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Music video by The Decemberists performing Traveling On (Audio). © 2018 Capitol Records, LLC
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Lyrics:
Don't want pretty poses
Don't want rows of roses
All I want is
All I want is
Don't want summer Mondays
Don't want stunning wordplay
All I want is
All I want is you
All I want is
All I want is you
All the united nations
Couldn't feed my sensations
Half as well as how you do
When all I want is you
Don't want run-on phrases
Your dull and moneyed phases
Drinks and downers
With out of towners
Drag me to your altar
When my footing falters
All I want is
All I want is you
All I want is
All I want is you
All the wives of Ohio
Couldn't move me a mile
Half as much as how you do
When all I want is you
All I want is you
All I want is you
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Lyrics:
In a book I found
Joan in the garden
I will write this down
I will lay her heart in mine
For a time
Write a line
Erase a line
In the dawning light
As she left her body
Gifted second sight
Did she lay her dowry by
Lay it by
Write a line
Erase a line
And if you listen closely
You can hear them singing ho, oh, oh, oh
And if you listen closely
You can hear them singing ho, oh, oh, oh
Hosanna
Make her ten miles tall
Make her arms cleave mountains
Let her temptors fall
Make her tears weep fountains by
Now to try:
Write a line
Erase a line
Just another tinsel ornament
Another troubled sky
We are folded in the firmament
Catch us as we fly
I don't remember what I ought to be
I only know what's right
I'm suspended from the orrery
Bursting into light
And If you listen closely
You can hear them singing:
Hosanna, hosanna
And if you listen closely
You can hear them singing:
Hosanna, hosanna yeah!
Over stone and grapevine
Over the souls on the breadline
There's a reckoning at hand
Our hand
See them flayed at the flagpole
Catch it all on your console
We have come at your command
We stand
We stand
Blessed babe on display
Break her skull on the parquet
Wayward mariner awake!
We pray
She is daughter and son
The imperium undone
All the autocrats are laid
To waste
To waste
Oh holy whore androgyne
Come and sunder the stop signs
Break it all so we can build again
Bring on duke or dauphin
Blood will flow like a fountain
As it ever was so it will be again
As it ever was so it will be again
Hosanna, hosanna, hosanna yeah!
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We were searching for a video idea for “Once In My Life” that would somehow capture the spirit of the song. In my mind, the song is a meditation, a plea to the cosmos that I imagine everyone, at some point or another, has made. We asked our old friend and collaborator Autumn de Wilde to pitch an idea and she came to us with a simple but powerful story: a depiction of her brother Jacob, a man who has lived with physical and intellectual differences his entire life, dancing in the streets of Los Angeles. The song, in this light, becomes more than just a “celebration of sadness,” (which I have sometimes called it) but suddenly a longing holler to the universe against one’s perceived otherness.
This idea is particularly close to me as I’ve witnessed how the world sees my son Hank, who is autistic. When I’m out in public with Hank, I’m acutely aware of the world’s attachment to social and behavioral norms; in these situations, Hank’s otherness can suddenly be put in stark relief. Through the lens of Jacob’s joyful and defiant movement in Autumn’s video, we see a man shrugging off the constraints of an unaccommodating and judgmental world and truly reveling in his body and mind.
Statement from Autumn de Wilde:
My brother Jacob is 7’2”.
His feet are size 22.
He has Auditory Processing Disorder.
He likes to dress up as Chewbacca.
He is not a basketball player.
This video is my love letter to him.
My mother said to me recently when we were talking about the way the people tend to react to Jacob, someone who looks and sounds extraordinarily different from their opinion of what normal is: “When we see someone new or different, we have to stop thinking about ourselves for a moment in order to really experience them. As humans, we tend to want to put our fingerprints all over other people.”
The Decemberists’ song “Once In My Life” is the song I needed when I was young.... when I felt stared at, mocked or unseen for my heart and mind. Jacob also had an immediate emotional reaction to the song when I played it for him the first time. I had been wanting to explore a creative collaboration with my brother for a while, and this was the perfect song.
I have a very strong connection to Hank Meloy, Colin Meloy and Carson Ellis' son, who is autistic. He has very much inspired my mind and imagination as an artist and a thinker. Although Jacob and Hank's bodies and diagnosis are very different, Jacob, Hank and all of us who look different, sound different, or think different have a connection in our experience of otherness. There are many of us who feel sometimes like we live in a sort of dollhouse for the wrong doll but our perspective can shift dramatically when we realize, in fact, that our difference has simply redefined the space we are in. My brother is in his 40's and his long journey to achieve the comfort and understanding in how he moves, communicates and connects to others is inspiring to me. Self-love and acceptance are the real superpowers waiting for all of us.
Everyone featured in the video and working on the crew is a friend who gave 100% to this project. I wanted Jacob to be surrounded by friends who were committed to helping him tell this story, but also create a safe space for Jacob, which changed our pace and usual process for filmmaking. It was thrilling as a director and a sister to challenge Jacob and myself. I am honored to have put the spotlight on him, watched my brother flourish as an artistic human onscreen and show us how gorgeous different is.
Directed by Autumn de Wilde (http://autumndewilde.com)
Music video by The Decemberists performing Once In My Life. © 2018 Capitol Records, LLC
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Music video by The Decemberists performing Once In My Life. (C) 2018 Capitol Records, LLC
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Directed by Morgan Gruer and Produced by Kyle Cogan
Lyrics:
I alight like a whisper
I alight with the lights out
And it won’t take me long just to find you
And it won’t take me long just to find you
I’m allied to the winter
But don’t you get clever
Don’t you get clever
I’m allied to the landslide
Gonna leave you all severed
Gonna leave you all severed
I alone am the answer
I alone will make wrongs right
But in order to root out the cancer
It’s got to kept from the sunlight
I was born to a jackal
I was born in a whiteout
Gonna smother you all till I choke you
Gonna smother you all till you kick out
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Music video by The Decemberists performing Severed. (C) 2018 Capitol Records, LLC
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Music video by The Decemberists performing Jesus Christ. (C) 2017 UMG Recordings, Inc.
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Lyrics:I am the cavalry captain I am the remedy to your heart
I am the carbon collected
I am the printed upon your stars
And when you shine, shine your eyes
Looking lost, looking bright
Wheel away on the light brigade
And if only for a second
(Only for a second)
And if only for a time
(Only for a time)
And if only for a second
(Only for a second)
And if only for a time
We'll be alive
We'll be alive, oh oh
I am the cavalry captain
I am the remedy to your heart
I am the carbon collected
I am the printed upon your stars, oh oh
There is a world, there is a time
Looking calm, looking kind
Wheel away at the break of day
And if only for a second
(Only for a second)
And if only for a time
(Only for a time)
And if only for a second
(Only for a second)
And if only for a time
We'll be alive
We'll be alive, oh oh, oh oh
I am the cavalry captain
I am the remedy to your heart
I am the carbon collected
I am the printed upon your stars, oh oh, oh oh
I am the cavalry captain
I am the remedy to your heart
I am the carbon collected
I am the printed upon your stars
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Official video for “Cavalry Captain” directed by Daniel Kaufman and produced by Nick Becker
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“A Beginning Song” lyric video directed by Adam Goodall & Jason Roark and produced by Targa Sahyoun
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“The Wrong Year” lyric video directed & produced by Anthem Films
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Music video by The Decemberists performing Lake Song. (C) 2014 Capitol Records, LLC
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“Make You Better” official video directed by Bill Fishman and produced by Brett Kerr
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Music video by The Decemberists performing Make You Better. (C) 2014 Capitol Records, LLC
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“Make You Better (Visualizer)” official video directed and produced by Anthem Films
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Music video by The Decemberists performing Make You Better. (C) 2014 Capitol Records, LLC
Music video by The Decemberists performing Calamity Song. (P) (C) 2011 Capitol Records, LLC. All rights reserved. Unauthorized reproduction is a violation of applicable laws. Manufactured by Capitol Records, LLC, 1750 North Vine Street, Hollywood, CA 90028.
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