| The Decemberists – 12/17/12 Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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Colin talks about this song in an interview with Salon: https://www.salon.com/2015/01/18/colin_meloy_out_came_the_dirtiest_decemberists_song_ever_written/ One of the other centerpieces, the song which gives the album its title, is the Sandy Hook song, “12/17/12.” It sounds like a truly personal reaction, as if you wrote this as an emotional pouring-out, trying to make sense of this at a time when children were on your mind. Yeah. Hank was a first-grader, so he was the same age as those kids. And there was even one kid who was an autistic kid, and Hank is autistic. The closer you can map your own life onto these things -- is that what makes them real? There’s something really superficial about that. So I'm hesitant to say that this is any kind of centerpiece because I don't think it is. And in fact, I didn't initially want to put too much of a point on the fact that it was written about that incident because I didn't feel as if I could really communicate what was happening. I don't know that I have any place trying to write a song that’s directly about what happened. I don't think it’s in my powers. I don't think I’m good enough. I think that that was just what a lot of people did at that time, and I think it wasn’t until hearing the names read... It took several days to process. I feel like when the names were read at that press conference, suddenly I was able to start processing it in a way that I think was helpful, in that I think a lot of people were taking stock of their own surroundings in their own world. I was doing that and wanting to bring my family closer to me and bring in the protective embrace -- but then also feeling sort of unmoored from what that pain must be for someone else. |
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| The Lumineers – Long Way from Home Lyrics | 7 years ago |
| Wesley mentioned during their 1/20/17 show that this was about his father's fight with a form of cancer that started in his jaw | |
| The Decemberists – Sixteen Military Wives Lyrics | 7 years ago |
| Colin mentioned last night (2/26/17) that this song is him musing about the start of the Iraq War coinciding with the Oscars telecast. The war started March 20, 2003 and the Oscars were March 23 that year. | |
| The Decemberists – The Wanting Comes in Waves/Repaid Lyrics | 7 years ago |
| @[ab1897:18256] My thoughts exactly - although I didn't get that until about my tenth time through the album. | |
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