We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed

Here's Gareth talking about the song in an interview..

TNG: Tell me more about the relationship, it really comes through over the course of “We are Beautiful…” Who is this person that makes you so miserable?

GC: It was a relationship I never should have gotten into in the first place. I don’t want to be harsh, they’re a lovely person. I have no real hard feelings toward them despite what the record might suggest. They showed an interest in me, I was incredibly flattered. They were very attractive and intelligent and good fun. And then as a result, because I’m pretty emotionally retarded, I entered quickly and it got reasonably intense a lot quicker than any sensible human would let a relationship get. Then I went to America for two months and the way it went when I was away was barely worth existing.

I’m just thinking about how honest I should be –I want to be honest in what I do–basically there was another person I should have gone out with, but if I had gone out with them would have been very serious. The girl I went out with, she should have been with another guy. I don’t know why we were together, when I discuss it it really does seem pathetic. But that’s the gist of it, the record was just me complaining about her. She’s a little younger than me, and despite her being really intelligent it shows at times. I have to reiterate she’s a lovely and nice person, but not a good girlfriend for me.

TNG: Do you think she recognized herself in your songs? span>

GC: Yeah, which is why I don’t understand why she hasn’t spoken to me about it. They they were written before we broke up, partly because I knew we had to break up. I knew that I was a pussy and I wouldn’t have the guts to do it. I knew that by writing these songs it would have to end before the record was released. It was just inevitable. If she has heard it she must appreciate that there’s no malicious intent.

one of the best songs on the album in my opinion.

i love it when gareth screams "I HOPE MY HEART GOES FIRST!"

This song is about a homosexual relationship that happened between Gareth and Sparky Deathcap, "we are beautiful, we are doomed" - they know that their relationship is beautiful but it is doomed because they're both men. "We kid ourselves there's future in the fucking, but there is not fucking future" They kid themselves into thinking the relationship can continue while having sex, but they know deep down there's no future for them. "we both know your heart's not in it" - Sparky was really reluctant at first, I think he may have been straight when Gareth first made a move on him.

"You said he got his teeth fixed" is an obvious reference to Sparky's song Berlin Syndrome

That's just my interpretation of it anyway everyone interprets things differently but I'm pretty sure this is what the song's about.

I'm pretty certain it's "we kid ourselves there's future in the fucking", not "kill ourselves"

i love los campesinos! <3

one of the best songs on the album in my opinion.

i love it when gareth screams "I HOPE MY HEART GOES FIRST!"

"By the light of the LED display of the VCR recorder"

"With the glow of a thousand fireflies In a travelodge en suite Don't think the future's bright as halogen We know it's pretty bleak And I'm trying to be sexy But I emit the air that falls in front of me."

Holy mother of god this stuff is really genius.

how did you get the new album, i thought it wasnt out untill next month?

amazing song though :)

I thought it was... "With the glow of a thousand fireflies In a travelodge en suite They think the future's bright as halogen We know it's pretty bleak" which was talking about them heading towards the light, and inevitably being burnt by it which i guess is an analogy for us might be wrong, but thats what i figured it was when i listened to the song