Lyric discussion by Drewhm 

Cover art for Swansea lyrics by Joanna Newsom

I get the story of these two young friends in their hometown with it's toad-ugly houses and traintrack out-of-town sharing a last night together before they go off into the rest of their lives. When life is really just the struggle for the next thing you're going to feed your face with (chew-chew, choo-choo!) out in the wild blue yonder of adulthood until you run your body down, they're kind of making a pact or something to drive on and...do something? And of course the town and area where you grow up always turns into a ghostown for you... or you become the walkinghost. either way, nostalgia