Colin Meloy (The Decemberists) - A June Hymn, to Welcome In The Day ...

[mr_lebowski]

Beautiful lyrics ... great performance ... awesome song ...

June Hymn
Here's a hymn to welcome in the day
Heralding a summer's early sway
And all the bulbs all coming in
To begin
The thrushes bleating battle with the wrens
Disrupts my reverie again

Pegging clothing on the line
Training jasmine how to vine
Up the arbor to your door
And more
You're standing on the landing with the war
You shouldered all the night before

And once upon it
A yellow bonnet
Garland on the lawn
And you were waking
And day was breaking
A panoply of song
And summer comes to Springville Hill

A barony of ivy in the trees
Expanding out its empire by degrees
And all the branches burst a'bloom
In the boom
Heaven sent this cardinal maroon
To decorate our living room

And years from now
When this old life
Isn't ambling anymore
Will I bring myself to write?

I give my best to Springville Hill