Portland-based indie rock darlings the Decemberists have unveiled a new lyric video for “Sucker’s Prayer,” a new single from I’ll Be Your Girl, their eighth album which dropped this past March.

The song is both a classic Decemberists track while adding a layer of reinvention to their characteristic folk rock. Meloy’s poetic musings about a failed suicide attempt at the loneliness of a “sucker” rings both melancholic and relatable.

“‘Sucker’s Prayer’ was a song that had sort of been kicking around for a little bit,” said Meloy about the song. “We’d actually played it live the past year and a half or so. I think it really grew out of just finding that chord— the A chord— and sitting on it. I think I was referencing like a Karen Dalton song when I was first messing around with it. The song just kind of really blossomed from that. It kind of turned into a country song. I didn’t think I was super comfortable with it being a country song. So I made it weird.”

The band has been busy over the past few months, as they’ve been busy touring, delighting fans all over the country. Two weeks ago, the indie pop folk rock quintet closed out the BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn!’s 2018 season in Prospect Park (a makeup show from June that they had to postpone due to Meloy suffering from vocal strain), playing the entirety of their beloved 2006 record The Crane Wife.

Just under a week later, the band visited CBS This Morning to perform three songs off of I’ll Be Your Girl, opening with a rendition of “Sucker’s Prayer,” following it up with “Once in My Life,” and closing out the set with the album’s title track.

Check out the new lyric video below.

Photo Credit: Sharon Alagnon