the decemberists-the crane wife

**ABYSS** · 12-07-2006, 03:27 AM

The Crane Wife 3

And under the bowsunbelle
I'll hold in the snowy shroud
She had no heart so hardened
All under the bowsunbelle

Each feather it fell from skin
'Till thread bare and she grew thin
How were my eyes so blinded?
Each feather it fell from skin

And I will hang my head hang my head low
And I will hang my head hang my head low

Her grey sky with bitter skin
A rain cloud rain on me
All out behind horizon oh
A grey sky of bitter skin

And I will hang my head hang my head low
And I will hang my head hang my head low

The Island: Come & See / The Landlord's Daughter / You'll Not Feel The Drowning"

[Come & See]

There's an island hidden in the sound
Lapping currents lay your boat to ground
Affix your barb and bayonet
The curlews carve their Arabesques
And sorrow fills the silence all around
Come and see

There's a harbor lost within the reeds
A jetty caught in over-hanging trees
Among the bones of cormorants
No boot mark here nor finger prints
The rivers roll down to a soundless sea
Come and see
Come and see

The tides will come and go
With this bare waking eye
Who rose like the wind
Though we know for sure
Amidst this fading light
We'll not go home again
Come and see
Come and see

In the lowlands nestled in the heat
A briar cradle rocks it's babe to sleep
Its :-):-):-):-):-):-):-)s watched by Sycorax
And patagon in paralax
A foretold rumbling sounds below the deep
Come and see
Come and see

The tides will come and go
Witnessed by no waking eye
Who rose like the wind
Though we know for sure
Amidst this fading light
We'll not go home again
Come and see
Come and see

[The Landlord's Daughter]

As I was rambled
Down by the water
I spied in sable
The landlord's daughter
Produced my pistol then my saber
To make no whistle or thou will be murdered

She cursed she shivered
She cried for mercy
"My gold and silver if thou will release me!"

I'll take no gold miss I'll take no silver
I'll take those sweet lips and I'll deliver

[You'll Not Feel The Drowning]

I will dress your eyelids
With dimes upon your eyes
Laying close to water
Green your grave will rise
Go to sleep little ugly
Go to sleep you little fool
Forty-winking in the belfry
You'll not feel the drowning
You'll not feel the drowning

Forget you once had sweethearts
They've forgotten you
Think you not on parents
They've forgotten too
Go to sleep now little ugly
Go to sleep now you little fool
Forty-winking in the belfry
You'll not feel the drowning
You'll not feel the drowning

Go to sleep little ugly
Go to sleep little fool
Forty-winking in the belfry
You'll not feel the drowning
You'll not feel the drowning

Hear you now the captain
Heed his sorrowed cry
"Weight upon your eyelids
As dimes laid on your eyes"

Yankee Bayonet (I Will Be Home Then)

Heart-carved tree trunk Yankee bayonet
A sweetheart left behind
Far from the hills of the sea-swelled Carolinas
That's where my true love lies

Look for me when the sun-bright swallow
Sings upon the birch bough high
But you are in the ground with the voles and the weevils
All a'chew upon your bones so dry

But when the sun breaks
To no more bulletin battle-cry
Then will you make a grave
For I will be home then
I will be home then
I will be home then
I will be home then
Then

When I was a girl how the hills of Oconee
Made a seam to hem me in
There at the fair when our eyes caught careless
Got my heart right pierced by a pin

But oh did you see all the dead of Manassas
All the bellies and the bones and the bile
Though I lingered here with the blankets barren
And my own belly big with child

But when the sun breaks
To no more bulletin battle-cry
Then will you make a grave
For I will be home then
I will be home then
I will be home then
I will be home then

Stems and bones and stone walls too
Could keep me from you
Scaly skin is all too few
To keep me from you

But oh my love though our bodies may be parted
Though our skin may not touch skin
Look for me with the sun-bright sparrow
I will come on the breath of the wind

O Valencia!

You belong to the gang
And you say you can't break away
But I'm here with my hands on my heart

Our families can't agree
I'm your brother's sworn enemy
But I'll shout out my love to the stars

So wait for the stone on your window your window
Wait by the car and we'll go we'll go

When first we laid eyes
I swore to no compromise
'Til I felt my caress on your skin

Well how soon we were betrayed
Your sister gave us away
And your father came all unhinged

So wait for the stone on your window your window
Wait by the car and we'll go we'll go

Oh Valencia
With your blood still warm on the ground
Valencia
And I swear to the stars
I'll burn this whole city down

All I heard was a shout
Of your brother calling me out
And you ran like a fool to my side

Well the shot it hit hard
And your frame went limp in my arms
And the lull of love was your dying cry

So wait for the stone on your window your window
Wait by the car and we'll go we'll go

Oh Valencia
With your blood still warm on the ground
Valencia
And I'll burn this whole city down
Valencia
With your blood still warm on the ground
Valencia
And I swear to the stars
I'll burn this whole city down

The Perfect Crime #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 the signal tower
The moguls daughter in hard time
The mogul figures a one guy one guys

It was a perfect the perfect the perfect the perfect crime
It was a perfect the perfect the perfect the perfect crime

The bagman's quaking at the fingers
The hand-off glance a little lingers
A well-dressed man in the crosshairs
A shot rings out from somewhere upstairs

It was a perfect the perfect the perfect the perfect the perfect the perfect crime
It was a perfect the perfect the perfect the perfect the perfect the perfect crime

It was the perfect crime

It was like a ticker-tape parade
When the last of the safe was blown away
And we all gaze from eye to eye
As we mouth our silent goodbyes

The valley's sleeping like a bastard
It stinks of slumber and disaster
Two words are spoken with tap wire
The agent's pull finds a surefire backfire

It was a perfect the perfect the perfect the perfect the perfect the perfect crime
It was a perfect the perfect the perfect the perfect the perfect the perfect crime

When The War Came

With all the grain of babylon
To cultivate to make us strong
And hidden here behind the walls
Are shoulders wide and timber on
'Til the war came
'Til the war came

A terrible autonomy
Is grafted onto you and me
A trust put in the government
Is all their lies are heaven sent
'Til the war came
'Til the war came

And the war came with a curse and a caterwaul
And the war came with all the poise of a cannonball
And they're picking out a rise by coal and candlelight
When the war came the war came hard

We made our huts of avaram
We'd not betray the sole Ledum
The acres of hysterisy
To our own pangs of starvation
When the war came
When the war came

And the war came with a curse and a caterwaul
And the war came with all the poise of a cannonball
And they're picking out a rise by coal and candlelight
When the war came the war came hard

With all the grain of Babylon

Shankhill Butchers

The Shankill butchers ride tonight
You better shut your windows tight
Theyre sharpening their cleavers and their knives
And taking all their whisky by the pint
Cuz everybody knows
If you dont mind your mother's words
A wicked wind will blow
Your ribbons from your curls
Everybody moan everybody shake
The shankill butchers wanna catch you
Awake

They used to be just like me and you
They used to be sweet little boys
But something went horribly askew
Now killing is their only source of joy
Cuz everybodys knows...

[repeat]

The shankill butchers on the rise
Theyre waiting till the dead of night
Theyre picking at their fingers with their knives
And wiping off their cleavers on their thighs
Cuz everybod knows...

[repeat]

The shankill butchers wanna kill you
The shankill butchers wanna cut you
The shankill butchers wanna catch you
Awake
Awake
Awake
Awake

Summersong

Ramblin' where to begin
I taste the summer on your peppery skin
Been saved the warmer the waves
I felt a slip into a watery grave

My girl linen and curls
Lips parting like a flag all unfurled
She's grand the bend of her hand
Digging deep into the sweep of the sand

Summer arrives with a length of lights
Summer blows away
And quietly gets swallowed by a wave
It gets swallowed by a wave

Waylay the din of the day
Boats bobbing in the blue of the bay
In deep far beneath all the dead sailors
Slowly slipping to sleep

My girl linen and curls
Lips parting like a flag all unfurled
She's grand the bend of her hand
Digging deep into the sweep of the sand

Summer arrives with a length of lights
Summer blows away
And quietly gets swallowed by a wave
It gets swallowed by a wave...

The Crane Wife 1 & 2

[1]

It was a cold night
And the snow lay low
I pulled my coat tight
Against the falling down
And the sun was all
And the sun was all down
And the sun was all
And the sun was all down

I am a poor man
I haven't wealth nor fame
I have my two hands
And a house to my name
And the winter's so
And the winter's so long
And the winter's so
And the winter's so long

And all the stars were crashing 'round
As I laid eyes on what I'd found

It was a white crane
It was a helpless thing
Upon a red stain
With an arrow its wing
And it called and cried
And it called and cried so
And it called and cried
And it called and cried so

And all the stars were crashing 'round
As I laid eyes on what I'd found
My crane wife my crane wife
My crane wife my crane wife

Now I helped her
And I dressed her wounds
And how I held her
Beneath the rising moon
And she stood to fly
And she stood to fly away
And she stood to fly
She stood to fly away

And all the stars were crashing 'round
As I laid eyes on what I'd found
My crane wife my crane wife
My crane wife my crane wife

[2]

My crane wife arrived at my door in the moonlight
All star bright and tongue-tied I took her in
We were married and bells rang sweet for our wedding
And our bedding was ready when we fell in

The sound of the keening bell
To see its pain erect
Soft as fontenelle
The feathers and the thread
And all I ever meant to do was to keep you
My crane wife
My crane wife
My crane wife

We were poorly our fortunes fading hourly
And how she loved me she could bring it back
But I was greedy I was vain and I forced her to weaving
On a cold loom in a closed room down the hall

The sound of the keening bell
And to see its pain erect
Soft as fontenelle
The feathers and the thread
And all I ever meant to do was to keep you
My crane wife
My crane wife

There's a bend in the wind and it rakes at my heart
There is blood in the thread and it rakes at my heart
It rakes at my heart

My crane wife

Sons And Daughters

When we arrive
Sons & daughters
We'll make our homes on the water
We'll build our walls aluminum
We'll fill our lives with cinnamon now

These currents pull us 'cross the border
Steady your boats
Arms to shoulder
'till tides are pulled
Hold our grounds
Making this cold harbor now home

Take up your arm
Sons and daughters
We will arise from the bunkers
By land by sea by dirrigible
We'll leave our tracks untraceable now

When arrive
Sons and daughters
We'll make our lives on the water
We'll build our walls aluminum
We'll fill our mouths cinnamon

When we arrive
Sons and daughters
We'll make our homes on the water
We'll build our walls aluminum
We'll fill our mouths cinnamon
(when we arrive sons and daughters
We'll make our homes underwater
When we build our walls of aluminum
We'll fill our mouths with cinnamon)

Here all the bombs fade away
Here all the bombs fade away
Here all the bombs fade away
Here all the bombs fade away

12-07-2006, 03:27 AM	#1 (permalink)
ABYSS Administrator	the decemberists-the crane wife The Crane Wife 3 And under the bowsunbelle I'll hold in the snowy shroud She had no heart so hardened All under the bowsunbelle Each feather it fell from skin 'Till thread bare and she grew thin How were my eyes so blinded? Each feather it fell from skin And I will hang my head hang my head low And I will hang my head hang my head low Her grey sky with bitter skin A rain cloud rain on me All out behind horizon oh A grey sky of bitter skin And I will hang my head hang my head low And I will hang my head hang my head low The Island: Come & See / The Landlord's Daughter / You'll Not Feel The Drowning" [Come & See] There's an island hidden in the sound Lapping currents lay your boat to ground Affix your barb and bayonet The curlews carve their Arabesques And sorrow fills the silence all around Come and see There's a harbor lost within the reeds A jetty caught in over-hanging trees Among the bones of cormorants No boot mark here nor finger prints The rivers roll down to a soundless sea Come and see Come and see The tides will come and go With this bare waking eye Who rose like the wind Though we know for sure Amidst this fading light We'll not go home again Come and see Come and see In the lowlands nestled in the heat A briar cradle rocks it's babe to sleep Its :-):-):-):-):-):-):-)s watched by Sycorax And patagon in paralax A foretold rumbling sounds below the deep Come and see Come and see The tides will come and go Witnessed by no waking eye Who rose like the wind Though we know for sure Amidst this fading light We'll not go home again Come and see Come and see [The Landlord's Daughter] As I was rambled Down by the water I spied in sable The landlord's daughter Produced my pistol then my saber To make no whistle or thou will be murdered She cursed she shivered She cried for mercy "My gold and silver if thou will release me!" I'll take no gold miss I'll take no silver I'll take those sweet lips and I'll deliver [You'll Not Feel The Drowning] I will dress your eyelids With dimes upon your eyes Laying close to water Green your grave will rise Go to sleep little ugly Go to sleep you little fool Forty-winking in the belfry You'll not feel the drowning You'll not feel the drowning Forget you once had sweethearts They've forgotten you Think you not on parents They've forgotten too Go to sleep now little ugly Go to sleep now you little fool Forty-winking in the belfry You'll not feel the drowning You'll not feel the drowning Go to sleep little ugly Go to sleep little fool Forty-winking in the belfry You'll not feel the drowning You'll not feel the drowning Hear you now the captain Heed his sorrowed cry "Weight upon your eyelids As dimes laid on your eyes" Yankee Bayonet (I Will Be Home Then) Heart-carved tree trunk Yankee bayonet A sweetheart left behind Far from the hills of the sea-swelled Carolinas That's where my true love lies Look for me when the sun-bright swallow Sings upon the birch bough high But you are in the ground with the voles and the weevils All a'chew upon your bones so dry But when the sun breaks To no more bulletin battle-cry Then will you make a grave For I will be home then I will be home then I will be home then I will be home then Then When I was a girl how the hills of Oconee Made a seam to hem me in There at the fair when our eyes caught careless Got my heart right pierced by a pin But oh did you see all the dead of Manassas All the bellies and the bones and the bile Though I lingered here with the blankets barren And my own belly big with child But when the sun breaks To no more bulletin battle-cry Then will you make a grave For I will be home then I will be home then I will be home then I will be home then Stems and bones and stone walls too Could keep me from you Scaly skin is all too few To keep me from you But oh my love though our bodies may be parted Though our skin may not touch skin Look for me with the sun-bright sparrow I will come on the breath of the wind O Valencia! You belong to the gang And you say you can't break away But I'm here with my hands on my heart Our families can't agree I'm your brother's sworn enemy But I'll shout out my love to the stars So wait for the stone on your window your window Wait by the car and we'll go we'll go When first we laid eyes I swore to no compromise 'Til I felt my caress on your skin Well how soon we were betrayed Your sister gave us away And your father came all unhinged So wait for the stone on your window your window Wait by the car and we'll go we'll go Oh Valencia With your blood still warm on the ground Valencia And I swear to the stars I'll burn this whole city down All I heard was a shout Of your brother calling me out And you ran like a fool to my side Well the shot it hit hard And your frame went limp in my arms And the lull of love was your dying cry So wait for the stone on your window your window Wait by the car and we'll go we'll go Oh Valencia With your blood still warm on the ground Valencia And I'll burn this whole city down Valencia With your blood still warm on the ground Valencia And I swear to the stars I'll burn this whole city down The Perfect Crime #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 the signal tower The moguls daughter in hard time The mogul figures a one guy one guys It was a perfect the perfect the perfect the perfect crime It was a perfect the perfect the perfect the perfect crime The bagman's quaking at the fingers The hand-off glance a little lingers A well-dressed man in the crosshairs A shot rings out from somewhere upstairs It was a perfect the perfect the perfect the perfect the perfect the perfect crime It was a perfect the perfect the perfect the perfect the perfect the perfect crime It was the perfect crime It was like a ticker-tape parade When the last of the safe was blown away And we all gaze from eye to eye As we mouth our silent goodbyes The valley's sleeping like a bastard It stinks of slumber and disaster Two words are spoken with tap wire The agent's pull finds a surefire backfire It was a perfect the perfect the perfect the perfect the perfect the perfect crime It was a perfect the perfect the perfect the perfect the perfect the perfect crime When The War Came With all the grain of babylon To cultivate to make us strong And hidden here behind the walls Are shoulders wide and timber on 'Til the war came 'Til the war came A terrible autonomy Is grafted onto you and me A trust put in the government Is all their lies are heaven sent 'Til the war came 'Til the war came And the war came with a curse and a caterwaul And the war came with all the poise of a cannonball And they're picking out a rise by coal and candlelight When the war came the war came hard We made our huts of avaram We'd not betray the sole Ledum The acres of hysterisy To our own pangs of starvation When the war came When the war came And the war came with a curse and a caterwaul And the war came with all the poise of a cannonball And they're picking out a rise by coal and candlelight When the war came the war came hard With all the grain of Babylon Shankhill Butchers The Shankill butchers ride tonight You better shut your windows tight Theyre sharpening their cleavers and their knives And taking all their whisky by the pint Cuz everybody knows If you dont mind your mother's words A wicked wind will blow Your ribbons from your curls Everybody moan everybody shake The shankill butchers wanna catch you Awake They used to be just like me and you They used to be sweet little boys But something went horribly askew Now killing is their only source of joy Cuz everybodys knows... [repeat] The shankill butchers on the rise Theyre waiting till the dead of night Theyre picking at their fingers with their knives And wiping off their cleavers on their thighs Cuz everybod knows... [repeat] The shankill butchers wanna kill you The shankill butchers wanna cut you The shankill butchers wanna catch you Awake Awake Awake Awake Summersong Ramblin' where to begin I taste the summer on your peppery skin Been saved the warmer the waves I felt a slip into a watery grave My girl linen and curls Lips parting like a flag all unfurled She's grand the bend of her hand Digging deep into the sweep of the sand Summer arrives with a length of lights Summer blows away And quietly gets swallowed by a wave It gets swallowed by a wave Waylay the din of the day Boats bobbing in the blue of the bay In deep far beneath all the dead sailors Slowly slipping to sleep My girl linen and curls Lips parting like a flag all unfurled She's grand the bend of her hand Digging deep into the sweep of the sand Summer arrives with a length of lights Summer blows away And quietly gets swallowed by a wave It gets swallowed by a wave... The Crane Wife 1 & 2 [1] It was a cold night And the snow lay low I pulled my coat tight Against the falling down And the sun was all And the sun was all down And the sun was all And the sun was all down I am a poor man I haven't wealth nor fame I have my two hands And a house to my name And the winter's so And the winter's so long And the winter's so And the winter's so long And all the stars were crashing 'round As I laid eyes on what I'd found It was a white crane It was a helpless thing Upon a red stain With an arrow its wing And it called and cried And it called and cried so And it called and cried And it called and cried so And all the stars were crashing 'round As I laid eyes on what I'd found My crane wife my crane wife My crane wife my crane wife Now I helped her And I dressed her wounds And how I held her Beneath the rising moon And she stood to fly And she stood to fly away And she stood to fly She stood to fly away And all the stars were crashing 'round As I laid eyes on what I'd found My crane wife my crane wife My crane wife my crane wife [2] My crane wife arrived at my door in the moonlight All star bright and tongue-tied I took her in We were married and bells rang sweet for our wedding And our bedding was ready when we fell in The sound of the keening bell To see its pain erect Soft as fontenelle The feathers and the thread And all I ever meant to do was to keep you My crane wife My crane wife My crane wife We were poorly our fortunes fading hourly And how she loved me she could bring it back But I was greedy I was vain and I forced her to weaving On a cold loom in a closed room down the hall The sound of the keening bell And to see its pain erect Soft as fontenelle The feathers and the thread And all I ever meant to do was to keep you My crane wife My crane wife There's a bend in the wind and it rakes at my heart There is blood in the thread and it rakes at my heart It rakes at my heart My crane wife Sons And Daughters When we arrive Sons & daughters We'll make our homes on the water We'll build our walls aluminum We'll fill our lives with cinnamon now These currents pull us 'cross the border Steady your boats Arms to shoulder 'till tides are pulled Hold our grounds Making this cold harbor now home Take up your arm Sons and daughters We will arise from the bunkers By land by sea by dirrigible We'll leave our tracks untraceable now When arrive Sons and daughters We'll make our lives on the water We'll build our walls aluminum We'll fill our mouths cinnamon When we arrive Sons and daughters We'll make our homes on the water We'll build our walls aluminum We'll fill our mouths cinnamon (when we arrive sons and daughters We'll make our homes underwater When we build our walls of aluminum We'll fill our mouths with cinnamon) Here all the bombs fade away Here all the bombs fade away Here all the bombs fade away Here all the bombs fade away

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