[16:08.00]The Crane Wife 1, 2, and 3 - The Decemberists
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[1]
[16:08.00]It was a cold night
[16:08.00]And the snow lay low
[16:08.00]I pulled my coat tight
[16:08.00]Against the falling down
[16:08.00]And the sun was all
[16:08.00]And the sun was all down
[16:08.00]And the sun was all
[16:08.00]And the sun was all down
[16:08.00]I am a poor man
[16:08.00]I haven't wealth nor fame
[16:08.00]I have my two hands
[16:08.00]And a house to my name
[16:08.00]And the winter's so
[16:08.00]And the winter's so long
[16:08.00]And the winter's so
[16:08.00]And the winter's so long
[16:08.00]And all the stars were crashing 'round
[16:08.00]As I laid eyes on what I'd found
[16:08.00]It was a white crane
[16:08.00]It was a helpless thing
[16:08.00]Upon a red stain
[16:08.00]With an arrow it's wing
[16:08.00]And it called and cried
[16:08.00]And it called and cried so
[16:08.00]And it called and cried
[16:08.00]And it called and cried so
[16:08.00]And all the stars were crashing 'round
[16:08.00]As I laid eyes on what I'd found
[16:08.00]My crane wife, my crane wife
[16:08.00]My crane wife, my crane wife
[16:08.00]Now I helped her
[16:08.00]And I dressed her wounds
[16:08.00]And how I held her
[16:08.00]Beneath the rising moon
[16:08.00]And she stood to fly
[16:08.00]And she stood to fly away
[16:08.00]And she stood to fly
[16:08.00]She stood to fly away
[16:08.00]And all the stars were crashing 'round
[16:08.00]As I laid eyes on what I'd found
[16:08.00]My crane wife, my crane wife
[16:08.00]My crane wife, my crane wife
[2]
[16:08.00]My crane wife arrived at my door in the moonlight
[16:08.00]All star bright and tongue-tied I took her in
[16:08.00]We were married and bells rang sweet for our wedding
[16:08.00]And our bedding was ready when we fell in
[16:08.00]The sound of the keening bell
[16:08.00]To see it's pain erect
[16:08.00]Soft as fontenelle
[16:08.00]The feathers and the thread
[16:08.00]And all I ever meant to do was to keep you
[16:08.00]My crane wife
[16:08.00]My crane wife
[16:08.00]My crane wife
[16:08.00]We were poorly, our fortunes fading hourly
[16:08.00]And how she loved me, she could bring it back
[16:08.00]But I was greedy, I was vain and I forced her to weaving
[16:08.00]On a cold loom, in a closed room down the hall
[16:08.00]The sound of the keening bell
[16:08.00]And to see it's pain erect
[16:08.00]Soft as fontenelle
[16:08.00]The feathers and the thread
[16:08.00]And all I ever meant to do was to keep you
[16:08.00]My crane wife
[16:08.00]My crane wife
[16:08.00]There's a bend in the wind and it rakes at my heart
[16:08.00]There is blood in the thread and it rakes at my heart
[16:08.00]It rakes at my heart
[16:08.00]My crane wife