Tracklist:
A1 The Singer Addresses His Audience 4:43
A2 Cavalry Captain 3:18
A3 Philomena 3:05
A4 Make You Better 5:08
B1 Lake Song 5:52
B2 Till The Water’s All Long Gone 5:00
B3 The Wrong Year 3:53
B4 Carolina Low 3:24
B5 Better Not Wake The Baby 1:45
C1 Anti-Summersong 2:12
C2 Easy Come, Easy Go 2:22
C3 Mistral 3:54
C4 12/17/12 3:03
C5 A Beginning Song 5:22
What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful World is the seventh studio album from The Decemberists, released on January 20, 2015. The album’s title comes from a line in the song 12/17/12, a reference to the date of Barack Obama’s speech in response to the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting and lead singer Colin Meloy’s conflicting feelings about the shooting and his happy personal life.