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[Colin]
Mother I can hear your foot-fall now
Soft disturbance in the dead-fall how
It proceeds you like a black smoke pall
Still the wanting comes in waves
And you delivered me from danger then
Pulled my cradle from the reedy glen
Swore to save me from the world of men
Still the wanting comes in waves
In waves
And waves
And the wanting comes in waves
And the wanting comes in waves
And I want this night
And I want this night
Oh
[Shara]
How I made you
I wrought you, I pulled you
From war I labored you
From cancer I cradled you
And now
This is how I am repaid
This is how I am repaid
Remember when I found you
The miseries that hounded you
And I gave you motion
Anointed with lotions
And now
This is how I am repaid
This is how I am repaid
[Colin]
Mother hear this proposition right
Grant me freedom to enjoy this night
And I'll return to you at break of light
For the wanting comes in waves
And waves
And waves
Still the wanting comes in waves
Still the wanting comes in waves
Still the wanting comes in waves
And you owe me life
And you owe me life
[Shara]
And if I grant you this favor to hand you
Your life for the evening
I will retake by morning
And so
Consider it your debt repaid
Consider it your debt repaid
Repaid
Repaid
Mother I can hear your foot-fall now
Soft disturbance in the dead-fall how
It proceeds you like a black smoke pall
Still the wanting comes in waves
And you delivered me from danger then
Pulled my cradle from the reedy glen
Swore to save me from the world of men
Still the wanting comes in waves
In waves
And waves
And the wanting comes in waves
And the wanting comes in waves
And I want this night
And I want this night
Oh
[Shara]
How I made you
I wrought you, I pulled you
From war I labored you
From cancer I cradled you
And now
This is how I am repaid
This is how I am repaid
Remember when I found you
The miseries that hounded you
And I gave you motion
Anointed with lotions
And now
This is how I am repaid
This is how I am repaid
[Colin]
Mother hear this proposition right
Grant me freedom to enjoy this night
And I'll return to you at break of light
For the wanting comes in waves
And waves
And waves
Still the wanting comes in waves
Still the wanting comes in waves
Still the wanting comes in waves
And you owe me life
And you owe me life
[Shara]
And if I grant you this favor to hand you
Your life for the evening
I will retake by morning
And so
Consider it your debt repaid
Consider it your debt repaid
Repaid
Repaid
Lyrics submitted by lazzyhorse
Track duration: 06:26
"The Wanting Comes in Waves/Repaid" as written by Colin Meloy
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"Swore to save me from the world of men" - For a split second, I wondered if he was gay. Then I crossed that off my mental list of possibilities.
Running with the assumption that Margie and Will are singing from afar, I'm going to assume that Will is waiting for Mom (Queen) and knows that she did some nice forest voodoo magic to save him from scorn, but his wanting for Margie is upon him and he is tired of keeping some old woman company.
On a sidenote, the Queen makes her grand appearance with some pretty bada** music and strong vocals. Very nice.
Anywho, Queen agrees Will can have one night with Marge. Either they've been singing from afar, and he can now go to her; or they're already together, and they get to finish out their night. The first seems to make more sense at the moment.
The Queen is very reminiscent of how the fae are characterized, also known as the Fair Folk (if you use their actual names or unkind words you might summon them -- also why the Queen isn't named through the album). Think Titania and Oberon and A Midsummer Night's Dream: Selfish, needy, capricious, and no understanding of humanity or human relationships. It's natural for a mother to be protective of her son, and be upset that her little boy is becoming independent/in danger of getting his heart broken. It's NOT natural to be grasping after your son (most likely a fully grown young man) and sullenly reverse-Oedipusly jealous of his lady-love.
The fae are also very prone to kidnapping babies and transforming people and making deals that go very very bad for the other guy... I don't think the Queen is necessarily the Queen of Fairies, but pretty similar.
Also, Shara Worden is freaking amazing.
That's called a Jocasta complex. I has the knowings. :)
It gives me chills and butterflies and makes me smile.
Hahahah, I think I'm in love with it.
Stop over analyzing it.
You could, you know, not read the discussion.
I could be wrong (I've misplaced my CD case recently), but it seems to me this line is:
"How it precedes you like a black smoke pall"
A pall is "anything that covers, shrouds, or overspreads, esp. with darkness or gloom." That certainly fits with the context of these first couple of stanzas, and after listening to it several times, I'm pretty sure I hear "pall."
why did she change him into fawn? beats me. the lady is crazy.
but the song is amazing, and Shona Warden blows me away.
That's my two cents (not adjusted for inflation;)
Godspeed.
entoumbed in a cradle of clay doeasn't really translate to jar of ashes, and the rakes son was of age to fight back when the rake beat him to death and burned his body to hide the evidence... william was a baby when the queen found him abandoned, the rakes son issiac was buried. william was found in a reedy glen .... see where there are some missing links? william was turned into a fawn during the day to further distance him from mankind. he is only his human form at night when he is better kept out of sight. The rake was not put up to stealing Margaret by the queen but out of lust he kid napped her to rape and kill her, the queen just aided in his crossing the river because the rake would be cutting off williams connection to mankind.... ie margerat