| The Mountain Goats – Pigs That Ran Straightaway into the Water, Triumph of Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| or Claremont could mean the college (Darnielle went to Pitzer College, which is part of the Claremont schools), and that he'll go lie low in college for a while to stay away from the environment in which he has fallen prey to drugs. | |
| The Mountain Goats – Pigs That Ran Straightaway into the Water, Triumph of Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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He is talking to his own demons, which are the temptations of drug use. He is trying to convince the temptations to stay away. He tells the drugs that he, in fact, has the upper hand because he has seen and lived through the negative effects of drug use. He uses Chino to represent the tragic results of drug dependency, because lots of people there (and possibly him) have suffered through it on the streets of Chino, which is indeed a rough place. He has seen the worst of it, and that is what will make him strong enough to avoid the temptation. "And even if I have to go to Claremont Well I guess I'll just have to go to Claremont" Claremont is a rehab facility outside of Chicago...he is saying that even if he has to go to rehab to resist the temptations, he will. He's been through life with drugs and seen the consequences, and he has grown strong enough to resist the urges and the dark messengers (dealers). Going back to the biblical reference of the title, the triumph of the pigs was that they killed the demons that had haunted the men before jesus cast them out, which is what he wants to do to his demons. |
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