This song is an inspired homage to many of John Darnielle's friends and acquaintances in California and Portland, OR who succumbed to methamphetimine addiction. "All of the songs on We Shall All Be Healed are based on people John used to know. Most of them are probably dead or in jail by now." Not only is it a eulogy for those who were lost, but it is also for those, like himself, who were able to survive and escape from that lifestyle.
This song is for the rats
Who hurled themselves in to the ocean
When they saw that the explosives in the cargo
hold
Were just about to blow
The most explicit reference to drugs is the reminiscence of a desk in which drug paraphenelia (i.e. cottons, needles) would be stored.
This song is an inspired homage to many of John Darnielle's friends and acquaintances in California and Portland, OR who succumbed to methamphetimine addiction. "All of the songs on We Shall All Be Healed are based on people John used to know. Most of them are probably dead or in jail by now." Not only is it a eulogy for those who were lost, but it is also for those, like himself, who were able to survive and escape from that lifestyle.
This song is for the rats Who hurled themselves in to the ocean When they saw that the explosives in the cargo
hold Were just about to blow
The most explicit reference to drugs is the reminiscence of a desk in which drug paraphenelia (i.e. cottons, needles) would be stored.