and birthing hour[soldier:] here com loose his houndsTo blow me down.[chorus of waifs:] blow me down.[soldier:] on this stretch of groundI'll lay me down.[chorus of waifs:] lay me down.[soldier:] to sleep.[PART IV][evening][widow:] o the wind is blowing, it hurts your skinAs you climb up hillside, forest and fen.Your arms full of lullabies, orchids and wineYour memories wrapped within paper and twine.The room that you lie in is dusty and hardSleeping soft babies on piles of yardsOf gingham, taffeta, cotton and silkYour dry hungry mouths cry for your mother's milk.When the dawn commes to greet you, you'll rise with clothes onAnd advance with the others, singing old songsOf cattle and maidens and withered old queens.Let the music carry you on.The room that you lie in is dusty and hardSleeping soft babies on piles of yardsOf gingham, taffeta, cotton and silkYour dry hungry mouths cry for your mother's milk.[PART V][woman:] darling dear what have you done?Your clothes are town, your make-up runs.[daughter:] I ran through brambles, blooming thistleI washed my face in the river when you whistled me on.[woman:] darling dear, what hav eyou done?Your hands and face are smeared with blood.[daughter:] the chaplain came and called me outTo beat and to butcher his mother's sow[woman:] but darling dear, they found him deadThis morning on the riverbed.But hush now darling, don't you cry.Your reward's in the sweet by-and -by.Hush now baby, don't you cry.Your reward's in the sweet by-and-by.[crone:] and now we've seen your powersSoftly stretch the hoursYou're a fickle little twisterAre you sweet on your sister?As now you go wandering home.
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 On The Bus Mall 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 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
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