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Uploaded on Mar 19, 2009

from Playlist : The Decemberists - Hazards of Love
(full CD) album
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  • bloodynyphm

    I thought he was literally a rake...

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  • bloodynyphm

    I thought the song sounded happy. Someone further up said it got all maniacal but I think it's just kinda jamming. The scary one is when his children come back to haunt him and the girl who was drowned start singing and the scary violin starts up. Maybe it's just me but there are a lot more brutal things out there and I think this song does a pretty good job getting the character across. In my head he's a very nasty looking rake.

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  • thefieryfury

    i can't understand what some of the word sare in this song

    & what does it have to do with the rake??

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  • Hikaruchan44

    This is my favorite song on the album, love it <3

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    in playlist The Decemberists - The Hazards of Love Full Album
  • maloryannemai

    Woah! That's pretty effed up! I still like the album though.

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  • Qpenguin98

    is this the full song?

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  • heeeythatsmybike

    The Hazards of Love is more-or-less a rock opera where the plot-line is continued and expanded on in all of songs instead of each song having its own separate complete story-line like your average album. So the story/plot = the whole album. I highly recommend listening to the entire thing in correct order if you have the time; it's an awesome story and all of the guest vocalists are amazing (unf, Shara Warden/'s voice <3).

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  • heeeythatsmybike

    Not at all! That's how I envision him too, smirking at how clever he was to win his "freedom" back even though it came at--what normal people would consider--a ghastly, unthinkable price. It's almost like he's bragging about murdering children. One of the most unsettling things about the song is how calm and upbeat the Rake seems (especially when he sings "alright, alright, alright").

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  • Biverix

    Ha, I love people who comment on Decemberists' songs.

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  • Npowell01

    Guys, "rake", as used in this song, is an archaic term for an immoral or dissolute person. The internet told me. I accessed her brain by pressing ctrl+T and typing the magic G word. Honest.

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  • UnDeadGamers

    Mariner's Revenge from the perspective of the Rake?

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