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Riff: The Decemberists – “The Wrong Year”

Dec 18, 2014

Sing me some eidolon/And I’ll sleep all the winter long/Till then I can only be/Nobody’s gonna intervene/And she wants you but you won’t do/And it won’t leave you alone/And the rain falls on the wrong year/And it won’t leave you alone

from The Wrong Year lyrics by The Decemberists

Another dance between connection and disconnection as a riverchild named Gray Jane can’t find her way in this ‘terrible‘, ‘beautiful’ world Colin Meloy has assembled a new PNW conflict with, an accordion lull, some token Portland rain and $1000 word or two lilting the folk chanty endearing as ever.

Riff by Gavin Paul

Gavin Paul is SONGLYRICS' Editor-in-Chief. Chicago-bred, New York-sculpted, his words and ideas have appeared in publications ranging from Spin and Rolling Stone to The Chicago Sun-Times and Arborist News.

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