| Okkervil River – Down Down the Deep River Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Fantastic song. I think it's about the singer remembering his childhood best friend's death, wishing the friend could still be here ("Play it again and again–it cuts off at the ending though. Tell me I’m always gonna be your best friend. Now you said it one time, why don’t you say it again?"), and more abstractly, the loss of his innocence. For the first time, all the adults in his life failed him. The friend may have been murdered, I suppose, by the "very bad men." The singer called for help but the "adults" that were meant to save him were just kids themselves ("the volunteer team–ah, they’re just kids of eighteen, and it’s the worst thing they’ve seen") and they couldn't help. He recalls how his father, another "adult", tried to comfort him ("Maybe they told you ‘bout the summer sky, maybe they said there’s a great gold spirit in the summer sky or all your friends (all your best, best friends) are gonna gather around your bed at night") but ultimately it was still "not even close to alright." |
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