The idea of the young girl, and an older guy (the video totally helped to enhance the imagery of the intro) make this contrast, she's lost and not worried but clueless, the old man is cynically happy, and very confident saying HEY WE'RE GOING TO A PARTY! A BIRTHDAY PARTY which is obviously sarcastic and a bit sad
I haven't looked into it much but i get that it's a bit about getting lost and a bit freed from all these rules "we must, we must, we must" and at the end the complacency of just being.
Another striking detail is the mother watering the plants, nurturing and taking care of their life while the father loads his gun -- which i think is his father killing himself. This is like a memory while they're about to die.
Also the fact that they're going into the ocean gives a sense of purification and being cleansed and giving up to something larger than them.
It's a beautiful song
Reminescent of the feeling you get from reading something like Camus or Fitzgerald
This is a poem in itself as Oberst often does
The idea of the young girl, and an older guy (the video totally helped to enhance the imagery of the intro) make this contrast, she's lost and not worried but clueless, the old man is cynically happy, and very confident saying HEY WE'RE GOING TO A PARTY! A BIRTHDAY PARTY which is obviously sarcastic and a bit sad
I haven't looked into it much but i get that it's a bit about getting lost and a bit freed from all these rules "we must, we must, we must" and at the end the complacency of just being.
Another striking detail is the mother watering the plants, nurturing and taking care of their life while the father loads his gun -- which i think is his father killing himself. This is like a memory while they're about to die.
Also the fact that they're going into the ocean gives a sense of purification and being cleansed and giving up to something larger than them.
It's a beautiful song Reminescent of the feeling you get from reading something like Camus or Fitzgerald
=] complacently ddepressing