New Decemberists - "Raincoat Song"

Fresh off a late-night performance of "Days Of Elaine," the Decemberists are back with Always The Bridesmaid: Vol. III A-side "Raincoat Song," which fittingly focuses on a woman named Caroline, angry because at 28 she sleeps "like a spinster." It's a brief, basic, downcast track that doesn't go for "Valerie Plame's group sing-a-long/epic exit. As its title suggests, it's more in the vein of the rainy love story of "O New England," but here there's no love. That's the point: "Going off half-cock...

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