| The Delgados – The Drowning Years Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I see this as a song about a man with a wife who has a terminal illness. The "demons" are her anger and frustration, with both her condition and with the situation (doctors, insurance, etc). The chorus is him trying to lose his mind in his inability to help and sadness/anger, and her attempt to console him. Him: Destroy the noises that make all the voices Get them out of my head Her: Bring on the screaming and I'll take your demons now that I'm all already dead In the second half, during one of her fewer and fewer periods of consciousness, she decides she wants to die. I think he helps her commit suicide, and either gets arrested or lots of negative attention. That could explain the last line " I'm still not sure if the right and the wrong side is one"... Anyway, just how I chose to interpret this song. Like the vocal effect at the end. |
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