Decemberists Leslie Anne Levine Lyrics

Leslie Anne Levine Lyrics

my name is leslie ann levine 

my mother birthed me down a dry revine 

my mother birthed me far too soon 

born at nine and dead at noon 



fifteen years gone now 

i still wander this parapet 

and shake my rattle bone 

fifteen years gone now 

i still cling to the petticoats 

of the girl who died with me 



on the roofs above the streets 

the only love i've knowns a chimney sweep 

lost and lodged inside a flue 

back in 1842 



fifteen years gone now 

i still wail from these catacombs 

and curse my mother's name 

fifteen years gone now 

still a wastrel mescalined 

has brought this fate on me 



my name is leslie ann levine 

i've got no one left to mourn for me 

my body lies inside its grave 

in a ditch not far away 



fifteen years gone now 

i still wander this parapet 

and shake my rattle bone 

fifteen years gone now 

i still cling to the petticoats 

of the girl who died with me