Lyric discussion by Thierry14 

Excuse me? Colin Meloy? I'll stick with this version. One of the best songs ever written.

It's about how life in general is "Silent and Gray" and when people get a chance they 'Escape' to lovely fun towns were all of your cares will go away. But then you get there and you realise that it feels 200 times worse.

"Etch a postcard : 'How I Dearly Wish I Was Not Here' In the seaside town ...that they forgot to bomb"

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