Evan and Amy were briefly engaged/married during/after Heart, which is an album about love and it's much more optimistic. This album is really sad, bittersweet I'd say. This song sets the exact tone for the rest of the album. I have felt this. My next door neighboor has felt this. that feeling the capture is incredible. I agree, in the low level dynamics of the song, the story is sort of girl gets dumped, time passes, sees boy again but now the person she loved is dead, and this new person, this new skin and body that looks like that person, can't even remember your name. But that's fine, she found real love, someone who actually got inside, reached deep and loved her. He didn't and so, she stands there, majestically, thinking "you only saw beauty outside of me...you pig...Repent all your sin!" and "I'll send you a postcard from the house down the way...from REAL love!" but at the same time she's sad and still hurt. She'll never get over it. We never do; that's why we are humans. I think this album is alot like MountainGoat's "Tallahassee" in terms of the themes. It's an album about the eventual downfall and reconstruction of love in a couple. These are albums to live through the winter and emerge in the snow. Jesus, music is amazing.
More importantly, these albums (and Arcade Fire, Radiohead, Clap Your Hands, Death Cab, Bloc Party, Broken Social Scene, Neutral Milk Hotel) feel like what our generation is. They say on the official website that "Stars went into a cabin and smoked and drank and set themselves on fire, and when they emerged"...our generation is the generation of spiritual immolation, of chemical inbalances, Prozac/Zoloft/Ritalin/Adderall/Alcohol, all of that medication we have ingested. these bands represent musically what we are. they are the music of our generation.
Evan and Amy were briefly engaged/married during/after Heart, which is an album about love and it's much more optimistic. This album is really sad, bittersweet I'd say. This song sets the exact tone for the rest of the album. I have felt this. My next door neighboor has felt this. that feeling the capture is incredible. I agree, in the low level dynamics of the song, the story is sort of girl gets dumped, time passes, sees boy again but now the person she loved is dead, and this new person, this new skin and body that looks like that person, can't even remember your name. But that's fine, she found real love, someone who actually got inside, reached deep and loved her. He didn't and so, she stands there, majestically, thinking "you only saw beauty outside of me...you pig...Repent all your sin!" and "I'll send you a postcard from the house down the way...from REAL love!" but at the same time she's sad and still hurt. She'll never get over it. We never do; that's why we are humans. I think this album is alot like MountainGoat's "Tallahassee" in terms of the themes. It's an album about the eventual downfall and reconstruction of love in a couple. These are albums to live through the winter and emerge in the snow. Jesus, music is amazing. More importantly, these albums (and Arcade Fire, Radiohead, Clap Your Hands, Death Cab, Bloc Party, Broken Social Scene, Neutral Milk Hotel) feel like what our generation is. They say on the official website that "Stars went into a cabin and smoked and drank and set themselves on fire, and when they emerged"...our generation is the generation of spiritual immolation, of chemical inbalances, Prozac/Zoloft/Ritalin/Adderall/Alcohol, all of that medication we have ingested. these bands represent musically what we are. they are the music of our generation.
Wow, that is just brilliant. Thank you so much for posting!!
Wow, that is just brilliant. Thank you so much for posting!!