The Hazards of Love 4 (The Drowned) Lyrics

Lyric discussion by deathwriter08 

Cover art for The Hazards of Love 4 (The Drowned) lyrics by Decemberists, The

I hope their child survived. If there was a slight reference in a song later on, about an orphan who's parents were drowned by a river...

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Oh there will be.

Guys, the child dies at the beggining of the song:

"Margaret, array the rocks around the hole before we're sinking Margarat hurry and cover the grave we need to rush over the waters

And painting rings around your eyes, these peppered holes too filled with crying her eyes are so red and swollen from crying that they are bloodshot ( peppered)

Tell me now, tell me this, a forest's son, a river's daughter Tell me was it a boy or was it a girl? A willow on the will-o'-wisp, our ghost to wander all of the water Our baby who dies before growing,...