The Mariner's Revenge Song (Live)-The Decemberists

[ti:The Mariner's Revenge Song] [ar:The Decemberists] [al:We All Raise Our Voices to the Air (Live Songs 04.11-08.11)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Mariner's Revenge Song (Live) - The Decemberists [01:43.95]We are two mariners [01:45.07] [01:45.58]Our ship's sole survivors [01:47.25] [01:47.94]In this belly of a whale [01:50.24] [01:52.60]It's ribs are ceiling beams [01:54.05] [01:54.76]It's guts are carpeting [01:55.67] [01:56.88]I guess we have some time to kill [01:58.96] [02:01.61]You may not remember me [02:02.84] [02:03.54]I was a child of three [02:05.29] [02:05.93]And you a lad of eighteen [02:07.47] [02:10.34]But I remember you [02:11.32] [02:12.50]And I will relate to you [02:13.70] [02:14.70]How our histories interweave [02:16.74] [02:18.96]At the time you were [02:20.39]A rake and a roustabout [02:23.09] [02:25.22]Spending all your money [02:27.36]On the whores and hounds [02:29.89] [02:31.98]Oh oh [02:33.26] [02:34.20]You had a charming air [02:35.66] [02:36.35]All cheap and debonair [02:37.64] [02:38.48]My widowed mother found so sweet [02:40.56] [02:43.44]So she took you in [02:44.42] [02:45.12]Her sheets still warm with him [02:46.39] [02:47.13]Now filled with filth and foul disease [02:49.16] [02:50.99]As time wore on you proved [02:53.26]A debt ridden drunken mess [02:55.71] [02:57.74]Leaving my mother [02:59.52]A poor consumptive wretch [03:02.52] [03:04.69]Oh oh [03:06.30] [03:07.30]And then you disappeared [03:08.56] [03:09.40]Your gambling arrears [03:10.95] [03:11.53]The only thing you left behind [03:13.44] [03:15.86]And then the magistrate [03:17.09] [03:18.18]Reclaimed our small estate [03:19.52] [03:20.44]And my poor mother lost her mind [03:22.74] [03:24.58]Then one day in spring [03:26.25]My dear sweet mother died [03:28.99] [03:30.45]But before she did [03:32.33]I took her hand as she dying cried [03:35.64] [03:37.74]Oh oh [03:40.17] [03:41.53]Find him find him [03:43.88]Tie him to a pole and break [03:45.92]His fingers to splinters [03:48.03] [03:48.69]Drag him to a hole until he [03:50.95]Wakes up naked [03:52.85] [03:53.41]Clawing at the ceiling [03:55.03]Of his grave [03:56.38] [04:17.76]It took me fifteen years [04:19.64]To swallow all my tears [04:21.13] [04:21.73]Among the urchins in the street [04:23.85] [04:26.51]Until a priory [04:27.32] [04:28.53]Took pity and hired me [04:30.05] [04:30.90]To keep their vestry nice and neat [04:33.21] [04:35.45]But never once in the employ [04:38.53] [04:39.37]Of these holy men [04:40.93] [04:49.16]Did I ever once turn my mind [04:51.92] [04:52.50]From the thought of revenge [04:54.99] [04:56.38]Oh oh [04:59.42] [05:02.16]One night I overheard [05:03.16] [05:03.84]The prior exchanging words [05:05.34] [05:06.02]With a penitent whaler from the sea [05:07.81] [05:10.32]The captain of his ship [05:11.49] [05:12.31]Who matched you toe to tip [05:13.54] [05:14.25]Was known for one cruel deed [05:16.26] [05:17.98]The following day [05:19.47]I shipped to sea [05:20.79]With a privateer [05:22.25] [05:24.28]And in the whistle [05:25.96]Of the wind [05:27.25]I could almost hear [05:28.94] [05:31.59]Oh oh [05:33.32] [05:35.37]Find him find him [05:37.79]Tie him to a pole and break [05:39.92]His fingers to splinters [05:41.99] [05:42.67]Drag him to a hole until he [05:45.07]Wakes up naked [05:46.87] [05:47.45]Clawing at the ceiling [05:49.15]Of his grave [05:50.43] [06:00.32]There is just one thing I must say to you [06:03.52] [06:07.01]As you sail across the sea [06:09.47] [06:12.79]Always your mother will watch over you [06:16.24] [06:18.41]As you avenge this wicked deed [06:21.12] [07:23.79]And then that fateful night [07:24.94] [07:25.99]We had you in our sight [07:27.65] [07:28.39]After twenty months it seemed [07:30.45] [07:32.13]Your starboard flank abeam [07:33.71] [07:34.37]I was getting my muskets clean [07:36.62]When came this rumbling from beneath [07:39.54] [07:47.06]The ocean shook [07:48.94]The sky went black [07:50.13] [07:50.73]And the captain quailed [07:52.74] [07:55.37]And before us grew [07:57.41]The angry jaws [07:59.41]Of a giant a whale [08:03.01] [08:44.72]Don't know how I survived [08:45.84] [08:49.28]The crew all was chewed alive [08:51.74] [08:54.19]I must have slipped between his teeth [08:55.87] [08:58.68]But oh what providence [09:00.09] [09:01.66]What divine intelligence [09:02.77] [09:04.13]You should survive [09:04.99]As well as me [09:06.08] [09:07.85]It gives my eye great joy [09:09.77]To see your eyes fill with fear [09:12.35] [09:14.08]To lean in close [09:15.60]And I will whisper [09:16.95]The last words you'll hear [09:19.22] [09:21.06]Oh oh