Oh, for once in my
Oh, for once in my life
Could just something go
Could just something go right?
Oh, for once in my
Oh, for once in my life
Could just something go
Could just something go right?
I've been waiting all my life
I've been waiting all my life
All my life
My life
Oh, for once in my
Oh, for once in my life
Could just something go
Could just something go right?
I've been waiting all my life
I've been waiting all my life
All my life
My life
All my life
All my life
I've been waiting all my life
I've been waiting all my life
All my life (oh, for once in my, oh, for once in my life)
My life
All my life (oh, for once in my, oh, for once in my life)
All my life
(Oh, for once in my, oh, for once in my life) all my life, all my life, all my life
(Oh, for once in my, oh, for once in my life)
I could wait for hours
I could wait and never fall down
Never fall down
Never fall down
Lay us down
Beside the river
Face down
Beside the river
The Decemberists - I'll Be Your Girl Album Lyrics
The Decemberists - I'll Be Your Girl Lyrics
Writer: Colin Meloy, Georgia Hubley, Ira Kaplan
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Copyright: Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
Cutting Stone
Dreamed I had a cutting stone
Dreamed I held it all my own
It cut through wire, wood, and bone
I'll cut you down, my cutting stone
Cutting stone oh fear me none
Whether wild or whether won
Though I travel far from home
I'll always have my cutting stone
Wandering, I chanced upon
A wayward child lost anon
And when he laid across my chest
My cutting stone it did the rest
Cutting stone oh fear me none
Whether wild or whether won
Though I travel far from home
I'll always have my cutting stone
In a valley green and wide
A suitor wept for a dying bride
And when he turned his eyes on me
A cutting stone did set him free
Cutting stone oh fear me none
Whether wild or whether won
Though I travel far from home
I'll always have my cutting stone
Cutting stone oh fear me none
Whether wild or whether won
Though I travel far from home
I'll always have my cutting stone
There upon a mountaintop
I looked down on to what I'd wrought
And when I saw my labors through
I cut my cutting stone in two
Cutting stone oh fear me none
Whether wild or whether won
Though I travel far from home
I'll always have my cutting stone
I'll always have my cutting stone
I'll cut you down, my cutting stone
Dreamed I held it all my own
It cut through wire, wood, and bone
I'll cut you down, my cutting stone
Cutting stone oh fear me none
Whether wild or whether won
Though I travel far from home
I'll always have my cutting stone
Wandering, I chanced upon
A wayward child lost anon
And when he laid across my chest
My cutting stone it did the rest
Cutting stone oh fear me none
Whether wild or whether won
Though I travel far from home
I'll always have my cutting stone
In a valley green and wide
A suitor wept for a dying bride
And when he turned his eyes on me
A cutting stone did set him free
Cutting stone oh fear me none
Whether wild or whether won
Though I travel far from home
I'll always have my cutting stone
Cutting stone oh fear me none
Whether wild or whether won
Though I travel far from home
I'll always have my cutting stone
There upon a mountaintop
I looked down on to what I'd wrought
And when I saw my labors through
I cut my cutting stone in two
Cutting stone oh fear me none
Whether wild or whether won
Though I travel far from home
I'll always have my cutting stone
I'll always have my cutting stone
I'll cut you down, my cutting stone
Writer: Colin Meloy
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Copyright: Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
Severed
I alight like a whisper
I alight with the lights out
And it won't take me long just to find you
And it won't take me long just to find you
I'm allied to the winter
But don't you get clever
Don't you get clever
I'm allied to the landslide
Gonna leave you all severed
Gonna leave you all severed
I alone am the answer
I alone will make wrongs right
But in order to root out the cancer
It's got to be kept from the sunlight
I'm allied to the winter
But don't you get clever
Don't you get clever
I'm allied to the landslide
Gonna leave you all severed
Gonna leave you all severed
I was born to a jackal
I was born in a whiteout
Gonna smother you all 'til I choke you
Gonna smother you all 'til you kick out
I'm allied to the winter
But don't you get clever
Don't you get clever
I'm allied to the landslide
Gonna leave you all severed
Gonna leave you all severed
I alight with the lights out
And it won't take me long just to find you
And it won't take me long just to find you
I'm allied to the winter
But don't you get clever
Don't you get clever
I'm allied to the landslide
Gonna leave you all severed
Gonna leave you all severed
I alone am the answer
I alone will make wrongs right
But in order to root out the cancer
It's got to be kept from the sunlight
I'm allied to the winter
But don't you get clever
Don't you get clever
I'm allied to the landslide
Gonna leave you all severed
Gonna leave you all severed
I was born to a jackal
I was born in a whiteout
Gonna smother you all 'til I choke you
Gonna smother you all 'til you kick out
I'm allied to the winter
But don't you get clever
Don't you get clever
I'm allied to the landslide
Gonna leave you all severed
Gonna leave you all severed
Writer: Colin Meloy
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Copyright: Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
Starwatcher
Starwatcher
Starwatcher in the night
Starwatcher
Starwatcher bend the light
There's a rider on the road
There's calamity awaiting to unfold
There is poison in the well
There's the arbor of a distant ringing bells
It's says hold, hold, hold your ground
Skywatcher
Skywatcher rules the day
Skywatcher
Skywatcher cruel and fey
There are figures on the shore
At the laundromat, they're whispering of war
There's a lady on the stair
All a-shambling with thistles in her hair
Singing hold, hold, hold your ground
Hold, hold, hold your ground
Starwatcher
Starwatcher in the night
Starwatcher in the night
Starwatcher
Starwatcher bend the light
There's a rider on the road
There's calamity awaiting to unfold
There is poison in the well
There's the arbor of a distant ringing bells
It's says hold, hold, hold your ground
Skywatcher
Skywatcher rules the day
Skywatcher
Skywatcher cruel and fey
There are figures on the shore
At the laundromat, they're whispering of war
There's a lady on the stair
All a-shambling with thistles in her hair
Singing hold, hold, hold your ground
Hold, hold, hold your ground
Starwatcher
Starwatcher in the night
Writer: Colin Meloy
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Copyright: Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
Tripping Along
We were tripping tripping tripping tripping tripping along
While you're orbiting, might I?
While you're orbiting, might I?
Lick you sticky sticky sticky sticky sticky and sweep
They're all turning a blind eye
They're all turning a blind eye
But oh what I'd do just to lie with you die in your arms
What wouldn't I give just to live with that sense of alarm?
But your relatives gathered all clamber about for your mind
And they're tearing and swearing to leave you all naked and blind
So we keep a-ripping ripping ripping ripping rips in the sheets
'Till it's all coming undone
'Till it's all coming undone
And we're drippy drippy drippy drippy, what messes are we?
And I'm due for a line out
And I'm due for a light out
But just as I'm cusping on slumber and dumbing my eyes
What spin-twisting vision comes listing and jelly alike?
And bothering toddles all over this beautiful light
This fickle young sister's away in the dimming of night
La de da de da de da da da
Da de da de da de da da da
Da de da de da de da da da
Da de da de da de da da da
Da de da de da de da da da
Da de da de da de da da da
Da de da de da de da da da da
While you're orbiting, might I?
While you're orbiting, might I?
Lick you sticky sticky sticky sticky sticky and sweep
They're all turning a blind eye
They're all turning a blind eye
But oh what I'd do just to lie with you die in your arms
What wouldn't I give just to live with that sense of alarm?
But your relatives gathered all clamber about for your mind
And they're tearing and swearing to leave you all naked and blind
So we keep a-ripping ripping ripping ripping rips in the sheets
'Till it's all coming undone
'Till it's all coming undone
And we're drippy drippy drippy drippy, what messes are we?
And I'm due for a line out
And I'm due for a light out
But just as I'm cusping on slumber and dumbing my eyes
What spin-twisting vision comes listing and jelly alike?
And bothering toddles all over this beautiful light
This fickle young sister's away in the dimming of night
La de da de da de da da da
Da de da de da de da da da
Da de da de da de da da da
Da de da de da de da da da
Da de da de da de da da da
Da de da de da de da da da
Da de da de da de da da da da
Writer: Colin Meloy
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Copyright: Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
Your Ghost
Along the old sea wall
Inside the banquet hall
Below the cellar's stair
Maybe you'll find me there
Your ghost, oh your ghost
Your ghost
And when you take your rest
My weight upon your breast
And should you close your eyes
I'll still materialize
Your ghost, oh your ghost
Your ghost
Na na na na na
Na na na na na
And at your final end
When you are free again
No longer long to be
You will be belong to me
Your ghost, oh your ghost
Oh your ghost, oh your ghost
Na na na na na
Na na na na na
Na na na na na
Na na na na na
Na na na na na na
Na na na na na na
Na na na na na na
Na na na na na na
Your ghost, oh your ghost
Ghost
Na na na na na
Na na na na na
Na na na na na
Na na na na na
Inside the banquet hall
Below the cellar's stair
Maybe you'll find me there
Your ghost, oh your ghost
Your ghost
And when you take your rest
My weight upon your breast
And should you close your eyes
I'll still materialize
Your ghost, oh your ghost
Your ghost
Na na na na na
Na na na na na
And at your final end
When you are free again
No longer long to be
You will be belong to me
Your ghost, oh your ghost
Oh your ghost, oh your ghost
Na na na na na
Na na na na na
Na na na na na
Na na na na na
Na na na na na na
Na na na na na na
Na na na na na na
Na na na na na na
Your ghost, oh your ghost
Ghost
Na na na na na
Na na na na na
Na na na na na
Na na na na na
Writer: Colin Meloy
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Copyright: Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
Everything Is Awful
Everything, everything, everything, everything, everything, thing
Everything, everything, everything, everything, everything is awful
Oh everything, everything, everything, everything, everything, thing
Everything, everything, everything, everything, everything is awful
Everything is awful, everything is
What's that crashing sound
follows us around?
That's the sound of all things good breaking
Put your fears to rest
You know it's for the best
As a choir of angels sings
Everything, everything, everything, everything, everything, thing
Everything, everything, everything, everything, everything is awful
Oh everything, everything, everything, everything, everything, thing
Everything, everything, everything, everything, everything is awful
Everything is awful, everything is
I know you've worked so hard
To hoist your own petard
Must be so nice the point caught in your side
Lay down your heavy head
It's safer here in bed
And let those voice ring
Everything, everything, everything, everything, everything, thing
Everything, everything, everything, everything, everything is awful
Oh everything, everything, everything, everything, every little thing
Everything, everything, everything, everything, everything is awful (every little thing)
Everything is awful, everything is
La la la la la
La la la la awful
Everything is
La la la la la
La la la la awful
Would you kindly keep it down?
La la la la la
La la la la awful
Just try to get some sleep
La la la la la
La la la la awful
Everything is
Everything, everything, everything, everything, everything is awful
Oh everything, everything, everything, everything, everything, thing
Everything, everything, everything, everything, everything is awful
Everything is awful, everything is
What's that crashing sound
follows us around?
That's the sound of all things good breaking
Put your fears to rest
You know it's for the best
As a choir of angels sings
Everything, everything, everything, everything, everything, thing
Everything, everything, everything, everything, everything is awful
Oh everything, everything, everything, everything, everything, thing
Everything, everything, everything, everything, everything is awful
Everything is awful, everything is
I know you've worked so hard
To hoist your own petard
Must be so nice the point caught in your side
Lay down your heavy head
It's safer here in bed
And let those voice ring
Everything, everything, everything, everything, everything, thing
Everything, everything, everything, everything, everything is awful
Oh everything, everything, everything, everything, every little thing
Everything, everything, everything, everything, everything is awful (every little thing)
Everything is awful, everything is
La la la la la
La la la la awful
Everything is
La la la la la
La la la la awful
Would you kindly keep it down?
La la la la la
La la la la awful
Just try to get some sleep
La la la la la
La la la la awful
Everything is
Writer: Colin Meloy
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Copyright: Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Songtrust Ave
Suckers Prayer
I was not ready for the road
I was so discontent to wear that heavy load
And so I got down on my knees
I made a sucker's prayer
A grim bode of baudelaire before
And when nobody did respond
I took my glasses off and went to find a pond
Stuffing rocks into the pockets of my pants
And when I waded in
Those currents carried them away
I wanna love somebody but I don't know how
I've been so long lonely and it's getting me down
I wanna throw my body in the river and drown
I wanna love somebody but I don't know how
So if you're lost along the way
And if you're thinking that will always be the case
Won't you listen to my plea?
You'll make a sucker's prayer
Just go and leave it that-a-way
I wanna love somebody but I don't know how
I've been so long lonely and it's getting me down
I wanna throw my body in the river and drown
I wanna love somebody but I don't know how
I wanna love somebody but I don't know how
I was so discontent to wear that heavy load
And so I got down on my knees
I made a sucker's prayer
A grim bode of baudelaire before
And when nobody did respond
I took my glasses off and went to find a pond
Stuffing rocks into the pockets of my pants
And when I waded in
Those currents carried them away
I wanna love somebody but I don't know how
I've been so long lonely and it's getting me down
I wanna throw my body in the river and drown
I wanna love somebody but I don't know how
So if you're lost along the way
And if you're thinking that will always be the case
Won't you listen to my plea?
You'll make a sucker's prayer
Just go and leave it that-a-way
I wanna love somebody but I don't know how
I've been so long lonely and it's getting me down
I wanna throw my body in the river and drown
I wanna love somebody but I don't know how
I wanna love somebody but I don't know how
Writer: Colin Meloy
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Copyright: Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
We All Die Young
It was late one night, I was counting out my stitches
Laying by the side of the road
I was a long time gone and slipping off my britches
Feeling like it's time to go home
Yeah, feeling like it's time to go home
And in this dream, Bill Tecumseh Sherman
Glowered at the foot of my bed
He was long and lean, he spoke in perfect German
And I recorded all that he said
Yeah, I recorded all that he said
And he said
We all die young
We all die young
We all die young
We all die young
When I woke next day, layered in the lashings
Feeling for the hole in my head
I was thinking 'bout my dad, thinking 'bout the nashings
Of all the bitter things that he said
Yeah, all the worrying things that he had said
And he said
We all die young
We all die young
We all die young
We all die young
Son, he said
We all die young
(We all die young)
We all die young
(We all die young)
We all die young
(We all die) we all die young
And it came to pass when everything had ended
The world was just a grubby balloon
And I spoke up, said sorry if I've offended
This voice came from the back of the room
Oh, screaming from the back of the room
It said
We all die young
(We all die young)
We all die young
(We all die young)
We all die young
We all die, we all die young
One more time
We all die young
Bill Tecumseh Sherman We all die young
We all die young
Sorry if I've offended We all die young
We all die young
We all die, we all die young
(We all die young)
(We all die young)
We all die, we all die young
(We all die young)
(We all die young)
We all die, we all die young
Laying by the side of the road
I was a long time gone and slipping off my britches
Feeling like it's time to go home
Yeah, feeling like it's time to go home
And in this dream, Bill Tecumseh Sherman
Glowered at the foot of my bed
He was long and lean, he spoke in perfect German
And I recorded all that he said
Yeah, I recorded all that he said
And he said
We all die young
We all die young
We all die young
We all die young
When I woke next day, layered in the lashings
Feeling for the hole in my head
I was thinking 'bout my dad, thinking 'bout the nashings
Of all the bitter things that he said
Yeah, all the worrying things that he had said
And he said
We all die young
We all die young
We all die young
We all die young
Son, he said
We all die young
(We all die young)
We all die young
(We all die young)
We all die young
(We all die) we all die young
And it came to pass when everything had ended
The world was just a grubby balloon
And I spoke up, said sorry if I've offended
This voice came from the back of the room
Oh, screaming from the back of the room
It said
We all die young
(We all die young)
We all die young
(We all die young)
We all die young
We all die, we all die young
One more time
We all die young
Bill Tecumseh Sherman We all die young
We all die young
Sorry if I've offended We all die young
We all die young
We all die, we all die young
(We all die young)
(We all die young)
We all die, we all die young
(We all die young)
(We all die young)
We all die, we all die young
Writer: Colin Meloy
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Copyright: Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
Rusalka Rusalka / Wild Rushes
Rusalka, Rusalka your arms out of water
Your hair like an alien bloom
Dark-eyed Rusalka, your brow tressed in flowers
Pale in a liminal moon
And all that you are is a star on the water
When first I went swimming, I heeded no warning
And dared breach your rippling pool
As I lulled and lingered, the ring slipped my finger
And drifted down the deepening cool
And all that I want is to fall in your shallows
And now we are wed, the water our bed
And bank to bank a property lake
And you are my wild-eyed rusalka, my river bride
Drag me down, take me away
And here we will lie, you and I, 'neath the cold, dark sky
Beware the wild rushes, my mother told me
That grow on the bank side along the salt sea
But I being young, I heeded her none
So to the wild rushes the wind carried me
The summer was here and the sun it was high
And to the wild rushes I came by and by
And there took my seat and dipped in my feet
When through the wild rushes, a voice sweetly cried
Come down, my little darling, come closer to me
The water is warm; it is salty and free
I long for your touch but I won't ask too much
And I, being foolish, walked in to my knees
Come down, little darling, and lay at my breast
Oh come a little closer and I'll do the rest
I waited so long for a lover to come
And I, being foolish, walked in to my chest
Come down, my little darling, oh farther come in
For deeper the water, the sweeter the sin
My lily lies here, if you'd only draw near
And I, being foolish, went in to my chin
Oh come, my little darling, do you feel my cool breath?
Do you feel my arms around you so warm and so wet?
Swept from my feet, she pulled me beneath
And in the wild rushes, I went to my death
Your hair like an alien bloom
Dark-eyed Rusalka, your brow tressed in flowers
Pale in a liminal moon
And all that you are is a star on the water
When first I went swimming, I heeded no warning
And dared breach your rippling pool
As I lulled and lingered, the ring slipped my finger
And drifted down the deepening cool
And all that I want is to fall in your shallows
And now we are wed, the water our bed
And bank to bank a property lake
And you are my wild-eyed rusalka, my river bride
Drag me down, take me away
And here we will lie, you and I, 'neath the cold, dark sky
Beware the wild rushes, my mother told me
That grow on the bank side along the salt sea
But I being young, I heeded her none
So to the wild rushes the wind carried me
The summer was here and the sun it was high
And to the wild rushes I came by and by
And there took my seat and dipped in my feet
When through the wild rushes, a voice sweetly cried
Come down, my little darling, come closer to me
The water is warm; it is salty and free
I long for your touch but I won't ask too much
And I, being foolish, walked in to my knees
Come down, little darling, and lay at my breast
Oh come a little closer and I'll do the rest
I waited so long for a lover to come
And I, being foolish, walked in to my chest
Come down, my little darling, oh farther come in
For deeper the water, the sweeter the sin
My lily lies here, if you'd only draw near
And I, being foolish, went in to my chin
Oh come, my little darling, do you feel my cool breath?
Do you feel my arms around you so warm and so wet?
Swept from my feet, she pulled me beneath
And in the wild rushes, I went to my death
Writer: Colin Meloy
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Copyright: Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
Ill Be Your Girl
When the summer days live to bore you
And the river lies long before you
And the one that you love ignores you
I'll be your girl
Like a senator works a full room
Like a lover undone by full moon
Like a lily alive in full bloom
I'll be your girl
And when the tempests rage and all the oceans roar
At your door
I could be your man but I'd be that much more
And more
So when everything soft abrades you
When fortune has long betrayed you
And you're longing for an arm to stay you
I'll be your girl
And when the tempests rage and all the oceans roar
At your door
I could be your man but I'd be that much more
And more
So if you're ever feeling less your time due
Like someone bereft and lied to
And you never need a guy to guide you
I'll be your girl
I'll be your girl
I'll be your girl
And the river lies long before you
And the one that you love ignores you
I'll be your girl
Like a senator works a full room
Like a lover undone by full moon
Like a lily alive in full bloom
I'll be your girl
And when the tempests rage and all the oceans roar
At your door
I could be your man but I'd be that much more
And more
So when everything soft abrades you
When fortune has long betrayed you
And you're longing for an arm to stay you
I'll be your girl
And when the tempests rage and all the oceans roar
At your door
I could be your man but I'd be that much more
And more
So if you're ever feeling less your time due
Like someone bereft and lied to
And you never need a guy to guide you
I'll be your girl
I'll be your girl
I'll be your girl
Writer: Colin Meloy
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Copyright: Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
I'll Be Your Girl is the eighth studio album by the American indie rock band The Decemberists, released on March 16, 2018 on Capitol and Rough Trade. Produced by John Congleton, the band experimented with new instrumentation during the album's recording sessions, including several synth-based compositions inspired by New Order and Depeche Mode.
The album was preceded by the singles "Severed" and "Once in My Life".
Performed By:
The DecemberistsThe album was preceded by the singles "Severed" and "Once in My Life".
Genre(s): Folk rock, synthpop
Producer(s): John Congleton
Length: 43:06
Released: March 16th, 2018
Year: 2018