The Decemberists - The Engine Driver (from Picaresque)

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@joegkushner 7 жыл бұрын

My favorite lines from the song, "And I am a writer, writer of fictions I am the heart that you call home And I've written pages upon pages Trying to rid you from my bones"

@nickrandles1102 3 жыл бұрын

Oh do I know what that feels like.

@lucystarlight8887 3 жыл бұрын

"And if you don't love me let me go" Wish it were that simple huh?

@oscarsoji6624 3 жыл бұрын

My now ex-wife was the one who showed me this band, we used to go for a drive while we were listeng to this album, I do miss her, too bad i realize how much i love her a bit too late.

@db8erfreak Ай бұрын

Never too late mate

@firejaw6459 4 күн бұрын

@@db8erfreakSometimes, it really is.

@Iridescence93 5 жыл бұрын

i like the lyric " I am a money lender.....Take my hand for tender". Very clever pun.

@rodddossantos1437 3 жыл бұрын

Tendor, dear. “Tendor”

@probably_talon1075 3 жыл бұрын

@@rodddossantos1437 "Tender" as in offered money-not the drug "tendor" which makes no sense in the song's context.

@rodddossantos1437 3 жыл бұрын

Probably_Talon My bad. You are correct. My misspelling for ever! What’s a drug “tendor” though? Never heard of it.

@generalstore7515 5 ай бұрын

@@rodddossantos1437 yes, you have it completely out of context, but that's fine too Noun. tendor m ‎(genitive tendōris); third declension. stretching, straining, tension.

@sleepymongoose6663 7 жыл бұрын

"The Engine Driver" I'm an engine driver On a long run, on a long run Would I work beside her She's a long one, such a long one And if you don't love me let me go And if you don't love me let me go I'm a country lineman On a high line, on a high line So will be my grandson There are powerlines in our bloodlines And if you don't love me let me go And if you don't love me let me go And I am a writer, writer of fictions I am the heart that you call home And I've written pages upon pages Trying to rid you from my bones My bones My bones I'm a money lender I have fortunes upon fortunes Take my hand for tender I am tortured, ever tortured And if you don't love me let me go And if you don't love me let me go And I am a writer, writer of fictions I am the heart that you call home And I've written pages upon pages Trying to rid you from my bones I am a writer, I am all that you have home Home And I've written pages upon pages Trying to rid you from my bones My bones My bones (And if you don't love me let me go) And if you don't love me let me go (And if you don't love me let me go) And if you don't love me let me go

@slf1800 7 жыл бұрын

A beautiful song - you don't have to be living it to appreciate.

@coreylipow180 11 ай бұрын

This song is brilliance. Easily one of Decemberists' best songs. Why so few views?

@jenleit9679 7 жыл бұрын

I want to exist in the tiny, sinewy tendon in Colin Meloy's heart

@foretdecouchage 2 ай бұрын

this was the first song i ever heard of theirs i was 14 and absolutely sold 🥰🥰😍😍

@FabulousKilljoy 4 жыл бұрын

I love this song.

@gregoryd40 4 жыл бұрын

Me too

@nickrandles1102 3 жыл бұрын

This song changed me

@SageLakshmi 6 ай бұрын

This song got me through such a hard time in my life.

@seanrowshandel1680 7 ай бұрын

I'm not asking, "What do you need?", but you can announce it in words.

@xevissimo 7 ай бұрын

The depth of that song has moved me to the point of tears. On a day dedicated to meditation, I managed to connect with my essence, sometimes elusive. Amidst life's complexities, we build shells that make us forget those seemingly simpler days. However, I've learned that sometimes all it takes is to breathe and focus on the present. I shared this song today with a friend because its melody not only symbolizes my adolescence but also triggers a cascade of memories in my mind and heart.

@diouranke 3 жыл бұрын

🔸There are powerlines in our bloodlines 🔸

@CaptainAwesome7400 3 жыл бұрын

So will be my grandson There are powerlines in our bloodlines. This line speaks to my family.

@Grass-seedling Жыл бұрын

This is just VIBES so good oml

@ms.aelanwyr.ilaicos 2 жыл бұрын

I was introduced to this song by a young woman who heard in it her feelings for another man. In time, I would come to hear in those same notes, perhaps underservedly, my feelings for her. We drivers of engines, our tracks are winding ones. They join and fork and join again in an inscrutable labyrinth guided by inexorable switchmen: our triumphs and tragedies, our gambles and resignations, virtues and vices, neuroses, certainties, hesitations, mistakes, miscalculations, and indeed every descision, temperment, or proclivity we ever adopt. But the engine drives ever onward, perchance to never cross those same tracks again. Unlike the inertial mass of coal and steel that is the present, the past is a fragile thing indeed, and yet so difficult to truly scour away completely. And perhaps that is for the best. There is a bittersweetness in retracing the worn and weary lines of pleasant memories long faded.

@cmjuliep Жыл бұрын

Wow....this is better than the song, actually. Beautiful.

@patcooper793 10 ай бұрын

My wizened and jaded stance tells me to be wary of overly romanticizing these sorts of songs, if you relate to the time period this is someone who needs something to cling to, without our modern conveniences and down in the dregs, which I am not

@kaleenakelly 8 ай бұрын

@@patcooper793I miss the days of romantic pining love, but still I am jaded in that I would never love for the lust alone, it would be practical. But I do know men like the speaker of the song in the modern day. These songs are my new crush songs for my 30s, they balance out the ignorance of the honey moon stage and prepare me for what is likely to happen.

@dbp20111 8 ай бұрын

You might like this vid I made for engine driver, to have written such a poetic comment figured maybe you would appreciate it, just a hunch, its probably that fourth most recent on my channel, basically just my family watches, but once in a blue moon i randomly share on Internet hope you don't mind

@flynnwashburne9358 4 ай бұрын

Slap yourself.

@matthewbalfour2298 8 жыл бұрын

So beautiful. I'm a banker (money-lender), get shivers when that bit comes up.

@Doziethegreat 6 жыл бұрын

Matthew Balfour Are you a money lender too?

@TsunamiDragonEX 10 жыл бұрын

If they don't love me, why won't they just let me go?

@donaldpromnitz4787 2 жыл бұрын

"I have four chins..."

@foretdecouchage 2 ай бұрын

got tickets to see them in july i'm GONNA CRY THE WHOLE TIME

@oldgreasychips 2 ай бұрын

there is an essence of diddles organ from legend of mana that brings potent nostalgic bliss...

@johnnyconstantino3749 3 жыл бұрын

My friend was an engine driver he let me know. .....

@eddiaz93 7 жыл бұрын

I'm listening to a song that's essentially instructions and figuring that I need to let her go. Problem is that I think I love her.

@leoweisberger5740 10 ай бұрын

Did you go for it or let her go?

@ShanonSinn 8 жыл бұрын

Resonates for sure. Been a Decemberists Easter day.

@FuzzSprinkle 2 жыл бұрын

Hemingway?

@kafkca 3 жыл бұрын

La Roue (1923), directed by Abel Gance.

@johnnygreer9105 16 күн бұрын

2024!

@jaredsmallwood7736 2 жыл бұрын

Is this about Electro from Spiderman? "Powerlines in my blood lines"

@majou666 Жыл бұрын

Jim Knopf und Lukas, der Lokomotivführer.

@Cumpooter Жыл бұрын

For me the song brings back memories of an overpowering heroin and now fentynal addiction that cost me the love of my life. She stayed around longer than most would but finally moved back to her hometown and got married to tattoo artist. I still play it sometimes when I realize that all is well and where it should by in my mothafuckin kingdom nowadays yo

@tonykartracer8032 5 жыл бұрын

One of their better songs, this one....... if not the top one next to "Oooh oooh oh oooh ooh". Ya'll know it! :P

@alexandram230 5 жыл бұрын

what are you talking about

@FabulousKilljoy 4 жыл бұрын

What

@MrViciado00 4 жыл бұрын

The mariner's revenge song?

@alfieomega 4 жыл бұрын

I'm afraid you'll have to elaborate

@adrianslim4928 3 жыл бұрын

Yankee Bayonet?

@raquelamodio97 Жыл бұрын

Good timez interesting internet robot LOL

@darsoulr 8 жыл бұрын

this and dear avery wish I hadn't of written to personal

@FabulousKilljoy 4 жыл бұрын

What were you on when you wrote all of these comments

@benaspinall252 Жыл бұрын

I am a writer of fiction

@darsoulr 8 жыл бұрын

starting in twenty ten I have horrible images of a pot with shit a coin and food remenenants my family being hurt and other bot so nice thing....sometimes free porn.....hell can't be much worse.....