There's a huge recurring theme in almost all Okkervil albums about impossible or irretrievable love and how hard it is to deal with. Black Sheep Boy was all about a man watching a woman fall in love with the wrong man (For Real, Song of Our So-Called Friend, A Stone, So Come Back, I am Waiting, etc.). And then obviously the album Don't Fall In Love With Everyone You See was about exactly what it sounds like. So now, different album, similar story. It Ends with a Fall is pretty much the same thing but now it's not just any girl, it is his best friend. Watching your best friend of the opposite sex fall in love with "puny suitors I can see through" is probably one of the most frustrating things to experience, frustrating enough that he had to do something about it and it led to the downfall of his friendship with her. It's a shame, but sometimes you just can't help it.
There's a huge recurring theme in almost all Okkervil albums about impossible or irretrievable love and how hard it is to deal with. Black Sheep Boy was all about a man watching a woman fall in love with the wrong man (For Real, Song of Our So-Called Friend, A Stone, So Come Back, I am Waiting, etc.). And then obviously the album Don't Fall In Love With Everyone You See was about exactly what it sounds like. So now, different album, similar story. It Ends with a Fall is pretty much the same thing but now it's not just any girl, it is his best friend. Watching your best friend of the opposite sex fall in love with "puny suitors I can see through" is probably one of the most frustrating things to experience, frustrating enough that he had to do something about it and it led to the downfall of his friendship with her. It's a shame, but sometimes you just can't help it.
Pretty sad.