Jonnyxx, I was at Reading and I saw them do that. It's not the only time I've seen them do that too.
Since the first time I heard this song I thought it was about two friends who like the same girl, and one of them is trying to convince himself that it's okay, just like Southbound says.
Also if you see the video with the full story (they have two on youtube, one of them is edited together with a performance and one is just the story of the two boys and the girl without the edits), it supports this. It shows Stevie and Stuart clearly both in love with the same girl, then one night Stuart gets the girl and Stevie is destroyed, but at the end it shows him taking photos of them before they speed off in the car together to the lines "you will be married and you'll be gone". It's incredibly sad.
I think this is my faourite belle and sebastian song because it's just so simple but it makes so much sense. Oh, and the lines "it's not as if i'm being sent off to war, there are worse things in this world" are always helpful for a broken heart.
Jonnyxx, I was at Reading and I saw them do that. It's not the only time I've seen them do that too.
Since the first time I heard this song I thought it was about two friends who like the same girl, and one of them is trying to convince himself that it's okay, just like Southbound says.
Also if you see the video with the full story (they have two on youtube, one of them is edited together with a performance and one is just the story of the two boys and the girl without the edits), it supports this. It shows Stevie and Stuart clearly both in love with the same girl, then one night Stuart gets the girl and Stevie is destroyed, but at the end it shows him taking photos of them before they speed off in the car together to the lines "you will be married and you'll be gone". It's incredibly sad.
I think this is my faourite belle and sebastian song because it's just so simple but it makes so much sense. Oh, and the lines "it's not as if i'm being sent off to war, there are worse things in this world" are always helpful for a broken heart.