Till the Water's All Long Gone Lyrics

Lyric discussion by beatricemw 

Cover art for Till the Water's All Long Gone lyrics by Decemberists, The

hmmmmm.... I can't quite place it, but I could swear this was an old fey tale something about faeries, who need to drink the water from the fountain of their home up in the mountains to remain immortal, and without it die and fade to dust? the story goes that some of them long to know the world of mortals far away from their home, intending to return before their time runs out and they die, but one falls in love with a mortal man and bears a child (through some sort of magical means, of course, even a faerie can't survive nine months without taking a drink) does this ring a bell to anybody?? I can't quite remember and it's bothering the hell out of me, and it has been since the album came out....

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