Rusalka, Rusalka / Wild Rushes Lyrics - Decemberists

Rusalka, Rusalka your arms out of water 

Your hair like an alien bloom 

Dark-eyed Rusalka, your brow tressed in flowers 

Pale in a liminal moon 

And all that you are is a star on the water 

When first I went swimming, I heeded no warning 

And dared breach your rippling pool 

As I lulled and lingered, the ring slipped my finger 

And drifted down the deepening cool 

And all that I want is to fall in your shallows 

And now we are wed, the water our bed 

And bank to bank property lake 

And you are my wild-eyed rusalka, my river bride 

Drag me down, take me away 

And here we will lie, you and I, 'neath the cold, dark sky 

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I, oh I 

I, oh I, oh I 

Beware the wild rushes, my mother told me 

That grow on the bank side along the salt sea 

But I being young, I heeded her none 

So to the wild rushes the wind carried me 

The summer was here and the sun it was high 

And to the wild rushes I came by and by 

And there took my seat and dipped in my feet 

And through the wild rushes, a voice sweetly cried, ah 

Come down, my little darling, come closer to me 

The water is warm, it is salty and free 

I long for your touch, but I won't ask too much 

And I, being foolish, walked in to my knees 

Come down, little darling, and lay at my breast 

Oh, come a little closer and I'll do the rest 

I waited so long for a lover to come 

And I, being foolish, walked in to my chest, ah, ah 

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Come down, my little darling, oh farther come in 

For deeper the water, the sweeter the sin 

My lily lies here, if you'd only draw near 

And I, being foolish, went in to my chin 

Oh come, my little darling, do you feel my cool breath? 

Do you feel my arms around you so warm and so wet? 

Swept from my feet, she pulled me beneath 

And in the wild rushes, I went to my death