The Bachelor and the Bride

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Album Her Majesty the Decemberists

ALBUM

The Decemberists

2003

The Bachelor and the Bride by The Decemberists

Release Date

Tue Sep 09 2003

Performed by

The Decemberists

Produced by

The Decemberists & Larry Crane & Adam Selzer

Writed by

Colin Meloy

About

“The Bachelor and the Bride” takes its title from a work of art entitled “La mariée mise à nu par ses célibataires, même (Le Grand Verre)” (“The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (The Large Glass)”) by Marcel Duchamp. It is an enormous freestanding work composed of two panes of glass betwee...

The Bachelor and the Bride Lyrics

[Verse 1]
There's a wrinkle in the water
Where we laid our first daughter
And I think the wind blows so sweetly there
Over there

[Verse 2]
And the windows and the cinders
And the willows in the timbers
The infernal rattling of the rain
Still remains

[Chorus]
"But I" said the bachelor to the bride
"Am not waiting for tonight
No, I will box your ears
And leave you here stripped bare."

[Verse 3]
Hear the corncrakes and the deer hooves
And the sleet rain on the slate roof
A medallion locked inside her hands
In her hands

[Verse 4]
And his fingers are they telling
Of the barren of her belly
And his callouses cure her furrowed brow
Even now

[Chorus]
"But I," said the bachelor to the bride
"Am not waiting for tonight
No, I will box your ears
And leave you here stripped bare."

[Chorus]
"But I," said the bachelor to the bride
"Am not waiting for tonight
No, I will box your ears
And take your tears and leave you, leave you here
Stripped bare."

The Bachelor and the Bride Q&A

Who wrote The Bachelor and the Bride's ?

The Bachelor and the Bride was written by Colin Meloy.

Who produced The Bachelor and the Bride's ?

The Bachelor and the Bride was produced by The Decemberists & Larry Crane & Adam Selzer.