The Decemberists Dictionary

Fun fact, the silky altar cloth that we're offering through the Midwest Gothic Oracle Kickstarter doubles as a terribly stylish scarf!

- A Cautionary Song, "With dirty hands and trousers torn they grapple til she's safe within their keeping" 

- My Mother was a Trapeze Artist, "To a lone concertina, they drank in cantinas" 

- The Legionnaire's Lament, "On the old left bank, my baby in a charabanc, riding up the width and length of the Champs-Élysées"

- Shiny, "a tawny gypsy girl sleeping blanketed by stars"

Shanty for the Arethusa, "the natives dark and nubile"

California One/Youth and Beauty Brigade, "We're lining up the light-loafer'd and the bored bench warmers"

Clementine, "After the wrecking ball bereft you of house and home" 

Grace Cathedral Hill, "All fiery Irish clip and curl"

Odalisque, "raised on praties, peanut shells and dirt" 

A Cautionary Song, "she's waiting for the sailors in the jolly boat"

I Don't Mind, "on his tawdry bride" 

Legionnaire's Lament, "with the roar of cars and the lulling of the cafe bars,"