| The Decemberists – We Both Go Down Together Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Okay okay. There is obviously lots of confusion on what is going on with 'Leslie Ann Levine' and 'We both go down Together' So I'm going to explain it in the way I see it. The man in We Both Go Down Together is wealthy. (I come from wealth and beauty/Untouched by work or duty) The woman in We Both Go Down Together is poor. (You come from parents wanton/A childhood rough and rotten) The man falls in love with the woman. God knows whether it is true love or not, but he loves her passionately enough to go against his parent's wishes, in which he does by raping her against her will. read; (I laid you down on the grass of a clearing/You wept but your soul was willing)((read; I raped her in a field somewhere, she fought but she was actually enjoying it)) I don't think he used very good protection, and he might have made the poor-girl pregnant. Now, the man knows that his parents would never consent to this love, so he waits a good long time and plans for him and his 'Miranda' to meet by the cliffs, so they could be immortalized in soul. and to also note that the man would rather commit suicide than let his folks find out he banged a peasant-girl. So he tries to get her to jump. Now this part is a little bit shady, but I think our mother steps back right as they jump, so she survives. Now there is no proof or hint in the song that suggests this, but if you look carefully at the tense that the song was written in, the song seems to take place during the time in which he was asking her to meet him to jump. (We fall but our souls are flying I read like we WILL fall but our souls are flying. you know why? because when he says meet me at my vast veranda he says MEET which is future tense. so the jumping hasn't happened yet, so from that I gathered that he is calling for her to jump.) And what comes next is a mystery, because it is up to the listener to decide whether the girl (who definitely doesn't want to die with an evil rich douche who raped her, mind you) jumps or not. I don't think she jumps, I think she runs away, births Leslie Ann Levine in a dry Ravine, and continues living her life plagued by thoughts of her dead child and rapist. this is how leslie ann levine haunts her. Which kindof ties in with tps12 |
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| The Decemberists – The Island: Come and See; The Landlord's Daughter; You'll Not Feel the Drowning Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I hadn't read 'Tempest' but this Miranda character... "meet me on my vast veranda; my sweet untouched Miranda" - We both go down together In that song the man does attempt/succeed in raping their 'Miranda' Is it just me or does it seem like the landlord's daughter may have a small connection with 'We both go down together'? And in that case, 'Leslie Ann Levine'? Just a thought |
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