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We sailed away on a winter's day
With fate as malleable as clay
But ships are fallible, I say
And the nautical, as all things, fades
And I do recall our caravel
A little wicker beetle shell
With four fine maste and lateen sails
It's bearings on Cair Paravel
Oh, my love
Oh, it was a funny little thing
To be the ones to see
The sight of bridges and balloons
Makes calm canaries irritable
And they caw and claw all afternoon
Catenaries and dirigibles
Brace and buoy the living room
A loom of metals warp woof wimble
And a thimble's worth of milky moon
Can touch hearts larger than a thimble
Oh, my love
Oh, it was a funny little thing
To be the ones to see
Oh, my love
Oh, it was a funny little thing
It was a funny, funny little thing
With fate as malleable as clay
But ships are fallible, I say
And the nautical, as all things, fades
And I do recall our caravel
A little wicker beetle shell
With four fine maste and lateen sails
It's bearings on Cair Paravel
Oh, my love
Oh, it was a funny little thing
To be the ones to see
The sight of bridges and balloons
Makes calm canaries irritable
And they caw and claw all afternoon
Catenaries and dirigibles
Brace and buoy the living room
A loom of metals warp woof wimble
And a thimble's worth of milky moon
Can touch hearts larger than a thimble
Oh, my love
Oh, it was a funny little thing
To be the ones to see
Oh, my love
Oh, it was a funny little thing
It was a funny, funny little thing
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
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I love both versions of this song, and mostly the fact that it connects two fabulous musicians.
also, this version of the songs seems to be two chords for the verse, two others that are involved in the chorus. I don't know anything about music though so does anyone know which chords these are so I can demand that a friend of mine learn it on guitar?
It's quite possible he fucked up the lyrics, if you youtube the song you can see the actual video of the take that's on Picaresqueities, it's just Colin and it's live, so it might have been just a preliminary take before they decided to axe it from the full length. Just a thought.
i absolutely love this song (perhaps even more the decemberists' cover) but i do think these lyrics errors are non-intentional.
did colin fuck up?
evanreyes, it's on the Picaresqueties EP (five outtakes from the album), which is only available on the double LP vinyl or on the iTunes music store...