| The Decemberists – Annan Water Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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The official liner notes lists this as the final verse: "So calm your waves and slow the churn And you may have my precious bones on my return And you may have my precious bones And I will call your depths my home And you may have my precious bones on my return" I wonder why it was changed? |
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| The Decemberists – The Tain (Parts I, II, III, IV, V) Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Don't worry, I'm a stickler for pronunciation as well. It bugs me to hear people at their concerts yelling out "The Tain!" and rhyming it with 'rain'. Maybe it's just the Irish in me, but it bothers me still. :-P | |
| The Decemberists – The Hazards of Love 4 (The Drowned) Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| The liner notes list William and Margaret, but not either of the narrators (first/second voice). | |
| The Decemberists – The Hazards of Love 4 (The Drowned) Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Good point. After having read the official liner notes, I realized I must've been on something either when I listened to the album or when writing that post. | |
| The Decemberists – The Hazards of Love 4 (The Drowned) Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I dunno...I was of the impression that during "Revenge!", the Rake's children that he killed came back to haunt him, and at the same time all the evil deeds had caused him to snap, so he took Margaret back to the Annan and drowned her during "The Wanting Comes in Waves (Reprise)". As William is crossing the Annan, he sees the Rake drowning Margaret, so trying to defend his love, he attacks the Rake, but he is too late, and the Rake gets away. William he swears his love to Margaret, and kills himself so he won't have to be with her. I also for some reason believe that when it is the "narrator" singing, it is actually the Rake, as some sort of suicide-note thing. He, like William, had "fallen in love" with Margaret (really more of an obsession with her), and when he learns of her tryst with William, he strikes up a deal with the Queen to take Margaret away, so her "innocent child" will be protected from the hazards of love, and also so he can be with his "true love" (a win-win situation). That would kind of explain why it opens with "*MY* true love..." but then seems to switch to the third person. It's almost as if the Rake is a stalker-ish type, and after he had first seen Margaret (well before the events in the story), he had "fallen in love" with her (become obsessed; she was beautiful so he must have her). He'd followed her around, and saw that she had fallen in love with (and been impregnated by) the forest prince, William. (And kids aren't the Rake's strong suit, which may/may not add to anything.) Then the last line of "The Drowned" is sung by the Rake (who may/may not also sing the "I pulled/called/caught/brought you here" line, though it makes sense for William to sing this as well), before an echo of the chorus, sung by William (seems to be the general consensus), is heard. I think that after the Rake got away, he returned, and watched William with Margaret's body from afar, and, realizing that theirs was really true love, a big difference from his obsession, that he had been wrong all along. So perhaps he returns to his fortress, writes down the story, and kills himself? A lot of what I've just written isn't explicitly referred to in the album, but that's how the story has unfolded in my head since the first time I listened to it. |
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| Colin Meloy – Cherry Tree Carol Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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@beowolfe03: Technically it's *not* the only Christmas song from CM/Decemberists. The latter actually did a cover of John Denver's "Please Daddy (Don't Get Drunk This Christmas)". Technically it's a Christmas song, and I happen to like it very much. While CM doesn't exactly have a "country voice", so-to-speak, it is funny to hear him howl the high notes in a very drunken fashion :-P |
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| The Decemberists – Sixteen Military Wives Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| 'Six' seems to be a common theme. I did some math, and it adds up. (Mostly, I was bored, so I decided to look for clues in this song that probably aren't really there :-P ). 'Six' is the first sound you hear. It also carries through mathmatically...well, the way I did it anyway. I thought it was interesting. I may upload my "homework" if anyone else is as crazy as me and wants to see how I did everything :-P Draw your own conclusions from there. | |
| Fair to Midland – (Tibet) Dance of the Manatee Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Too lazy to read absolutely everything :-P Does anyone else think that a lot of this song sounds like it was recorded, then reversed? I'm also to lazy to reverse the song, but parts of it almost sound like he learned how to say the words in reverse, did, and then they reversed it again to make it right. Maybe that'll add to the meaning, I dunno. Just a thought. | |
| The Decemberists – The Tain (Parts I, II, III, IV, V) Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| My copy doesn't have this skip...I dunno. I don't hear what y'all're talking about :-P | |
| The Decemberists – After the Bombs Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Has anyone else noticed that this song sounds like something they might play at a soldier's funeral? That's how this song has always caught me. | |
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