Daughters of the SoHo Riots

Futher clues to the general theme can be seen in most of the Narrators lines delivered to "the one he loves....

"How can anybody know How they got to be this way You must have known I'd do this someday"

This is masterful line. The narrator confesses ignorance to the invetible slide from innocence to wearied, yet to know that "I'd do this someday" both shows the narrator and his lover were fully aware but chose blissful self-deception.

later:

I don't have any questions I don't think it's gonna rain You were right about the end It didn't make a difference.

A great stanza outlining a boring an inevitable break-up. There are no questions left as everything has already been said -- in fact neither party has anything left to talk about at all.

"I don't think it's going to rain" --- talking about the weather is not only perceived as boring, but is often seen as the most non-intimate material for a conversation....a topic better left for strangers...who the lovers have become.

And as a bit of a stretch-- pathetic fallacy often appears in movies in which the weather mimics human emotion in various scenes...the most common is rain during an intensely depressive and emotional scene.....no rain means no emotion.

At odds with the lyrics and tone of the narrative is the tender way in which the song is sung by Berninger. The loving vocals end up being an ironic play on the content of the song....mournful....but apparently not mourning the loss of his love, rather the loss of the pairs innocence and what should have or could have been.