![Days Of Elaine (Long) - The Decemberists](https://cdn.muztext.com/i/3284751200713925347.jpg)
Date of issue: 31.12.2007
Record label: Capitol
Song language: English
Days Of Elaine (Long) |
Those were the days of Elaine |
That was the phrase that she used to describe to her son |
Of the fun she had had |
Long before he went away |
Long before days of the dole and the draze and the lull |
But the call never came |
To say, oh oh oh |
Loitering lavender park |
Laying about in the day and the dark of a room |
While the noon passes by |
Always on verge of collapse |
Mother would quit and then suffer a lapse from the drink |
You would think she was dead |
What to say, oh oh oh |
She say, oh oh oh oh |
And the time that it takes, will it go so slow? |
She laid on the brakes and she dulled the glow |
Now, doesn’t it go so slow? |
When you build it up to tear it down |
You’re tearing it down |
You tear it down |
Those were the days |
Those were the days of Elaine |
The days of Elaine |
The days of Elaine |
A lover like Alain Delon |
She followed him blind from saloon to salon |
From the hills to the pills he would take |
Father had died in the mines |
Brother had shown no remorse for his crimes |
When they strung him up he got all hung up on the scaffolding |
But he say, oh oh oh |
He say, oh oh oh oh |
And the time that it takes, well, it goes so slow |
She laid on the brakes and she dulled the glow |
Now, doesn’t it go so slow? |
When you build it up just to tear it down |
You’re tearing it down |
You tear it down |
Those were the days |
Those were the days of Elaine |
The days of Elaine |
The days of Elaine |
Song tags: #Days Of Elaine
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