A rusalka is a spirit of a woman who died in water. Either by accident, suicide, or murder. They use their beauty and their promises of skinny-dipping to lure men into the water, and then they drowned them.
The narrator is a man who is in that young state of mind of rebelling against his parents. He sees a rusalka, gives into her temptations, and she drowns him.
Colin says that he didn't like that there was misogyny in old folk songs, so he wrote a song where it's a man being foolish.
This is the best Decemberists song in nearly a decade.
A rusalka is a spirit of a woman who died in water. Either by accident, suicide, or murder. They use their beauty and their promises of skinny-dipping to lure men into the water, and then they drowned them.
The narrator is a man who is in that young state of mind of rebelling against his parents. He sees a rusalka, gives into her temptations, and she drowns him.
Colin says that he didn't like that there was misogyny in old folk songs, so he wrote a song where it's a man being foolish.
This is the best Decemberists song in nearly a decade.