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| The National – I Should Live in Salt Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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I believe the title is referencing the story from the Old Testament of Lot and his family. In the story, angels visit the city of Sodom on a mission to destroy it (as God deems it to be an irredemable city of sin). The angels gather Lot and his family, who are deemed to be worth saving, and tell them what is about to happen. They warn them that they are to flee the city and are not to look back. But Lot's wife does look back as they flee, and is immediately turned into a pillar of salt.
The song similarly seems to be about living with the guilt of leaving behind the people you can't save or (in the instance of this song) perhaps the guilt of never really trying to save them. Never probing deeper. |
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