The Decemberists Lyrics

5. The Bachelor And The Bride

There's a wrinkle in the water 
where we laid our first daughter 
And I think the wind blows so sweetly there 
Over there 
And the windows and the cinders 
And the willows in the timbers 
The infernal rattling of the rain 
still remains 

"But I" said the bachelor to the bride 
"Am not waiting for tonight. 
No, I will box your ears 
and leave you here stripped bare." 

Hear the corncrakes and the deerhooves 
And the sleet rain on the slate roof 
A medallion locked inside her hand 
in her hand 
And his fingers are they telling 
of the barren of her belly 
And his callouses cure her furrowed brow 
even now 

"But I," said the bachelor to the bride 
"am not waiting for tonight. 
No, I will box your ears 
and leave you here stripped bare." 

"But I," said the bachelor to the bride 
"am not waiting for tonight. 
No, I will box your ears 
and take your tears 
and leave you, leave you here 
stripped bare."

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