Anyone noticed how most of their songs, while beautiful, contain some reference to death? Or even some kind of grevious injury. Usually in a kind of quirkily poetic, but also melancholy and haunting way, where it sounds so pretty and innocent, but when you look at the lyric is actually kind of disturbing!
Because we're dead - kinda speaks for itself
Come on Youth:
"Even if I did, I'd be talking to bones in the ground"
"Charles you've killed the choir, the boy set himself on fire"
I'm Alive - really the opposite I suppose, but still has odd bits in it
Let's Fall Back in Love:
"Come and share this too, with the rest of our dead family"
Pirates:
"You shot me in the back"
Summer Shakedown:
"Not my little finger please, because I lost it to a rotary fan"
"The eyes of your opponents, may they fall to the floor"
Thinking Drinking Sinking Feeling:
"Are you the one who ends up dead"
Trick Question:
"You will soon be bones in a bag, buried south of our house"
"When I go" - all about death really.
These guys are amazing, both live and on record, but I never realised how these haunting undertones come through the innocent, energetic melodies.
Anyone noticed how most of their songs, while beautiful, contain some reference to death? Or even some kind of grevious injury. Usually in a kind of quirkily poetic, but also melancholy and haunting way, where it sounds so pretty and innocent, but when you look at the lyric is actually kind of disturbing!
Because we're dead - kinda speaks for itself
Come on Youth: "Even if I did, I'd be talking to bones in the ground" "Charles you've killed the choir, the boy set himself on fire"
I'm Alive - really the opposite I suppose, but still has odd bits in it
Let's Fall Back in Love: "Come and share this too, with the rest of our dead family"
Pirates: "You shot me in the back"
Summer Shakedown: "Not my little finger please, because I lost it to a rotary fan" "The eyes of your opponents, may they fall to the floor"
Thinking Drinking Sinking Feeling: "Are you the one who ends up dead"
Trick Question: "You will soon be bones in a bag, buried south of our house"
"When I go" - all about death really.
These guys are amazing, both live and on record, but I never realised how these haunting undertones come through the innocent, energetic melodies.