After the Bombs - The Decemberists (Lyrics)

This song has been uploaded for entertainment purposes only. No profit is being made. All credit goes to The Decemberists and Kill Rock Stars/Capitol Records and EMI.

I noticed there wasn't a clean album version of this song on Youtube. Shame, it's one of my favourites.

After the bombs subside
And this long, low campaign
Calls it good for the night
We meet in the streets
Will we meet in a bar's cold light?
We grip at our hands
We hold just a little tight

After the bombs
After the bombs subside

And after the rockets come
And the glimmer of fire
Pretends an early dawn
We pinch at our skin
While we wonder how we escaped harm
We forget all our trials
All there in our baby's arms

After the rockets
After the rockets come

Then we'll go dancing
Won't we go dancing?
Yes, we'll go dancing
Until it all starts over again

Then we'll go dancing
Yes, we'll go dancing
Won't we go dancing?
Until it all starts over again

Category:

Music

Tags:

• the decemberists
• the crane wife
• after the bombs
• indie
• folk
• rock
• romantic
• sad
• war
• existential quandary

[Somebearo]

@DrPinkReality thank you for putting yourself at risk, and I hope you escape the consequences of the proposed Sopa :)

(I hope all of us do) but we have lived through the golden age of the Internet, where all is free. It is the beginning of the end. And I will now go stand on my virtual street corner and yell about redemption to the passing crowd.

[DrPinkReality]

@Somebearo I think the worst that could come of this is that this video would get taken down, if jeffsalzberg actually reported me (which he should have, logically). I think you need multiple copyright violations to get banned.

Actually, I'm hoping the consequences of SOPA involve the creation of many more paralegal jobs to help with all the litigation which will presumably arise because of how flagrantly unconstitutional the proposed bill is.

[ryanthewise1]

the organ solo in this makes me want to cry.

[xchiaroscura]

@HannahTheHappyHippie That's the cover to The Crane Wife, one of the Decemberists' albums. I cringe for you...

[dubld00ce]

This song makes me so incredibly happy and hopeful. It makes me want to sweep my girlfriend into my arms and just dance around the room. It makes me want to sing at the top of my lungs. It makes me love more.

And apparently it turns me into a sappy sod. :3

[DylanNes]

@jeffsalzberg Listen to yourself: "challenging your violation of other people's intellectual property rights". If you was talking like that I'd kill myself.

[jeffsalzberg]

@DylanNes, if something I posted a month ago, challenging your violation of other people's intellectual property rights, can ruin your day, you must be a very shallow person.

[DylanNes]

@jeffsalzberg Then we probably feel equally sad. Your bitching has effectively ruined my day.

[jeffsalzberg]

@DylanNes, no, other people's lack of ethics makes me sad.

[DylanNes]

@jeffsalzberg Do your morals and values make you feel special?

[EpicLulzKing]

Wonderful song.

[shizznugget]

why isnt this on the copy of the album that i bought



[JohnGonzales001]

@xchiaroscura Why so? This track was a bonus track on the end of The Crane Wife if you got it through iTunes if I remember rightly. So that's the proper cover to use.

[Somebearo]

@DrPinkReality Well then perhaps I should begin studying law and I'll have a job :)

There is always a silver lining.