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The Decemberists - Sons & Daughters
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The Decemberists - Here I Dreamt I Was An Architect
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The Decemberists - Don't Carry It All
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The Decemberists - Down By The Water
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The Decemberists - Lake Song
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The Decemberists - Once In My Life
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The Decemberists - Sucker's Prayer
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The Decemberists - The Crane Wife 1 and 2
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The Decemberists - The Infanta
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The Decemberists - Burial Ground (feat. James Mercer)
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The Decemberists - Make You Better
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The Decemberists - The Engine Driver
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The Decemberists - The Hazards Of Love 1 (The Prettiest Whistles Won't Wrestle The Thistles Undone)
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The Decemberists - The Mariner's Revenge Song
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The Decemberists - Ben Franklin's Song
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The Decemberists - Calamity Song
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The Decemberists - I Was Meant For The Stage
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The Decemberists - Julianne
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The Decemberists - My Mother Was a Chinese Trapeze Artist
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The Decemberists - Red Right Ankle
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The Decemberists - Sleepless
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The Decemberists - The Hazards Of Love 2 (Wager All)
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The Decemberists - The Landlord's Daughter
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The Decemberists - Traveling On
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The Decemberists - Yankee Bayonet (I Will Be Home Then)
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The Decemberists - 12/17/12
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The Decemberists - 16 By 32
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The Decemberists - A Beginning Song
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The Decemberists - A Bower Scene
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The Decemberists - A Cautionary Song
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The Decemberists - All Arise!
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The Decemberists - Angel, Won't You Call Me?
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The Decemberists - Annan Water
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The Decemberists - Anti-Summersong
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The Decemberists - Apology Song
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The Decemberists - As I Rise
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The Decemberists - Better Not Wake The Baby
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The Decemberists - Billy Liar
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The Decemberists - Bridges And Balloons
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The Decemberists - California One
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The Decemberists - California One / Youth And Beauty Brigade
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The Decemberists - Carolina Low
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The Decemberists - Cavalry Captain
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The Decemberists - Clementine
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The Decemberists - Cocoon
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The Decemberists - Constantinople
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The Decemberists - Cullin of the Fold
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The Decemberists - Dear Avery
- 49
The Decemberists - Easy Come, Easy Go
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The Decemberists - Eli, The Barrowboy
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The Decemberists - Everything I Try To Do, Nothing Seems To Turn Out Right
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The Decemberists - Foregone
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The Decemberists - From My Own True Love (lost At Sea)
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The Decemberists - Grace Cathedral Hill
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The Decemberists - Human Behavior
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The Decemberists - I
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The Decemberists - I Don't Mind
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The Decemberists - II
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The Decemberists - III
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The Decemberists - Isn't It A Lovely Night?
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The Decemberists - IV
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The Decemberists - January Hymn
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The Decemberists - July, July!
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The Decemberists - June Hymn
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The Decemberists - Leslie Anne Levine
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The Decemberists - Like A Lion
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The Decemberists - Los Angeles, I'm Yours
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The Decemberists - Margaret In Captivity
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The Decemberists - Mistral
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The Decemberists - O Valencia
- 71
The Decemberists - O Valencia!
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The Decemberists - Oceanside
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The Decemberists - Ocenside
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The Decemberists - Odalisque
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The Decemberists - Of Angels And Angles
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The Decemberists - On The Bus Mall
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The Decemberists - One Engine
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The Decemberists - Philomena
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The Decemberists - Please Daddy (Don't Get Drunk This Christmas)
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The Decemberists - Record Year
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The Decemberists - Rise To Me
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The Decemberists - Riverswim
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The Decemberists - Row Jimmy
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The Decemberists - Rox In The Box
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The Decemberists - Rusalka, Rusalka / Wild Rushes
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The Decemberists - Severed
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The Decemberists - Shankill Butchers
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The Decemberists - Shanty For The Arethusa
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The Decemberists - Shiny
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The Decemberists - Sixteen Military Wives
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The Decemberists - Song For The Myla Goldberg
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The Decemberists - Summersong
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The Decemberists - Sunshine
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The Decemberists - The Abduction Of Margaret
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The Decemberists - The Apology Song
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The Decemberists - The Bachelor And The Bride
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The Decemberists - The Bagman's Gambit
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The Decemberists - The Bandit Queen
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The Decemberists - The Chimbley Sweep
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The Decemberists - The Crane Wife 3
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The Decemberists - The Gymnast, High Above The Ground
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The Decemberists - The Hazards Of Love (Revenge!)
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The Decemberists - The Hazards Of Love 4 (The Drowned)
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The Decemberists - The Island
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The Decemberists - The Island: Come and See, The Landlord's Daughter, You'll Not Feel the Drow
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The Decemberists - The Kingdom Of Spain
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The Decemberists - The Legionnaire's Lament
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The Decemberists - The Perfect Crime 2
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The Decemberists - The Queen's Rebuke / The Crossing
- 110
The Decemberists - The Rake's Song
- 111
The Decemberists - The Singer Addresses His Audience
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The Decemberists - The Soldiering Life
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The Decemberists - The Sporting Life
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The Decemberists - The Tain (Parts I, II, III, IV, V)
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The Decemberists - The Wanting Comes in Waves / Repaid
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The Decemberists - The Wrong Year
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The Decemberists - This Is Why We Fight
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The Decemberists - Till The Water's All Long Gone
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The Decemberists - V
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The Decemberists - Valerie Plame
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The Decemberists - VI
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The Decemberists - We Both Go Down Together
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The Decemberists - When the War Came
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The Decemberists - Why Would I Now?
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The Decemberists - Won't Want For Love (Margaret In The Taiga)
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The Decemberists - Wonder
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The Decemberists - Youth and Beauty Brigade
Red Right Ankle
The Decemberists
And how it came to meet your leg
And how the muscle, bone, and sinews tangled
And how the skin was softly shed
And how it whispered "Oh, adhere to me
For we are bound by symmetry
And whatever differences our lives have been
We together make a limb."
This is the story of your red right ankle.
This is the story of your gypsy uncle
You never knew 'cause he was dead
And how his face was carved and rift with wrinkles
In the picture in your head.
And remember how you found the key
To his hide-out in the Pyrenees
But you wanted to keep his secret safe
So you threw the key away.
This is the story of your gypsy uncle.
This is the story of the boys who loved you
Who love you now and loved you then
And some were sweet, some were cold and snuffed you
And some just laid around in bed.
Some had crumbled you straight to your knees
Did it cruel, did it tenderly
Some had crawled their way into your heart
To rend your ventricles apart
This is the story of the boys who loved you
This is the story of your red right ankle.