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THE DECEMBERISTS lyrics : "The Crane Wife 1 & 2"


[1]


It was a cold night
And the snow lay low
I pulled my coat tight

Against the falling down
And the sun was all
And the sun was all down

And the sun was all
And the sun was all down


I am a poor man
I haven't wealth nor fame
I have my two hands

And a house to my name
And the winter's so
And the winter's so long

And the winter's so
And the winter's so long


And all the stars were crashing 'round
As I laid eyes on what I'd found


It was a white crane
It was a helpless thing
Upon a red stain

With an arrow its wing
And it called and cried
And it called and cried so

And it called and cried
And it called and cried so


And all the stars were crashing 'round
As I laid eyes on what I'd found
My crane wife, my crane wife

My crane wife, my crane wife

Now I helped her

And I dressed her wounds
And how I held her
Beneath the rising moon

And she stood to fly
And she stood to fly away
And she stood to fly

She stood to fly away

And all the stars were crashing 'round

As I laid eyes on what I'd found
My crane wife, my crane wife
My crane wife, my crane wife


[2]


My crane wife arrived at my door in the moonlight
All star bright and tongue-tied I took her in
We were married and bells rang sweet for our wedding

And our bedding was ready when we fell in

The sound of the keening bell

To see its pain erect
Soft as fontenelle
The feathers and the thread

And all I ever meant to do was to keep you
My crane wife
My crane wife

My crane wife

We were poorly, our fortunes fading hourly

And how she loved me, she could bring it back
But I was greedy, I was vain and I forced her to weaving
On a cold loom, in a closed room down the hall


The sound of the keening bell
And to see its pain erect

Soft as fontenelle
The feathers and the thread
And all I ever meant to do was to keep you
My crane wife
My crane wife


There's a bend in the wind and it rakes at my heart
There is blood in the thread and it rakes at my heart
It rakes at my heart


My crane wife

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