We Can't Be Beat

So...We Can't Be Beat. A well titled song with a catchy tune and a reality more true than even the lyrics can describe. The Walkmen always seem to put together a catchy tune with the right amount of lyrics. I feel as though the lyrics are rather self-explanitory but its worth adding a few words in here to say, yep, you can't be beat... at least not with a song like this. Can't wait for the full release of Heaven and what it offers as full compilation.

I guess i have to add. I have to believe this a serenade for a great love, the type we all dream about, where nothing else matters but the trust and partnership of that love.

I think this song is about changing your perception of the world, and your standards, as you get older.

The narrator is clearly dismissing "perfection" and "golden dreams" (like being the Duke of Earl or the Pony Express) as unreasonable and unobtainable. Youthful wishes. Trying to achieve things you can't will only leave you lonely and unhappy. It seems to take the narrator "so long" to finally learn that the more important things in life are truth and love and that's when the song breaks into its upbeat outro.

The narrator can't be beat at this point, because he isn't trying to obtain anything that he doesn't already have. He's happy and content. The reason he can't be beat isn't because he's invincible. It's because he isn't competing anymore.

Completely minor Lyric correction. In the part where he signs "Nobody loves, loves perfection" I think it should actually be "Nobody loves love's perfection". While only being a minimal grammar correction gives that line a completely new meaning. Over all yet another great fucking song.

Golden dreams, all lose their glow I don't need perfection, I love the whole