The Decemberists, Lake Song (live), Mountain Winery, August 8, 2022 (4K)

The Decemberists play their song "Lake Song" live in concert at The Mountain Winery in Saratoga, California on August 8, 2022. Lake Song appeared on the band's seventh studio album, What A Terrible World, What A Beautiful World (2015). The Decemberists are an indie rock band from Portland, Oregon consisting of Colin Meloy (lead vocals & guitar), Jenny Conlee (keyboards & accordion), Chris Funk (guitar), Nate Query (bass), and John Moen (drums). Joining them on tour was Lizzie Ellison (backing vocals).

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Lake Song lyrics:

Down by the lake we were overturning pebbles
And upending all the animals alight
And I took a drag from your cigarette and pinched it
'Tween my finger and my thumb, till it had died

And the sun burned low on the radio

Say that you will
Say you will or will you won't or you whatever
You prevaricate your whole life, don't you?
This much I can say: I would've waited till the oceans fell away
And all the sunken cities would reveal themselves to you

But you won't, will you? Because you never do
And the sun burned through sweet as honeydew

And I, seventeen and terminally fey
I wrote it down and threw it all away
And never gave a thought to what I'd paid
And you, all sibylline, reclining in your pew
You tattered me, you tethered me to you
The things you would, and the things you wouldn't do
To tell the truth I never had a clue

Now we arise to curse those young suburban villains
And their ill-begotten children from the lawn
Come to me now, and on this station wagon window
Set the ghost of your two footprints
That they might haunt me when you're gone
And when the light broke dawn, you were forever gone
But I remember you: you were full
You were full and sweet as honeydew

Written by Colin Meloy

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The Decemberists - Arise From The Bunkers live tour dates (2022):

Aug. 3 – Bonner, MT @ Kettlehouse Amphitheater
Aug. 4 – Redmond, WA @ Marymoor Park
Aug. 6 – Troutdale, OR @ McMenamins Edgefield
Aug. 8 – Saratoga, CA @ The Mountain Winery
Aug. 9 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Wiltern
Aug. 11 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Gallivan Center
Aug. 12 – Denver, CO @ The Mission Ballroom
Aug. 13 – Kansas City, MO @ Grinders KC
Aug. 15 – Minneapolis, MN @ Surly Brewing
Aug. 16 – Chicago, IL @ Chicago Theatre
Aug. 17 - Grand Rapids, MI @ Frederik Meijer Gardens
Aug. 19 – Toronto, ON @ Massey Hall
Aug. 20 – Lafayette, NY @ Beak & Skiff Apple Orchards
Aug. 21 – Boston, MA @ Roadrunner
Aug. 23 – New York, NY @ SummerStage
Aug. 24 – Vienna, VA @ Wolf Trap
Aug. 25 – Philadelphia, PA @ The Met
Aug. 27 – Nashville, TN @ Ryman Auditorium
Aug. 28 – Atlanta, GA @ The Tabernacle

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The Decemberists official bio:

For 20 years The Decemberists have been one of the most original, daring, and thrilling American rock bands. Founded in the year 2000 when singer, songwriter, and guitarist Colin Meloy moved from Montana to Portland, Oregon and met bassist Nate Query, keyboardist Jenny Conlee, and guitarist Chris Funk, The Decemberists’ distinctive brand of hyperliterate folk-rock set them apart from the start with the release of their debut EP 5 Songs in 2001. After making their full-length debut with Castaways and Cutouts in 2002, the band signed with Kill Rock Stars for the release of the acclaimed albums Her Majesty the Decemberists (2003) and Picaresque (2005). The 2004 EP The Tain–an 18-minute single-track epic–made the band’s grand creative ambitions clear.

Around this time the band’s permanent line-up fell into place with the arrival of drummer John Moen, and they made the unexpected leap to Capitol Records for their first major label album in 2006. Fans’ concerns of whether the band would alter their trademark sound quickly vanished when they delivered their most ambitious and audacious record to date in The Crane Wife, a song cycle produced by Walla and Tucker Martine that added elements of ‘70s prog, hard rock and even quasi-disco to their palette. The album was met by wide acclaim from The New York Times, Rolling Stone, SPIN, Stereogum, and was named Best New Music by Pitchfork.

Three years later, The Hazards of Love – a full-length concept album based on Meloy’s idea for a stage musical - was a Top 20 hit. In 2011, they topped themselves yet again with their first #1 album, The King Is Dead, which featured the Grammy-nominated song “Down By The Water.” After their 2015 album What A Terrible World, What A Beautiful World, which included the #1 AAA radio hit “Make You Better,” The Decemberists changed up their sound and explored new approaches to making music on their eighth studio album I’ll Be Your Girl (2018) with producer John Congleton.

Over the past 20 years The Decemberists have toured the world, performed at countless major festivals, and even founded Travelers’ Rest a festival of their own curation in Missoula, Montana. The band has appeared on The Simpsons, collaborated with Hamilton’s Lin-Manuel Miranda, and released their own crowd-funded board game Illimat.