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About This Track
A tale of young marriage, a sudden discontent spurred on by the joint deaths of a mother and newborn, leading to delightfully angry infanticide.
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futchadoc wrote:
ALRIGHT [2] I pretty much love this song. I need to listen to more from this album.
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malorkus22 wrote:
This song live, with SO MANY drums, is an awesome experience. [2] ALRIGHT
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Thommy05 wrote:
Großartiger Song
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Churumbela wrote:
This song live, with SO MANY drums, is an awesome experience. I hope I get to see them again sometime soon!
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Keilsonky wrote:
Revenge is sweet
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bmc152006 wrote:
fucked up song, but its amazing.
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prominence_la wrote:
My demented self loves this song...love the heavy drumming!
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VellyBoo wrote:
Great great great!!
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bionicbigfoots wrote:
All right, all right, all right!
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jillian8 wrote:
Love the riff!
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sdkyle wrote:
Good call, Nocturana...this got me thinking about Country Death Song as well. Great twisted track.
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cheesetrolley wrote:
I heard this countless times on the radio before I actually paid attention to the lyrics and realized this was about infanticide. Kind of a shocker when it finally dawned on me. Awesome song.
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BewbsMcGee wrote:
listening to Decemberists radio on Last.FM - It only took 9 terrible songs to get to this gem. sigh. At least this is ONE good song in all of LastFM's "offerings."
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B4D4SS wrote:
I can't help but wonder what it says about my personality that this is hands down my favorite song from Hazards of Love...
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MelissaTheHero wrote:
This song is awesome live. The whole album was awesome live. The Queens Rebuke is an awesome song too. I love this song.
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parakeet431 wrote:
This is so overwhelming live. It's perfect.
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nocturana wrote:
Up there with Country Death Song (Violent Femmes) as far as filicide/infanticide goes, love it.
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Gerard1992 wrote:
IT's a good song, but the lyrics are kinda harsh,, xD
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RickyWirt wrote:
This song come on my play list a lot. And even now...I love it the same.
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DJ_Werd wrote:
I can't get enough of this one...
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