Posted on April 13th, 2009 at 11:29 pm

(The Drowned)

Margaret array the rocks around the hull before we’re sinking
A million stones, a million bones, a million holes within the chinking
And painting rings around your eyes these peppers holes so filled with crying
A whisper weighed upon the tattered down where you and I were lying

Tell me now, tell me this, a forest’s son, a river’s daughter
A willow wand, a will-o-wisp, our ghosts will wander all of the water
So let’s be married here today these rushing waves to bear our witness
And we will lie like river stones rolling only where it takes us

But I pulled you
And I called you here
(Didn’t I, didn’t I)
And I caught you
And I brought you here
(Didn’t I, didn’t I)
These hazards of love
Never more will trouble us

Margaret the lapping waves are licking quietly at our ankles
Another bow, another breath, this brilliant chill has come for to shackle
With this long last rush of air, let’s speak our vows and starry whisper
And when the waves came crashing down he closed his eyes and softly kissed her

Singing but I pulled you
And I called you here
(Didn’t I, didn’t I)
And I caught you
And I brought you here
(Didn’t I, didn’t I)
These hazards of love
Never more will trouble us
And these hazards of love
Never more will trouble us

[The Hazards Of Love 4: The Decemberists]

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