The Black Maria letra

There in my memory
Just on the periphery
Loose-knit like gauze on the centerline
The broke-down cobblestone drive, the Black Maria

For when it comes for you
Nothing to be done for you
Write down your name on the dotted line
Shut up your mouth, son, here's the Black Maria

The Black Maria
Comes for us all
Can't you hear their boots in the hall?
Answer your name when they call
The Black Maria
The Black Maria

Where are the neighbors?
The bootblacking laborers?
The windows are dark and the shutters drawn
The only lone souls who roam are all pariahs

Turn out your lantern light
Set your affairs to right
Pull out the prayers that you mumble on
For everyone is an enemy, come the Black Maria
The Black Maria

The Black Maria
Comes for us all
Can't you hear their boots in the hall?
Answer your name when they call
The Black Maria
The Black Maria

There in my memory
Just on the periphery
Loose-knit like gauze on the centerline
The broke-down cobblestone drive, the Black Maria
The Black Maria

The Decemberists - Letras

• 12/17/12
• 16 By 32
• A Beginning Song
• A Bower Scene
• A Cautionary Song
• All Arise!
• All I Want Is You
• America Made Me
• Angel, Won't You Call Me?
• Annan Water
• Anti-Summersong
• Apology Song
• As I Rise
• Ben Franklin's Song
• Better Not Wake The Baby
• Billy Liar
• Born to the Morning
• Bridges And Balloons
• Burial Ground (feat. James Mercer)
• Calamity Song
• California One
• California One / Youth And Beauty Brigade
• Carolina Low
• Cavalry Captain
• Clementine
• Cocoon
• Constantinople
• Cullin of the Fold
• Dear Avery
• Don't Carry It All
• Don't Go To the Woods
• Down By The Water
• Easy Come, Easy Go
• Eli, The Barrowboy
• Everything I Try To Do, Nothing Seems To Turn Out Right
• Foregone
• From My Own True Love (lost At Sea)
• Grace Cathedral Hill
• Here I Dreamt I Was An Architect
• Human Behavior
• I
• I Don't Mind
• I Was Meant For The Stage
• II
• III
• Isn't It A Lovely Night?
• IV
• January Hymn
• Joan in the Garden
• Julianne
• July, July!
• June Hymn
• Lake Song
• Leslie Anne Levine
• Like A Lion
• Long White Veil
• Los Angeles, I'm Yours
• Make You Better
• Margaret In Captivity
• Mistral
• My Mother Was a Chinese Trapeze Artist
• Never Satisfied
• O Valencia
• O Valencia!
• Oceanside
• Ocenside
• Odalisque
• Of Angels And Angles
• Oh No!
• On The Bus Mall
• Once In My Life
• One Engine
• Philomena
• Please Daddy (Don't Get Drunk This Christmas)
• Record Year
• Red Right Ankle
• Rise To Me
• Riverswim
• Row Jimmy
• Rox In The Box
• Rusalka, Rusalka / Wild Rushes
• Severed
• Shankill Butchers
• Shanty For The Arethusa
• Shiny
• Sixteen Military Wives
• Sleepless
• Song For The Myla Goldberg
• Sons & Daughters
• Sucker's Prayer
• Summersong
• Sunshine
• Tell Me What's on Your Mind
• The Abduction Of Margaret
• The Apology Song
• The Bachelor And The Bride
• The Bagman's Gambit
• The Bandit Queen
• The Black Maria
• The Chimbley Sweep
• The Crane Wife 1 and 2
• The Crane Wife 3
• The Engine Driver
• The Gymnast, High Above The Ground
• The Hazards Of Love (Revenge!)
• The Hazards Of Love 1 (The Prettiest Whistles Won't Wrestle The Thistles Undone)
• The Hazards Of Love 2 (Wager All)
• The Hazards Of Love 4 (The Drowned)
• The Infanta
• The Island
• The Island: Come and See, The Landlord's Daughter, You'll Not Feel the Drow
• The Kingdom Of Spain
• The Landlord's Daughter
• The Legionnaire's Lament
• The Mariner's Revenge Song
• The Perfect Crime 2
• The Queen's Rebuke / The Crossing
• The Rake's Song
• The Reapers
• The Singer Addresses His Audience
• The Soldiering Life
• The Sporting Life
• The Tain (Parts I, II, III, IV, V)
• The Wanting Comes in Waves / Repaid
• The Wrong Year
• This Is Why We Fight
• Till The Water's All Long Gone
• Traveling On
• V
• Valerie Plame
• VI
• We Both Go Down Together
• When the War Came
• Why Would I Now?
• William Fitzwilliam
• Won't Want For Love (Margaret In The Taiga)
• Wonder
• Yankee Bayonet (I Will Be Home Then)
• Youth and Beauty Brigade