| The Decemberists – Foregone Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Dear, arise and say it's a honey All this light that, daybreak brings And the ancient bands that brung me To the bed where, you're sleeping safe And we had agreed on Henry, Long before, the flutter felt And so it will be till memory Makes a shadow, of ourselves And the reach and the wrecks and the wrong All would lead to believe that it's not But it's foregone. It's foregone Can it be that this is given? This awakening, from a long dark night Of a soul so on and wizened Sleep away, to set to rights And the reach and the wrecks and the wrong All would lead to believe that it's not But it's foregone. It's foregone It's foregone. It's foregone. And the reach and the wrecks and the wrong All would lead to believe that it's not And the reach and the wrecks and the wrong It's foregone. It's foregone. It's foregone. It's foregone. Carry on, oh, carry on… |
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| The Decemberists – Calamity Song Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Look at that. Andalusia IS in Spain... Well that's embarrassing. ANYHOW This song, as well as others of Meloy's, seem to have references from conflicting eras, places, etc. (Let's not count "My mother was a Chinese trapeze artist". Well all know that was done purely in fun.) It tends to make interpretation difficult. He's probably reading these boards and laughing to himself about how we just don't get it. |
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| The Decemberists – Calamity Song Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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"And I believe California succumbed to the fault line" The first part of the song is about the theory that the next big earthquake will snap the San Andrea's fault line and send California to the sea. "We heaved relief As scores of innocents died" The singer of this song clearly doesn't like Californians. "And the Andalusian tribes Setting the lay of Nebraska alight 'Til all the remains is the arms of the angel" Then it says that after California slips into the ocean, Mexico is going to attack Nebraska until there is no American left in the midwest. Petty green = cash? Not sure who the queen is. Maybe a politician? Basically the premise of the song is a guy dreaming of Mexico conquering America while a conservative politician lady is trying to fix things, but the public doesn't give a damn about the entire situation... Or at least that's what I got out of it... |
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