User "Gita" posted this in the comments for Okkervil River's song "Black," but you can see the story comes from her fourth-hand, but I agree with the commenter who speculated that she was confused. Sounds like a good explanation for this song:
Gita posted:
"I pretty much signed up so I could say this.
I was talking to a friend (she played this song for me, I had never heard of the band before) and she was telling me about how she (or perhaps a friend of hers) went to see Okkervil River, and they played this song and explained it a little bit. For the sake of making this easy to follow, I've given the following people names. A friend of the band (Mike) and his girlfriend (Christine) were watching the news, and the Christine's ex-longtime boyfriend (Case) was on it, promoting a book or something, and he was talking about how much he loved his wife and new kids and how much they helped him and how he'd never be the guy he was without him, and he never once mentioned Christine. Apparently, at one point, Case broke Christine's heart. She's really upset, and Mike has no idea how to deal with it, because Case was her first love, and she can't really hate him the way he does, she's too busy trying to forget and/or not be heartbroken. Simultaneously, Mike is trying to get her to love him as much as she loved Case, but he knows that isn't possible. He trying to be there for her, but that also hurts him, because by acknowloedging how much she loved Case, it puts a wall (or door!) between them.
Take in mind that a) I heard this through a couple friends and b) I TOTALLY JUST PULLED THOSE NAMES OUT OF MY ASS, I HAVE NO IDEA IF THIS IS TRUE OR NOT.
When I heard this song, I never heard molestation in it at all, and while that's a valid interpretation, I saw it as more along the lines of like, you love somebody so much you'd kill someone that fucked their life up and broke their heart, even if they don't want it. I guess that applies to the molestation interpretation as well, but that meaning seems really specific to me. Like, I can see how everyone got that, but I don't feel it was explicitely written in the song. Or maybe I always just take the more general meaning of the song rather than the super specific one. Who knows!"
User "Gita" posted this in the comments for Okkervil River's song "Black," but you can see the story comes from her fourth-hand, but I agree with the commenter who speculated that she was confused. Sounds like a good explanation for this song:
Gita posted:
"I pretty much signed up so I could say this.
I was talking to a friend (she played this song for me, I had never heard of the band before) and she was telling me about how she (or perhaps a friend of hers) went to see Okkervil River, and they played this song and explained it a little bit. For the sake of making this easy to follow, I've given the following people names. A friend of the band (Mike) and his girlfriend (Christine) were watching the news, and the Christine's ex-longtime boyfriend (Case) was on it, promoting a book or something, and he was talking about how much he loved his wife and new kids and how much they helped him and how he'd never be the guy he was without him, and he never once mentioned Christine. Apparently, at one point, Case broke Christine's heart. She's really upset, and Mike has no idea how to deal with it, because Case was her first love, and she can't really hate him the way he does, she's too busy trying to forget and/or not be heartbroken. Simultaneously, Mike is trying to get her to love him as much as she loved Case, but he knows that isn't possible. He trying to be there for her, but that also hurts him, because by acknowloedging how much she loved Case, it puts a wall (or door!) between them. Take in mind that a) I heard this through a couple friends and b) I TOTALLY JUST PULLED THOSE NAMES OUT OF MY ASS, I HAVE NO IDEA IF THIS IS TRUE OR NOT.
When I heard this song, I never heard molestation in it at all, and while that's a valid interpretation, I saw it as more along the lines of like, you love somebody so much you'd kill someone that fucked their life up and broke their heart, even if they don't want it. I guess that applies to the molestation interpretation as well, but that meaning seems really specific to me. Like, I can see how everyone got that, but I don't feel it was explicitely written in the song. Or maybe I always just take the more general meaning of the song rather than the super specific one. Who knows!"