This Week's "Song That's Stuck In My Head"

The song that has been stuck in my head this week is June Hymn by The Decemberists. Now, The Decemberists were one of the first independent bands that I really fell in love with and I have been following them for quite some time now. They have a new CD out called The King is Dead, and it is pretty much ah-mazing. My favorite song from the album (and believe me, it's hard to choose) is June Hymn. It is just an uplifting song about new life and growth that takes place in the early summer. Everything is fresh and new from spring and June Hymn describes perfectly the feeling you get when you see all the newness around you, yet the melancholy feeling  of the end of something as well . I personally love it.

I am also very excited that on August 6, my husband and I will be at the Ryman Auditorium downtown to see The Decemberists play live. I've never seen them before, so I am really stoked! Also, they are one of the few bands I listen to that Grant loves as well. So this year, for our 8th anniversary, Grant got me tickets to see them. I can't think of a better gift I could have received!

I hope you enjoy this song as much as I do, and I hope it gets stuck in your head too!

June Hymn Lyrics
Here's a hymn to welcome in the day
Heralding a summer's early sway
And all the bulbs all coming in
To begin
The thrushes bleating battle with the wrens
Disrupts my reverie again

Pegging clothing on the line
Training jasmine how to vine
Up the arbor to your door
And more
You're standing on the landing with the war
You shouldered all the night before

And once upon it
The yellow bonnets
Garland all the lawn
And you were waking
And day was breaking
A panoply of song
And summer comes to Springville Hill

A barony of ivy in the trees
Expanding out its empire by degrees
And all the branches burst to bloom
In the boom
Heaven sent this cardinal maroon
To decorate our living room

And once upon it
The yellow bonnets
Garland all the lawn
And you were waking
And day was breaking
A panoply of song
And summer comes to Springville Hill

And years from now when this old light
Isn't ambling anymore
Will I bring myself to write
"I give my best to Springville Hill"

And once upon it
The yellow bonnets
Garland all the lawn
And you were waking
And day was breaking
A panoply of song
And summer comes to Springville Hill