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The Decemberists – The Wanting Comes in Waves/Repaid (2009) | Track profile | Dork

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The Decemberists

The Wanting Comes in Waves/Repaid

Release date: 24th March 2009

From The Hazards of Love

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"The Wanting Comes in Waves/Repaid" is a track by The Decemberists, from the album The Hazards of Love, released 24th March 2009. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 1 article about The Decemberists.

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Lyrics

The Wanting Comes in Waves/Repaid

[Verse 1: Colin Meloy]

Mother, I can hear your footfall now

Soft disturbance in the dead fall, how

It precedes you like a black smoke pall

Still the wanting comes in waves

[Verse 2: Colin Meloy]

And you delivered me from danger then

Tore 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

[Chorus 1: Colin Meloy]

And the wanting comes in waves

And the wanting comes in waves

And I want this night

And I want this night

[Verse 3: Shara Worden]

How I made you

I wrought you, I pulled you

From war I labored you

From cancer I cradled you

[Chorus 2: Shara Worden]

And now, this is how I am repaid?

This is how I am repaid?

[Verse 4: Shara Worden]

Remember when I found you?

The miseries that hounded you?

And I gave you motion

Anointed with lotions

[Chorus 2]

And now, this is how I am repaid?

This is how I am repaid?

[Verse 5: Colin Meloy]

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

[Chorus 3: Colin Meloy]

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, oh

[Verse 6: Shara Worden]

And if I grant you

This favor to hand you

Your life for the evening

I will retake by morning

[Chorus 4]

And so consider it your debt repaid

Consider it your debt repaid, repaid, repaid

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Track details

From The Hazards of Love

2009

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Album

The Hazards of Love

The Decemberists

Release year

2009

—A Bower Scene
—An Interlude
—Margaret in Captivity
—Prelude
—The Abduction of Margaret
—The Hazards of Love 1 (The Prettiest Whistles Won’t Wrestle the Thistles Undone)
—The Queen's Rebuke/The Crossing
—The Wanting Comes in Waves (Reprise)
—The Queen's Approach
—Annan Water
—The Hazards of Love 4 (The Drowned)
—The Wanting Comes in Waves/Repaid
—The Hazards of Love 3 (Revenge!)
—Won't Want for Love (Margaret in the Taiga)
—The Hazards of Love 2 (Wager All)
—Isn’t It a Lovely Night?

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Production & Engineering

Writer: Colin Meloy
Producer: The Decemberists, Tucker Martine
Drums: John Moen
Vocals: Colin Meloy, Shara Nova
Acoustic Guitar: Colin Meloy
Double Bass: Nate Query
Electric Bass: Nate Query
Electric Guitar: Chris Funk, Colin Meloy
Hammond B-3 Organ: Jenny Conlee
Harpsichord: Jenny Conlee
Percussion: John Moen
Piano: Jenny Conlee
Synthesizer: Chris Funk