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Foregone Lyrics — The Decemberists | Dork

Lyrics
The Decemberists
Foregone Lyrics

Lyrics

The Decemberists

Foregone

From Long Live the King2011

Written by Colin Meloy

Produced by The Decemberists, Tucker Martine

Lyrics

Foregone

Dear, arise and say it's a honey All this light that daybreak brings And the ancient bends that brung me To the bed where your sleepy sings And we had agreed on Henry Long before a flutter felt And so it will be 'til memory Makes a shadow of ourselves And the reach and the wrecks and the wrongs All would lead to believe that it's not But it's foregone It's foregone Can it be that this is given This awaking from a long dark night Of a soul so on and wizened Sleep away to set to rights And the reach and the wrecks and the wrongs All would lead to believe that it's not But it's foregone It's foregone It's foregone It's foregone And the reach and the wrecks and the wrongs All would lead to believe that it's not And the reach and the wrecks and the wrongs It's foregone It's foregone It's foregone It's foregone Carry on Oh, carry on

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About this track

"Foregone" is a song by The Decemberists from the album Long Live the King, released in 2011. The song was written by Colin Meloy. It was produced by The Decemberists, Tucker Martine.

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