| The War On Drugs – Thinking of a Place Lyrics | 5 years ago |
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I've always interpreted this incredibly gorgeous song to be, pretty straightforwardly, about the equivocation of love and place. All of the memories we have of love, of something real and true that once knocked us off our feet, are attached to place – it is hard to even think back on the moments in which we felt true love without thinking about the place that gave birth to it. The memories Granduciel sings about in the first verses are such places, and they are offset against his present, which is dark (hence impossible to get one's bearings in) save for the moon and its guidance to something better. The key, to me, is found in the titular chorus line: "I'm thinking of a place, and it feels so very real". As someone who's traveled across the world to be with loved ones more than once, this is such a poignant line. This act of imagining real love as something coinciding with – perhaps only possible within – a particular kind of place one has imagined – is such a vivid, melancholy, desperate, yet life-affirming thing. The music brilliantly mirrors this double feeling of sadness and beauty. |
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