We Both Go Down Together Lyrics

Lyric discussion by fadetoflashes 

Cover art for We Both Go Down Together lyrics by Decemberists, The

This is not a prequel to Leslie Anne Levine. That song was about, in short, an aborted child whose ghost still haunts the general vicinity of her death. She is in love with the ghost of a chimney sweep, who most certainly would not come from "wealth and beauty". This is about star crossed lovers who commit suicide together. Snap.