Song of the Week - Engine Driver by The Decemberists

Through the miracle of being able to make blog posts in the future, I'll able to bring you this Sone of the Week post even while my wife and I are flying back from Niagara Falls, where we were celebrating our 30th wedding anniversary. With all confidence from when I'm actually writing this (on June 13th) I'm sure we had a great time.

The Decembrists are one of my favorite bands and I've been looking for a good video by them for some time. Luckily, not only is this a good video, it's one of my favorite songs by them. It's from their 2005 album Picaresque. This performance seems to be from 2008.



I'm an engine driver
On a long run, on a long run
Would I work beside her
She's a long one, such a long one

And if you don't love me, let me go
And if you don't love me, let me go

I'm a county lineman
On the high line, on the high line
So will be my grandson
There are power lines in our bloodlines

And if you don't love me, let me go
And if you don't love me, let me go

And I am a writer
A writer of fictions
I am the heart that you call home
I've written pages upon pages
Trying to rid you from my bones
My bones, my bones

I'm a moneylender
I have fortunes upon fortunes
Take my hand for tender
I am tortured, ever tortured

And if you don't love me, let me go
And if you don't love me, let me go

And I am a writer
Writer of fictions
I am the heart that you call home
I've written pages upon pages
Trying to rid you from my bones

I am a writer
I am all that you have known
And I've written pages upon pages
Trying to rid you from my bones
My bones, my bones

(And if you don't love me, let me go)
And if you don't love me, let me go
(And if you don't love me, let me go)
And if you don't love me, let me go