Isn't It a Lovely Night? Lyrics

Lyric discussion by kiko21 

Cover art for Isn't It a Lovely Night? lyrics by Decemberists, The

What the heck happens to the baby throughout the rest of the story?

The baby dies at the beggining of the drowned "Margaret array the rocks around the whole before were sinking" ( margaret is burying the child most who seemingly was a still birth due to the rakes abuse)

Later: " tell me now tell me this forests son or rivers daughter?) was it a boy or a girl a willow on the willow wisp, our ghost will walk along the waters) a baby onthe brink of life, OUr ghost ( our child) will walk along the waters... )

actually, the baby's never born. Margaret dies while still pregnant.