I just finished reading a fairly lengthly interview Colin Meloy gave awhile back for a Seattle weekly paper; Meloy had mentioned this particular song as being one of the few he had ever written that was autobiographical in nature. Starting out with the bad movie date then moving onto an unfulfilling sexual encounter, the male character in the song doesn't seem surprised when the woman casually waves farewell as she rides off to supposedly go visit her folks. All along he has had this persistant gut feeling that their short liason would not have led to anything serious even under the best of circumstances, but this insight still doesn't make their final parting any less painful for him. Ultimately, this is a well-written and all-too-real account of this man's guilt and fustration whereas he and the woman he had the brief fling with couldn't make this evolve into something more romantically meaningful. I can definitely relate to this song as oftentimes just the process of dating, much less attempting to establish an intimate bond with another person, does involve a lot of rejection and hurt feelings. Falling in love is no easy task!
I just finished reading a fairly lengthly interview Colin Meloy gave awhile back for a Seattle weekly paper; Meloy had mentioned this particular song as being one of the few he had ever written that was autobiographical in nature. Starting out with the bad movie date then moving onto an unfulfilling sexual encounter, the male character in the song doesn't seem surprised when the woman casually waves farewell as she rides off to supposedly go visit her folks. All along he has had this persistant gut feeling that their short liason would not have led to anything serious even under the best of circumstances, but this insight still doesn't make their final parting any less painful for him. Ultimately, this is a well-written and all-too-real account of this man's guilt and fustration whereas he and the woman he had the brief fling with couldn't make this evolve into something more romantically meaningful. I can definitely relate to this song as oftentimes just the process of dating, much less attempting to establish an intimate bond with another person, does involve a lot of rejection and hurt feelings. Falling in love is no easy task!