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[mandysee_mandydo]

And this is why I love The Decemberists. With lyrics like these that tell a story, how could I not?

The Mariner's Revenge Song

We are two mariners
Our ship's sole survivors
In this belly of a whale
It's ribs are ceiling beams
It's guts are carpeting
I guess we have some time to kill

You may not remember me
I was a child of three
And you, a lad of eighteen
But, I remember you
And I will relate to you
How our histories interweave
At the time you were
A rake and a roustabout
Spending all your money
On the whores and hounds
(oh, oh)

You had a charming air
All cheap and debonair
My widowed mother found so sweet
And so she took you in
Her sheets still warm with him
Now filled with filth and foul disease
As time wore on you proved
A debt-ridden drunken mess
Leaving my mother
A poor consumptive wretch
(oh, oh)

And then you disappeared
Your gambling arrears
The only thing you left behind
And then the magistrate
Reclaimed our small estate
And my poor mother lost her mind
Then, one day in spring
My dear sweet mother died
But, before she did
I took her hand as she, dying, cried:
(oh, oh)

"Find him, find him
Tie him to a pole and break
His fingers to splinters
Drag him to a hole until he
Wakes up naked
Clawing at the ceiling
Of his grave"

It took me fifteen years
To swallow all my tears
Among the urchins in the street
Until a priory
Took pity and hired me
To keep their vestry nice and neat
But, never once in the employ
Of these holy men
Did I ever, once turn my mind
From the thought of revenge
(oh, oh)

One night I overheard
The prior exchanging words
With a penitent whaler from the sea
The captain of his ship
Who matched you toe to tip
Was known for one cruel deed
The following day
I shipped to sea
With a privateer
And in the whistle
Of the wind
I could almost hear
(oh, oh)

"Find him, find him
Tie him to a pole and break
His fingers to splinters
Drag him to a hole until he
Wakes up naked
Clawing at the ceiling
Of his grave

There is one thing I must say to you
As you sail across the sea
Always, your mother will watch over you
As you avenge this wicked deed"

And then, that fateful night
We had you in our sight
After twenty months, it seemed
Your starboard flank abeam
I was getting my muskets clean
When came this rumbling from beneath
The ocean shook
The sky went black
And the captain quailed
And before us grew
The angry jaws
Of a giant whale

(oh..)

Don't know how I survived
The crew all was chewed alive
I must have slipped between his teeth
But, oh, what providence
What divine intelligence
That you should survive
As well as me
It gives my eye great joy
To see your eyes fill with fear
To lean in close
And I will whisper
The last words you'll hear
(oh, oh)

Comments

[naked-banana.livejournal.com]

yeah guess who?????????

the one who cant figure out how to post a blog here yet.....but i did get the live journal as you suggested.

me

[srturtle.livejournal.com]

Cool! Welcome to LJ!

[(Anonymous)]

it's depressing, awesome, creepy and great. how did you come across this song/band?
-sabrina www.xanga.com/jennacat246

[srturtle.livejournal.com]

Well, it all started one fateful night while I was up late and had the tele on. I happened across a Boston music video show called RageTV that plays at 1:30 am Saturdays. They played the video for "Sixteen Military Wives" by The Decemberists and I was immediately hooked. So I did some searching around and found some more of their tunes, at which point I found among them "The Mariner's Revenge Song." It's one of my favorites, but I think my favorite thus far would have to be a toss-up between "Sixteen Military Wives" and "From My Own True Love (Lost At Sea)."

http://www.thedecemberists.com

yeah well

[naked-banana.livejournal.com]

i still havent figured out how to make a blog here, and i cant get my dam vids to send to someone so im just not having the most computer literate days. lol

Re: yeah well

[srturtle.livejournal.com]

Ahh. If you just go to the main page of LiveJournal and login, you'll see at the top a little menu that has Journal, Manage, Search, Help and About. Put your mouse over Journal and another menu appears under it with the first option being Update. Click on Update and it will take you to the place you need to go for entering a new post.

Hope that helps!