"Down By the Water" - The Decemberists

1. According to the Down By The Water Songfacts, the song features R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck, who contributes 12-string guitar, and singer-songwriter Gillian Welch, who provides vocal harmonies.
   Even before Buck’s contribution, the song was heavily influenced by R.E.M. Frontman Colin Meloy told Rolling Stone it, “started out as more of a paean to R.E.M. than I think any of us really wanted it to be. “The band played around with the song to make it sound a bit less like Reckoning before Buck joined the party.
   
   
   Down By the Water
   
   
   See this ancient river bed
   See where all my follies led
   Down by the water and down by the old main drag
   
   I was just some tow-head teen
   Feeling 'round for fingers to get in between
   Down by the water and down by the old main drag
   
   (chorus)
   The season rubs me wrong
   The summer swells anon
   So knock me down, tear me up
   But I would bear it all broken just to fill my cup
   Down by the water and down by the old main drag
   
   Sweet descend this rabble 'round
   The pretty little patter of a seaboard town
   Rolling in the water and rolling down the old main drag
   
   All dolled up in gabardine
   The lash-flashing Leda of pier nineteen
   Queen of the water and queen of the old main drag
   
   (chorus)
   The season rubs me wrong
   The summer swells anon
   So knock me down, tear me up
   But I would bear it all broken just to fill my cup
   Down by the water and down by the old main drag
   
   (chorus)
   The season rubs me wrong
   The summer swells anon
   So knock me down, tear me up
   But I would bear it all broken just to fill my cup
   Down by the water and down by the old main drag
   
   Down by the water and down by the old main drag
   Down by the water and down by the old main drag