Young Pilgrims Lyrics

Lyric discussion by goforgusto 

Cover art for Young Pilgrims lyrics by Shins, The

The title reminds me of Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown."

I agree. He goes down seeing all of these people who he believed to be good, listening to the message of fairy tales, and then finds out that everyone can be evil, or in his case, everyone IS evil. This is the modern thought part of the song. It got the best of Goodman Brown, and Mercer warns that it could get the best of you.