Lyric discussion by OctaVariuM8 

When things get tough in life, you have no choice but to remove yourself from the situation and hope for the best. Here, Darnielle or his character feels like they need to erase what happened in the past and move on, but they are constantly haunted in a way by their old lover/mate/family member.

I love what he does with this song and the electric guitar too by the way.

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