Uploaded January 2012 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
So here's the culmination of this past weekend. I've been wanting to do this cover ever since Los Campesinos! released their recent album "Hello Sadness". This is, by far, my favorite song off the album. The melody, harmony, and lyrics are simply amazing, in my opinion.
I've included the lyrics below so anyone interested in following along can; the piano in the upper right is playing the melody. I've also linked the actual song for those are interested in hearing the original.
Album version: youtube.com/watch?v=o79CTzvWFjQ
Lyrics:
Meet me at,
St. Nicholas,
Among the oaks,
Behind the church.
That sway like pig-tailed girls,
As summer wind whistles,
Around your bare-skin knees,
And the forsythia leaves.
In the shade,
Lay with me,
Tickled by,
The feather reed.
That's where the trees grow old,
Under the ivy's hold,
As you in my two arms,
Equally safe from harm.
And in a hazy day dream,
Our bodies married the stream,
And we grow down into pebbles and silt.
The water ran from the fields,
Until the oceans we filled,
And found the sea-bed the comfiest quilt.
There was more life in the weeds than in the few hundred seats ,
In rows from transept to chancel to nave.
And when their anger had paused, I turned and answered their calls
With your just audience, I'm the applause.
We take on the burden of all these sad-eyed children,
With lilies bunched in our hands.
We fake our concern and speak softly as the surgeon,
Tells wife to cancel her plans.
Take a body to water, take a body to tundra,
Just take me with you as well.
Please take a body to water, take a body to tundra,
Just take me with you as well.
* Disclaimer Notice: By performing and uploading this video I do NOT intend on purposefully infringing on any copyright laws. All credit goes to the original respective creator of the song or composition.
So here's the culmination of this past weekend. I've been wanting to do this cover ever since Los Campesinos! released their recent album "Hello Sadness". This is, by far, my favorite song off the album. The melody, harmony, and lyrics are simply amazing, in my opinion.
I've included the lyrics below so anyone interested in following along can; the piano in the upper right is playing the melody. I've also linked the actual song for those are interested in hearing the original.
Album version: youtube.com/watch?v=o79CTzvWFjQ
Lyrics:
Meet me at,
St. Nicholas,
Among the oaks,
Behind the church.
That sway like pig-tailed girls,
As summer wind whistles,
Around your bare-skin knees,
And the forsythia leaves.
In the shade,
Lay with me,
Tickled by,
The feather reed.
That's where the trees grow old,
Under the ivy's hold,
As you in my two arms,
Equally safe from harm.
And in a hazy day dream,
Our bodies married the stream,
And we grow down into pebbles and silt.
The water ran from the fields,
Until the oceans we filled,
And found the sea-bed the comfiest quilt.
There was more life in the weeds than in the few hundred seats ,
In rows from transept to chancel to nave.
And when their anger had paused, I turned and answered their calls
With your just audience, I'm the applause.
We take on the burden of all these sad-eyed children,
With lilies bunched in our hands.
We fake our concern and speak softly as the surgeon,
Tells wife to cancel her plans.
Take a body to water, take a body to tundra,
Just take me with you as well.
Please take a body to water, take a body to tundra,
Just take me with you as well.
* Disclaimer Notice: By performing and uploading this video I do NOT intend on purposefully infringing on any copyright laws. All credit goes to the original respective creator of the song or composition.
