The Decemberists - Burial Ground (Lyric Video)

[@peggyf8168]

and when the world needed them most… they returned

[@michaelwhite6689]

Happy sounding for a song about a final resting place. Cemeteries were places of reverence where families can picnic and celebrate. Not just a place to cry.

[@netforce0]

@@michaelwhite6689 so true

[@darylbeyers2719]

And take lunchtime naps

[@hannahb9873]

Couldn't agree more

[@doreengilmore3952]

My son passed day before Christmas. My car radio didn’t work three days. This song popped on. A channel I don’t even listen to. I miss him so much. I love you son

[@VanessaGarcia-bj7qd]

You will see your baby one day again🙏🏼💙

[@pigletti]

My daughter,, in 2013, by her own hand. This song blindsided me and broke me down.

[@MelanieTittle]

So sorry for your devastating loss. I love this song! ❤

[@robmrowka]

So sorry for your loss, may the good memories sustain you...

[@lokispeicher8103]

Same for me but it's my wife...we both have good reasons to embrace our passing with a smile ...dancing out way across the rainbow bridge that leads us home to be with the ones we loved..what a comforting thought Love and light Sorry about your Son...I felt your words brother... Pack up the stereo..meet at the burial ground

[@AutomaticShoes]

Classic song! We need a new Decemberists album, please! ❤

[@Kae6502]

Yes!

[@jamesbrown9524]

god yes we do

[@netforce0]

sounds like they working on it

[@peacemealgarden]

June 14

[@robustfawn]

june!

[@ChristopherBingham-xx8xl]

The Decemberists have been by far the best band in the world for the last 22 years, and they still are. I will see them again in May.

[@godlygamer911]

... Bit of an extreme statement but go off queen.

[@matthewdennis1739]

they're excellent. I don't know if I'd say best, but dang I'm just happy for a great new song from them.

[@ChristopherBingham-xx8xl]

@@matthewdennis1739 and that other new song is even better. It's proof that the Decemberists have finally gone back to what made me a fan of them in the first place: prog rock.

[@matthewdennis1739]

@@ChristopherBingham-xx8xl its great, I love both

[@danaclass]

AND James Mercer?! What a fantastic combination! Very Beach Boys.. Great stuff, y'all! 😁👍

[@johnfroude4507]

Heard this for the first time on Sirius XM. Had to look up the video and save it. Great song. Great melody!

[@edwardwilliams4602]

Me too! The Spectrum? Sounds like a combo of the Beach Boys and Gordon Lightfoot....and then blown away by the trumpet solo at the end.

[@multicaruana]

certainly one of my favorite songs! Trouble is I've played it so many times I'm getting all sorts of solicitations for cremations and funerals.And I'm in that age bracket. But I love the song, one of favorites ever, funeral ads not withstanding.

[@RogaineForEwoks]

And now you've said cremation and funeral in a comment, that's gonna super charge the ads!

[@Naomi-ns1lo]

Fantastic song!! I especially like the line 'somewhere out beyond these maladies in my head' :)

[@kentuckybred1]

Heard this on radio today, had to look it up. Excellent song !

[@susangreen3871]

I have heard it in the radio several times, but sporadically…I heard it again today and did the same thing! I love this song!

[@DanDiffendale]

"You have carried them so well" gets me every time.

[@joshcottrell4853]

I knooooooooow!

[@CinnamonPinch]

I love how you can also hear "melodies" for "maladies". Love the song!

[@unexeous5918]

Such a decemberists thing to do lyrically, I love it every time!

[@marcnevins9491]

It’s the best and happiest song I’ve ever heard about a cemetery. I wish I could give it a like every time I hear it.

[@j-man5353]

NEW SINGLE!?!?!? My day was bad and now it is good.

[@petergiaschi35]

Can't wait to see you in Vancouver. Bring the trumpet.

[@peacemealgarden]

it's a flugel horn

[@janeripley8541]

The perfect juxtaposition of a nice melody with dark lyrics.

[@anomalees]

forty nine comments later, thanks to James Mercer and his falsetto. I haven't been this intrigued in years since The Hazards of Love. solid. ear worm worthy too.

[@dewainkoester1026]

Nice song, the trumpet solo was great!

[@michaelcasino4380]

The burial ground is the most beautiful and peaceful place on earth.

[@stevev1107]

Fun and catchy, and as good as anything they've done, which is saying plenty. The girls coming in with "Merry go round" at the end is absolutely worth the wait.

[@reggznbakey]

“contract malaria, meet at the burial ground” 👌🏼 classic

[@rylotech907]

Saw them for the first time in St Louis last week, the wife and I had such a good time that it only compounded on my regret of not getting into them 20 years ago. An insanely talented ensemble and the song writing is nothing short of brilliant.

[@Hiccuple]

Brings me back. Reminds me why/how much I love you guys. Like a friend coming back after moving away for sometime. Great song. Looking forward to the new album.

[@H-Vox]

Instant classic.

[@pretty14kitty]

So excited to see them live in May ❤❤

[@rheliadarview]

Lucky!

[@ChristopherBingham-xx8xl]

Me too

[@cleary_hazy]

You've done it once again! 👏🏻 Can't wait to see you all in Philly!

[@mccypr]

Very retro cool! Thanks! 🎻🙂🙂🙂🙂😎😎😎😎😎

[@Dank-Hill]

“At least I think that’s what you said”: Blank headstone Lmfaooo I love your sense of humor. 💀

[@erichimes3062]

And that last lyric: “contract malaria, meet at the burial ground”

[@Dank-Hill]

@@erichimes3062 That’s actually the lyrics! 😂

[@erichimes3062]

@@Dank-Hill I like how it wasn’t included on the scrolling headstones

[@Dank-Hill]

@@erichimes3062 oh lol hahaha.

[@franklentz4727]

Good stuff

[@EnzoDBaker5309]

Bravo!!

[@simondavies658]

Very cool

[@chrishack7467]

Amazing as always!

[@Szicsooo]

Goood stuff

[@connells36]

What a Great Song!!

[@marblefoxe7449]

Need a shirt with a tombstone logo that has the lyrics "this worlds all wrong so let's go where we belong" on it.

[@ellenlandowski1659]

Yes yes yes!!!!

[@gracie565]

Great music!

[@BrothSoda]

900th veiw! Love love love ur music! Was raised on it :3

[@juliebirdgirl9059]

Love this so much!

[@angelredacted5904]

I am so excited to be seeing you guys live in Indianapolis this month.

[@zacox]

Can’t wait for the live show!

[@leornere]

Yay!

[@theMansalad]

cool! A new song!

[@ThePollaton]

Hoorah!! ❤❤❤

[@ChorusAndTheRing]

Cool lyric video! Reminds me of the Monty Python animated segments.

[@patrickcorcoran4828]

I've been hearing this on the radio on my commute but the station's info scroll has been stuck on a Bob Marley song for 6 weeks so I couldn't figure out what it was. I finally remembered enough lyrics to google it and I can't believe I didn't recognize that it was The Decemberists. Its not like there is any other band that sounds anything like them.

[@ziminkirill4230]

Отлично!

[@SasquatchLovesMe]

screams beach boys, and I do love it. great lyrics, great summer song.

[@TheChitown5]

More like mid 60's Byrds folk rock ...song for early baby boomers on their last leg.

[@SasquatchLovesMe]

@@TheChitown5 I can't help it that the younger kids still love mostly old guys who suck, like RHCP.

[@JaymeforJesus]

This song is quite catchy.

[@Lockdheart]

I want to know who "Len" is.

[@toomanymoose]

I came to the comments to seek that answer

[@etaknar]

He’s the Capricorn

[@AndrewWatson401]

Sounds like Sloop John B, not a bad thing.

[@mzaite]

Yea heavy Beach Boys/Brian Wilson vibe.

[@robertlynn7332]

I'm glad others heard that influence.

[@bettertimeschi]

First heard it on the radio and swore it was from a different era

[@GigabyteBill]

I just discovered this song yesterday. A very good song, and all day I was thinking it sounded like something else, but couldn't figure it out. You've nailed it! It reminded me of Sloop John B!

[@oddblood-]

Damn it sure does I knew something sounded familiar bout this song and its Sloop John B.

[@Coalmine23]

I was in the bathroom of a fast food joint when I first heard this song and gave me horror movie vibes. Like I was gunna walk out to Leatherface in the dining room 😂

[@GuppyCzar]

Brb contracting malaria.

[@ThatCoolKidYouKnow]

With this song, I think of Beachboys meets the Shins. Decemberists seem to have a huge range though... If you see this listen to 'When the War Came'.

[@mathair4]

Yasss!

[@lokispeicher8103]

Ok ..be right back

[@grantwsullivan9852]

I Love this song! But my Hearing isn't what it should be, so when I've been listening to this sone, I thought it was "meet at the merry-go-round". LOL I hear this song often on WXRV "The River", 92.5 FM in Haverhill, MA. I just saw your performance Tonite on "Jimmy Kimmel Live". ❤

[@Metfansince12]

Wish I could see them in Milwaukee… oh well. Would love to see them in Green Bay sometime.

[@brichess8227]

oooh a new song

[@FromBeyond99]

Who is Len? (And he steal my sunshine?)

[@riley.p.p]

🤝

[@thomasfioriglio]

Yay!!! I needed this. Thank you! Looking forward to hearing the rest of the new music. PS. What would have been super funny is to have the names of all the dead characters from your songs on the headstones in the background. 🪦💀

[@duckdog68]

There is *one* real gravestone in there! 😜

[@MadailinBurnhope]

it's very Beach Boys, nice

[@EBThisThat]

When the beach won’t do, goths head for the cemetery 😆

[@billhammer9241]

The Decembrists make dying sound so good.

[@MortenMaehre]

Great song, but am I the only one who started singing "Sloop John B"?

[@bryanlappert5482]

I’m feeling nostalgic for The Shins- One by One All Day.

[@pigletti]

To throw in “contract malarial” for the hell of it

[@brodok4252]

I really want to do this one on karaoke night.

[@matthewthorson1441]

This world's all wrong ... Let's go where we belong

[@salemite]

The DeceBEATLESemberists. Song rules though.

[@erichimes3062]

Byrds

[@michaelcasino4380]

I will meet any one who wants to meet a the burial ground.

[@riley.p.p]

reminds me of a beatles / fools garden vibe

[@Lensynth]

❤

[@thishouseofglass]

What is "the aerial"? Can someone help me

[@GigabyteBill]

There are probably other meanings, but I think they're using an older term for a broadcast antenna, usually a larger one held in place by guy wires.

[@thishouseofglass]

@@GigabyteBill thanks very much 🙏

[@EA-137]

Satellites

[@lokispeicher8103]

Yeah they used to poke out of the top of every roof in suburbia

[@BlueMilkDrinker]

Fir- Se- Thir- . . . . Seventh 😢

[@fizzygillespie]

This reminds me a little of "Bird on a Wire" by Leonard Cohen. "And I swear/by this song/by all that I have done wrong..."

[@bettertimeschi]

This sounds like it comes it from a different era

[@zacox]

Can someone make a mashup of this and Hazy Shade of Winter. I know it’s just the “ground” rhyme making the connection in my head but I think it could work.

[@philippedemarle7192]

the return of Brian Wilson

[@elperfildelhorizonte]

😍😍

[@The_snail_king]

I just saw them at zoo tune they sung this song bro I am addicted again

[@kundachitangala5173]

💕💕💞

[@nemnyoom]

don't enthuse about your name being in a song don't enthuse about your name being in a song don't enthuse about your name being in a song GRAVEYARDS ARE REALLY COOL AND FUN

[@jam_bai]

Sloop John B. vibes

[@joeldheath]

And Cotton Jenny by Gordon Lightfoot

[@erichimes3062]

and Smiths’ Cemetery Gates

[@jeecee3948]

@@erichimes3062 I was just gonna say.... Smiths vibes.

[@FOXGEAR92]

I NEED a new Decemberists album Everything is so awful some Meloy whimsy would do my soul some good

[@jayadam5710]

NEW ALBUM...SOON? we need it. Everything is terrible!

[@peacemealgarden]

June 14

[@ChristopherBingham-xx8xl]

Most of it is already available. They've been playing the songs live and people have been recording the shows and posting them on youtube

[@duckdog68]

So what’s the connection to Thomas Rhodes Armitage I wonder? 🤔😁 (The one headstone that *is* real)

[@huizilopoxtli9701]

I just want a tomb with a view.

[@JAKSICPredrag]

Дивна песма.

[@lenalennon8746]

🙏❤❤🀄🎶🎶❤❤🙏🌬💋💋🎶🎶🎶🀄🀄🀄

[@izzytoons]

This video is visually beautiful but still sucks. And the music is wonderful, too. But it skips about a quarter of the lyrics. What the hell is this?I stopped listening at :55. I'd already heard it on the other official video and this was just an annoying tease. I hope some third party comes up with a full set of lyrics, even if it's all text.

[@zacox]

Huh? The only skipped lyric is 2:06. And I am pretty sure that is an artistic choice since the line is kind of an aside. Unless you count them skipping oh’s and the backing vocals (which also don’t come in until after the first 55 sec).

[@lesferch]

​@@zacox And the last line at 3:49.

[@SWabakken]

I wonder if there are some secretive creative reasons for the two blank tombstones, or if it was just a sloppy screw-up.

[@izzytoons]

@@lesferch blank tombstoned lyrics :06 - :13, the first 1.5 lines of the song. Again :46-:55. Again 1:42-147. 2:05-2:11. 3:50-3:50. These are all times when the singer is singing and there are no corresponding lyrics in fron of you. Don't get me wrong. I love the Decemberists and this song. I've also watched the live version. I am looking forward to the release in June. I have everything they've already released. I have tickets to see them this summer... I just have a thing for reading lyrics because I don't always hear well...

[@izzytoons]

@@SWabakken Actually there were five of them. Creative license, I guess...

[@JaymeforJesus]

This song is quite catchy.