Lyric discussion by modestmousketeer 

Cover art for How Near How Far lyrics by ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead

verses said in nursery rhymes... hmmm I think we're on to something.. I mean ring around the rosies was all about the black plague. And nearly every kid's song like that is just used as some subtle pavlovian vehicle to whip our super-absorbant adolescent minds into an agenda for our outlooks later in life. I don't think this song is about a past relationship.. I suppose not a romantic one. I think it's definitely about childhood. And in the linear sense of our past, it's quite far away. However, we carry the past in our minds...how near, how far... But the memories of the past get lost just like car keys.