Not about meaning, but just a little story to share about this song.
There was this boy that died in high school, and everybody was just so horribly saddened (we had a small student body and he was a really popular guy who was into community service.) He died at his own fault by driving drunk and without a seatbelt and answering his cell phone while on the highway and flew out his windshield. (I'd hate to be the girl that called him) Anyway, we all just came back from his funeral (which was held during the school day, we all field tripped to the chruch and back) and we were in art class, where I was the one who usually brought the music for the day. I love Decemberists so I decided to put them on because they were pretty mellow and quiet, and I put on Castaways and Cutouts and just let it run. I didn't really think twice about the content, because when this song came on and the lyrics went:
"And we are vagabonds
We travel without seatbelts on
We live this close to death "
everyone froze and we were all just kinda looking around like I can't believe we just played this song. Ugh. I can't listen to this song without feeling bad about that now. sigh
Not about meaning, but just a little story to share about this song.
There was this boy that died in high school, and everybody was just so horribly saddened (we had a small student body and he was a really popular guy who was into community service.) He died at his own fault by driving drunk and without a seatbelt and answering his cell phone while on the highway and flew out his windshield. (I'd hate to be the girl that called him) Anyway, we all just came back from his funeral (which was held during the school day, we all field tripped to the chruch and back) and we were in art class, where I was the one who usually brought the music for the day. I love Decemberists so I decided to put them on because they were pretty mellow and quiet, and I put on Castaways and Cutouts and just let it run. I didn't really think twice about the content, because when this song came on and the lyrics went:
"And we are vagabonds We travel without seatbelts on We live this close to death "
everyone froze and we were all just kinda looking around like I can't believe we just played this song. Ugh. I can't listen to this song without feeling bad about that now. sigh