THE DECEMBERISTS LYRICS - The Queen's Rebuke / The Crossing

"The Queen's Rebuke / The Crossing"



The Queen

I'm made of bones of the branches the boughs and the bough beating light

Well my feet are the trunks, my head is the canopy

And my fingers extend to the leaves in the eves



And a bright, brighter shine

It's my shine



And he

Was a baby abandoned

Entombed in a cradle of clay

And I was a soul who took pity and stole him away

And gave him the form of a faun to inhabit



And a day, brightest day

It's my day



And you

Have removed this temptation that's troubled my innocent child

To abduct and abuse

And to render her rift and defiled

But the river is deep to the banks and the water is wild



I will fly you

To the far side