Each Year Lyrics

Lyric discussion by baseball8722 

Cover art for Each Year lyrics by Ra Ra Riot

Yes this whole song is a reference to To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee

To add on...

"Vapor lamps in a parking lot You can’t see when it’s much too far All that mist in your eyes Oh, in the night"

That is a reference to the scene in which they are walking back from Scout's school play across the parking lot in the dark and they are followed by Bob Ewell who is trying to kill them in revenge for Atticus implying accusations against him and defending Tom Robinson. He is too afraid to go after Atticus so when he is drunk, he tries for his kids.

"What you're hiding in your back yard Is turning innocence to apathy And accusations at another man"

This most likelt refers to Bob Ewell making accusations against Tom Robinson about Rape on his daugther to cover up himself beating her when eh is drunk which he his "Hiding"

So those are just my interpretations

the song is To Kill A Mockingbird.

"Silhouttes in the window frame" refering to boo

It says "Boo's old man"

"Wont know if your white in the night" for the fact in the garden when he fires the gun

"Covering a fault with trials and coy displays" talking about that family that accuses Tim Robison.

80 years is what Robinson received

"What you're hiding in your back yard Is turning innocence to apathy And accusations at another man" about the mans daughter sleeping with Robison

"Never mind what your Daughter is taught...