This song is the defining moment of the album, "Full Force Galesburg." All the other songs turn around the moment enshrined in this one. Or so Darnielle sees it:
All that was left later was the vision of the two of us crossing the parking lot toward the blazing room off the interstate half an hour past Iowa over on the other side of the Mississippi. These songs are about what made that moment either possible or inevitable, depending on how you look at it.
This song is the defining moment of the album, "Full Force Galesburg." All the other songs turn around the moment enshrined in this one. Or so Darnielle sees it:
from cool quote #2 (themountaingoats.net/music/galesburg.html):
All that was left later was the vision of the two of us crossing the parking lot toward the blazing room off the interstate half an hour past Iowa over on the other side of the Mississippi. These songs are about what made that moment either possible or inevitable, depending on how you look at it.