Lake Song Lyrics - What A Terrible World, What A Beautiful World - Decemberists

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 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? 

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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 

Never gave a thought to what I paid 

And you 

All sibylline, reclining in your pew 

You tattered me, you tethered me to you 

The things you would and wouldn't do 

To tell the truth I never had a clue 

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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 

And I 

Seventeen and terminally fey 

I wrote it down and threw it all away 

And never gave a thought to what I paid 

All sibylline, reclining in your pew 

You tattered me, you tethered me to you 

The things you would and wouldn't do 

You noticed how I never had a clue 

Never had a clue 

You were full and sweet as honeydew 

You were full and sweet as honeydew