The Decemberists - The Crane Wife 1 & 2 lyrics

It was a cold night and the snow lay round
I pulled my coat tight
Against the falling down and the sun was all
And the sun was all down and the sun was all
And the sun was all down

I am a poor man i haven't wealth nor fame
I have my two hands and a house to my name
And the winter's so and the winter's so long
And the winter's so and the winter's so long

And all the stars were crashing 'round
As I laid eyes on what I'd found

It was a white crane it was a helpless thing
Upon a red stain with an arrow in it's wing
And it called and cried
And it called and cried so
And it called and cried
And it called and cried so
And all the stars were crashing 'round
As I laid eyes on what I'd found
My crane wife, my crane wife
My crane wife, my crane wife

And now I helped her
And now I dressed her wounds
And how I held her beneath the rising moon
And she stood to fly
And she stood to fly away
And she stood to fly she stood to fly away

And all the stars were crashing 'round
As I laid eyes on what I'd found
My crane wife, my crane wife
My crane wife, my crane wife

My crane wife arrived at my
Door in the moonlight
All star bright and tongue-tied I took her in
We were married and bells rang
Sweet for our wedding
And our bedding was ready when we fell in
Sound the keening bell
And see it's painted red soft as fontanelle
The feathers and the thread
And all I ever meant to do was to keep you
My crane wife my crane wife
My crane wife

We were poorly, our fortunes fading hourly
And how she vowed me, she could bring it back
But, I was greedy
I was vain and I forced her to weaving
On cold loom, in a closed room
With down wove

Sound the keening bell
And see it's painted red soft as fontanelle
The feathers and the thread
And all I ever meant to do was to keep you
My crane wife my crane wife
My crane wife

There's a bend in the wind and
It rakes at my heart
There is blood in the thread and
It rakes at my heart it rakes at my heart
My crane wife