The Decemberists Lyrics
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From the Album
1. Burial Ground
2. Oh No!
3. The Reapers
4. Long White Veil
5. William Fitzwilliam
6. Don't Go to the Woods
7. The Black Maria
8. All I Want Is You
9. Born to the Morning
10. America Made Me
11. Tell Me What's on Your Mind
12. Never Satisfied
13. Joan in the Garden
From the Album 1. Once In My Life 2. Cutting Stone 3. Severed 4. Starwatcher 5. Tripping Along 6. Your Ghost 7. Everything Is Awful 8. Suckers Prayer 9. We All Die Young 10. Rusalka Rusalka / Wild Rushes 11. Ill Be Your Girl
From the Album 1. Dont Carry It All 2. Calamity Song 3. Rise to Me 4. Rox in the Box 5. January Hymn 6. Down By The Water 7. All Arise! 8. June Hymn 9. This Is Why We Fight 10. Dear Avery
From the Album 1. The Crane Wife 3 2. The Island: Come and See / The Landlords Daughter / Youll Not Feel The Drowning 3. Yankee Bayonet (I Will Be Home Then) 4. O Valencia! 5. The Perfect Crime #2 6. When The War Came 7. Shankill Butchers 8. Summersong 9. The Crane Wife 1 & 2 10. Sons & Daughters
Other Songs 12/17/12 16 Military Wives A Beginning Song A Bower Scene A Cautionary Song Abduction Of Margaret After The Bombs An Interlude Angel Wont You Call Me? Annan Water Anti-Summersong As I Rise Bagmans Gambit Ben Franklins Song Better Not Wake the Baby Billy Liar Bower Scene Burying Davy California One / Youth And Beauty Brigade California One / Youth And Beauty Brigade Carolina Low Cavalry Captain Clementine Cocoon Culling Of The Fold Down on the Knuckle E. Watson Easy Come, Easy Go Eli The Barrow Boy Everything I Try To Do Nothing Seems To Turn Out Right Fits & Starts Foregone From My Own True Love Grace Cathedral Hill Here I Dreamt I Was An Architect Hurdles Even Here I 4 U and U 4 Me I 4 U & U 4 Me I Dont Mind I Was Meant For The Stage I Will Not Say Your Name Infanta Isnt It A Lovely Night? July July! Lake Song Leslie Ann Levine Leslie Anne Levine Los Angeles Im Yours Make You Better Margaret In Captivity Mariners Revenge Song Midlist Author Mistral My Mother Was A Chinese Trapeze Artist Oceanside Odalisque Of Angels And Angles On The Bus Mall One Engine Philomena Prelude Queen's Approach Red Right Ankle Row Jimmy Rusalka Rusalka / Wild Rushes Shankhill Butchers Shanty For The Arethusa Shiny Sixteen Military Wives Sleepless Soldiering Life Song For Myla Goldberg Song For The Myla Goldberg Sonnet Sons And Daughters Stateside Sunshine The Abduction Of Margaret The Apology Song The Bachelor And The Bride The Bagmans Gambit The Chimbley Sweep The Crane Wife 1 2 and 3 The Crane Wife 1 and 2 The Engine Driver The Gymnast High Above The Ground The Harrowed and the Haunted The Hazards Of Love 1 The Hazards Of Love 2 The Hazards Of Love 3 The Hazards Of Love 4 The Infanta The Island: Come and See / The Landlords Daughter / Youll Not Feel The Drowning The Legionnaires Lament The Mariners Revenge Song The Perfect Crime The Queens Approach The Queens Rebuke The Queens Rebuke / The Crossing The Queens Rebuke / The Crossing The Rakes Song The Singer Addresses His Audience The Soldiering Life The Sporting Life The Tain The Wanting Comes in Waves The Wanting Comes In Waves / Repaid The Wanting Comes In Waves / Repaid The Wrong Year Til the Water's All Long Gone Till The Waters All Long Gone Traveling On Wanting Comes In Waves/Repaid We Both Go Down Together Why Would I Now? Wont Want for Love Won't Want For Love (Margaret In The Taiga) Yankee Bayonet
From the Album 1. Once In My Life 2. Cutting Stone 3. Severed 4. Starwatcher 5. Tripping Along 6. Your Ghost 7. Everything Is Awful 8. Suckers Prayer 9. We All Die Young 10. Rusalka Rusalka / Wild Rushes 11. Ill Be Your Girl
From the Album 1. Dont Carry It All 2. Calamity Song 3. Rise to Me 4. Rox in the Box 5. January Hymn 6. Down By The Water 7. All Arise! 8. June Hymn 9. This Is Why We Fight 10. Dear Avery
From the Album 1. The Crane Wife 3 2. The Island: Come and See / The Landlords Daughter / Youll Not Feel The Drowning 3. Yankee Bayonet (I Will Be Home Then) 4. O Valencia! 5. The Perfect Crime #2 6. When The War Came 7. Shankill Butchers 8. Summersong 9. The Crane Wife 1 & 2 10. Sons & Daughters
Other Songs 12/17/12 16 Military Wives A Beginning Song A Bower Scene A Cautionary Song Abduction Of Margaret After The Bombs An Interlude Angel Wont You Call Me? Annan Water Anti-Summersong As I Rise Bagmans Gambit Ben Franklins Song Better Not Wake the Baby Billy Liar Bower Scene Burying Davy California One / Youth And Beauty Brigade California One / Youth And Beauty Brigade Carolina Low Cavalry Captain Clementine Cocoon Culling Of The Fold Down on the Knuckle E. Watson Easy Come, Easy Go Eli The Barrow Boy Everything I Try To Do Nothing Seems To Turn Out Right Fits & Starts Foregone From My Own True Love Grace Cathedral Hill Here I Dreamt I Was An Architect Hurdles Even Here I 4 U and U 4 Me I 4 U & U 4 Me I Dont Mind I Was Meant For The Stage I Will Not Say Your Name Infanta Isnt It A Lovely Night? July July! Lake Song Leslie Ann Levine Leslie Anne Levine Los Angeles Im Yours Make You Better Margaret In Captivity Mariners Revenge Song Midlist Author Mistral My Mother Was A Chinese Trapeze Artist Oceanside Odalisque Of Angels And Angles On The Bus Mall One Engine Philomena Prelude Queen's Approach Red Right Ankle Row Jimmy Rusalka Rusalka / Wild Rushes Shankhill Butchers Shanty For The Arethusa Shiny Sixteen Military Wives Sleepless Soldiering Life Song For Myla Goldberg Song For The Myla Goldberg Sonnet Sons And Daughters Stateside Sunshine The Abduction Of Margaret The Apology Song The Bachelor And The Bride The Bagmans Gambit The Chimbley Sweep The Crane Wife 1 2 and 3 The Crane Wife 1 and 2 The Engine Driver The Gymnast High Above The Ground The Harrowed and the Haunted The Hazards Of Love 1 The Hazards Of Love 2 The Hazards Of Love 3 The Hazards Of Love 4 The Infanta The Island: Come and See / The Landlords Daughter / Youll Not Feel The Drowning The Legionnaires Lament The Mariners Revenge Song The Perfect Crime The Queens Approach The Queens Rebuke The Queens Rebuke / The Crossing The Queens Rebuke / The Crossing The Rakes Song The Singer Addresses His Audience The Soldiering Life The Sporting Life The Tain The Wanting Comes in Waves The Wanting Comes In Waves / Repaid The Wanting Comes In Waves / Repaid The Wrong Year Til the Water's All Long Gone Till The Waters All Long Gone Traveling On Wanting Comes In Waves/Repaid We Both Go Down Together Why Would I Now? Wont Want for Love Won't Want For Love (Margaret In The Taiga) Yankee Bayonet
The Decemberists are an indie folk rock band from Portland, Oregon, United States, fronted by
singer/songwriter/guitarist Colin Meloy. The other members of the band are Chris Funk, Jenny Conlee, Nate Query,
and John Moen.
-Wikipedia
Members:
singer/songwriter/guitarist Colin Meloy. The other members of the band are Chris Funk, Jenny Conlee, Nate Query,
and John Moen.
Colin Meloy - lead singer, songwriter, guitar, bouzouki, harmonica
Chris Funk - guitar, multi-instrumentalist
Jenny Conlee - Hammond organ, accordion, melodica, piano, keyboards, synthesizer, harmonica
Nate Query - bass guitar, double bass, cello
(except Her Majesty... and "Billy Liar" single)
John Moen - drums, backing vocals, melodica, guitar (The Crane Wife, The Hazards of Love, and The King Is Dead)
From: Portland, Oregon, United States
Genre(s): Indie rock, indie folk, folk rock, progressive rock, baroque pop
Active From: 2000-present
Did You Know:
In 2005, they became the first band to release their music video officially via BitTorrent
Awards:
2011
Grammy Award nomination for Best Rock Song - Down By The Water
Quotes:
"When I first started writing these kind of songs that would eventually become Decemberists songs, I was writing them because I knew that nobody was listening at the time and that it wouldn't hurt to challenge myself and get weirder and see if I could alienate more people,"
Colin Meloy
"I don't feel like we're setting ourselves up to be exclusive. I don't want to set up an attitude where we're telling people You can't listen to our music if you don't have a college degree.'
Colin Meloy
There's some things there that you just have to draw the line. Some people are just not going to like it. We would hope that everybody would like it."
Colin Meloy