The beauty of the postal service and deathcab (ben gibbard in general) is that alot of the time, the music sets a different theme from the message conveyed in the lyrics. Brand New Colony is such a song.
To me, the song is about a premeditated homocide/suicide. Note the sound of a revolver clicking before the song. The speaker in the song is obsessed about protective someone from the evils of the earthly world and he sees no better way to do it than killing that person then himself. Note the line about cutting their "bodies free".
The beauty of the postal service and deathcab (ben gibbard in general) is that alot of the time, the music sets a different theme from the message conveyed in the lyrics. Brand New Colony is such a song.
To me, the song is about a premeditated homocide/suicide. Note the sound of a revolver clicking before the song. The speaker in the song is obsessed about protective someone from the evils of the earthly world and he sees no better way to do it than killing that person then himself. Note the line about cutting their "bodies free".
Twisted. And awesome. Pure fucking genius.