"The album title is taken from the fourth track, ‘Young Pilgrims’, James explains that the underlying theme of this record is about, “how your own thought processes can needlessly get you down when you should just learn techniques to fucking get over it"
According to James Mercer this song is about being optimistic and not overanalyzing. Look at this interview: http://www.gigwise.com/contents.asp?contentid=2377
"The album title is taken from the fourth track, ‘Young Pilgrims’, James explains that the underlying theme of this record is about, “how your own thought processes can needlessly get you down when you should just learn techniques to fucking get over it"