Who Sang The Wanting Comes in Waves / Repaid? The Decemberists

The Decemberists The Hazards of Love cover art
Credits
release date: 2009-3-17
genres: Rock Folk, World, & Country
styles: Folk Rock/Acoustic/Prog Rock
length: 6:27
producer: Tucker Martine and The Decemberists
mixer: Tucker Martine
recording engineer: Tucker Martine
assistant recording engineer: Rich Hipp
strings arranger: Nate Query and Jenny Conlee
Hammond organ: Jenny Conlee
synthesizer: Chris Funk
acoustic guitar: Colin Meloy
double bass: Nate Query
drums (drum set): John Moen
vocal: Colin Meloy
electric guitar: Chris Funk and Colin Meloy
piano: Jenny Conlee
electric bass guitar: Nate Query
guest: Shara Worden
guest background vocals: Shara Worden
percussion: John Moen
harpsichord: Jenny Conlee
composer: Colin Meloy, Colin Meloy, Colin Meloy
lyricist: Colin Meloy, Colin Meloy, Colin Meloy
[Colin]
Mother I can hear your foot-fall now
Soft disturbance in the dead-fall how
It proceeds you like a black smoke pall
Still the wanting comes in waves
And you delivered me from danger then
Pulled my cradle from the reedy glen
Swore to save me from the world of men

Still the wanting comes in waves
In waves
And waves
And the wanting comes in waves
And the wanting comes in waves

And I want this night
And I want this night
Oh

[Shara]
How I made you
I wrought you, I pulled you
From war I labored you
From cancer I cradled you
And now

This is how I am repaid
This is how I am repaid

Remember when I found you
The miseries that hounded you
And I gave you motion
Anointed with lotions
And now

This is how I am repaid
This is how I am repaid

[Colin]
Mother hear this proposition right
Grant me freedom to enjoy this night
And I'll return to you at break of light
For the wanting comes in waves
And waves
And waves
Still the wanting comes in waves
Still the wanting comes in waves
Still the wanting comes in waves
And you owe me life
And you owe me life

[Shara]
And if I grant you this favor to hand you
Your life for the evening
I will retake by morning
And so
Consider it your debt repaid
Consider it your debt repaid
Repaid
Repaid



Tracklist
Digital Media 1
  • 1 Prelude
  • 2 The Hazards of Love 1 (The Prettiest Whistles Won’t Wrestle the Thistles Undone)
  • 3 A Bower Scene
  • 4 Won’t Want for Love (Margaret in the Taiga)
  • 5 The Hazards of Love 2 (Wager All)
  • 6 The Queen’s Approach
  • 7 Isn’t It a Lovely Night?
  • 8 The Wanting Comes in Waves / Repaid
  • 9 An Interlude
  • 10 The Rake’s Song
  • 11 The Abduction of Margaret
  • 12 The Queen’s Rebuke / The Crossing
  • 13 Annan Water
  • 14 Margaret in Captivity
  • 15 The Hazards of Love 3 (Revenge!)
  • 16 The Wanting Comes in Waves (reprise)
  • 17 The Hazards of Love 4 (The Drowned)