Video Yankee Bayonet I Will Be Home Then de The Decemberists 2025 Pop Lyrics

The Decemberists - Yankee Bayonet I Will Be Home Then Lyrics

''Soldier'': Heart-carved tree trunk, Yankee bayonet
A sweetheart left behind
''Girl'': Far from the hills of the sea-swelled Carolinas
That's where my true love lies
''Soldier'': Look for me when the sun-bright swallow
Sings upon the birch bough high
''Girl'': But you are in the ground with the wolves and the weevils
All a'chew upon your bones so dry
''Both'': But when the sun breaks
To no more bullets in Battle Creek
Then will you make a grave
For I will be home then
I will be home then
I will be home then
I will be home then
Then
''Girl'': When I was a girl how the hills of Oconee
Made a seam to hem me in
''Soldier'': There at the fair, when our eyes caught careless
Got my heart right pierced by a pin
''Soldier'': But oh, did you see all the dead of Manassas
All the bellies and the bones and the bile?
''Girl'': No I lingered here with the blankets barren
And my own belly big with child
''Both'': But when the sun breaks
To no more bullets in Battle Creek
Then will you make a grave
For I will be home then
I will be home then
I will be home then
I will be home then
''Soldier'': Stems and bones and stone walls too
''Both'': Keep me from you
''Soldier'': This skein of skin is all too few
''Both'': To keep me from you
''Both'': But oh my love, though our bodies may be parted
Though our skin may not touch skin
Look for me with the sun-bright sparrow
I will come on the breath of the wind