I enjoy all the interpretations here, especially lamp shade's, however; I saw Colin Meloy live at the Beachcomber in Cape Cod, MA and I recorded most of it, so for you, I will transpose his explanation:
"So let me explain something: so the earlier song, "we both go down together," is really intended to be the prequel to this song. Yeah, but, but, I,but theres a little bit of explaining that needs to be done. So in that song, the two are perched on the cliff ready to dive off, when in fact, the woman steps away, the man, the cad, falls off to his death. But the women, impregnated, has, has the baby, in a ditch, and dies. So its all really tragic but thats sort of how it goes. So anyway, we'll continue."
cad (as defined by the american heritage dictionary): A man whose behavior is unprincipled or dishonorable.
I kind of hate to put an end to the whole abortion idea and whatnot but I thought some of you would really like to know what Colin said.
I enjoy all the interpretations here, especially lamp shade's, however; I saw Colin Meloy live at the Beachcomber in Cape Cod, MA and I recorded most of it, so for you, I will transpose his explanation:
"So let me explain something: so the earlier song, "we both go down together," is really intended to be the prequel to this song. Yeah, but, but, I,but theres a little bit of explaining that needs to be done. So in that song, the two are perched on the cliff ready to dive off, when in fact, the woman steps away, the man, the cad, falls off to his death. But the women, impregnated, has, has the baby, in a ditch, and dies. So its all really tragic but thats sort of how it goes. So anyway, we'll continue."
cad (as defined by the american heritage dictionary): A man whose behavior is unprincipled or dishonorable.
I kind of hate to put an end to the whole abortion idea and whatnot but I thought some of you would really like to know what Colin said.