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The Decemberists - 5 Songs

NME.COM feature on The Decemberists - 5 Songs album including album review, artwork, tracks, listen now, tour dates, discography and more.

Release date: 04 March 2003

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  1. Oceanside
  2. Shiny
  3. My Mother Was a Chinese Trapeze Artist
  4. Angel, Won't You Call Me?
  5. I Don't Mind
  6. The Apology Song
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The Decemberists - 5 Songs Lyrics

The Decemberists - Oceanside Lyrics

Sweet Anabelle, as seen reclining on an ocean swell
As the waves do lather up to lay her down
'Til she's fast and sleeping

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The Decemberists - Shiny Lyrics

By the bumper cars in the pretty twining light
I may have gone too far, I may have gone too much, too long
I'm a dull and witless boy
In the after bars, think I was sullied by a dream

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The Decemberists - My Mother Was A Chinese Trapeze Artist Lyrics

My mother was a Chinese trapeze artist, pre-war in Paris
Smuggling bombs for the underground
And she met my father at a fete in Aix-en-Provence
He was disguised as a Russian cadet in the employ of the Axis

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The Decemberists - Angel, Won't You Call Me? Lyrics

Angel won't you call me?
Could I be the only
Though I am a lost cause
Angel won't you call me?

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The Decemberists - I Don't Mind Lyrics

Truly with his thorn in your side
And you don't know why
Julie dips her toe in the tide
And you don't know why

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The Decemberists - Apology Song Lyrics

I'm really sorry, Steven
But your bicycle's been stolen
I was watchin' it for you 'til you came back in the fall
I guess I didn't do such a good job after all

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