The Decemberists - Picaresque
NME.COM feature on The Decemberists - Picaresque album including album review, artwork, tracks, listen now, tour dates, discography and more.
Release date: 13 September 2005
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- We Both Go Down Together
- The Infanta
- Eli, the Barrow Boy
- The Sporting Life
- From My Own True Love (Lost at Sea)
- The Bagman's Gambit
- 16 Military Wives
- The Engine Driver
- Of Angels and Angles
- On the Bus Mall
- The Mariner's Revenge Song
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The Decemberists - Picaresque Lyrics
The Decemberists - Infanta Lyrics
Here she comes in her palanquin
On the back of an elephant
On a bed made of linen and sequins and silk
The Decemberists - Mariner's Revenge Song Lyrics
We are two mariners
Our ship's sole survivors
In this belly of a whale
It's ribs our ceiling beams
The Decemberists - On The Bus Mall Lyrics
In matching blue raincoats our shoes were our show boats
We kicked around
From stairway to station we made a sensation
With the gadabout crowd
The Decemberists - Engine Driver Lyrics
I'm an engine driver
On a long run, on a long run
Would I work beside her
She's a long one, such a long one
The Decemberists - Sixteen Military Wives Lyrics
Sixteen military wives
Thirty-two softly-focused, brightly-colored eyes
Staring at the natural tan
Of thirty-two gently clenching wrinkled little hands
The Decemberists - (from My Own True Love) Lost At Sea Lyrics
Four score years
Living down in this rain swept town
Sea salt tears
Swimming round as the rain comes down
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The Decemberists - Bagman's Gambit Lyrics
On the lam from the law, on the steps of the capitol
You shot a plain clothes cop on the ten o'clock
And I saw momentarily
They flashed with photograph, it couldn't be you
The Decemberists - Sporting Life Lyrics
I fell on the playing field, the work of an errant heel
The din of the crowd and the loud commotion
Went deafening silence and stopped emotion
The season was almost done, we managed it 12 to 1
The Decemberists - Eli, The Barrow Boy Lyrics
Eli, the barrow boy of the old town
Sells coal and marigolds and he cries out all down the day
Below the tamaracks he is crying
Corn cobs and candle wax for the buying all down the day
The Decemberists - We Both Go Down Together Lyrics
Here on these cliffs of Dover
So high you can't see over
And while your head is spinning
Hold tight it's just beginning
The Decemberists - Of Angels And Angles Lyrics
There are angels in your angles
There's a low moon caught in your tangles
There's a ticking at the sill
There's a purr of a pigeon to break the still of day
