The Decemberists - The Tain (Parts I, Ii, Iii, Iv, V) Lyrics

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[chorus of waifs:] lay me down.

[soldier:] to sleep.

[chaplain:] and now stricken with pangs

That tear at our backs like thistle down

The mirror's soft silver tain

Reflects our last and birthing hour

[soldier:] here com loose his hounds

To blow me down.

[chorus of waifs:] blow me down.

[soldier:] on this stretch of ground

I'll lay me down.

[chorus of waifs:] lay me down.

[soldier:] to sleep.

[PART IV]

[evening]

[widow:] o the wind is

Blowing it hurts your skin

As you climb up hillside forest and fen.

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Your arms full of lullabies orchids and wine

Your memories wrapped within paper and twine.

The room that you lie in is dusty and hard

Sleeping soft babies on piles of yards

Of gingham taffeta cotton and silk

Your dry hungry mouths cry for

Your mother's milk.

When the dawn commes to greet you

You'll rise with clothes on

And advance with the others singing old songs

Of cattle and maidens and withered old queens.

Let the music carry you on.

The room that you lie in is dusty and hard

Sleeping soft babies on piles of yards

Of gingham taffeta cotton and silk

Your dry hungry mouths cry for

Your mother's milk.

[PART V]

[woman:] darling dear what have you done?

Your clothes are town your make-up runs.

[daughter:] i ran through

Brambles blooming thistle

I washed my face in the river

When you whistled me on.

[woman:] darling dear what hav eyou done?

Your hands and face are smeared with blood.

[daughter:] the chaplain came and called me out

To beat and to butcher his mother's sow

[woman:] but darling dear they found him dead

This morning on the riverbed.

But hush now darling don't you cry.

Your reward's in the sweet by-and -by.

Hush now baby don't you cry.

Your reward's in the sweet by-and-by.

[crone:] and now we've seen your powers

Softly stretch the hours

You're a fickle little twister

Are you sweet on your sister?

As now you go wandering home.

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