Stanne also sometimes throws out vague and probably intentionally-misleading interpretations of his own songs (at least, I have often thought so). That's not to say that that's not what the song is about, but I've always read it differently.
I think that this song is about growing up. Not a typical DT theme, but it fits. As undeveloped children, we are full of love, creativity, and innocence. When we grow into the adult world, those things become childish and our adult pursuits become practical things and lusty things. It's pretty obvious which lyrics fit this theme. In wanting to be adults (as teenagers do), we are "lured into hiding out of sight", suppressing our childish creativity and dreams in favor of sex ("willed to find strangers in the wickedest state").
I think the line "fiery changeling" cements it. Really, how is that not about a young person in the hormonal fury of moving from child to adult?
Stanne also sometimes throws out vague and probably intentionally-misleading interpretations of his own songs (at least, I have often thought so). That's not to say that that's not what the song is about, but I've always read it differently.
I think that this song is about growing up. Not a typical DT theme, but it fits. As undeveloped children, we are full of love, creativity, and innocence. When we grow into the adult world, those things become childish and our adult pursuits become practical things and lusty things. It's pretty obvious which lyrics fit this theme. In wanting to be adults (as teenagers do), we are "lured into hiding out of sight", suppressing our childish creativity and dreams in favor of sex ("willed to find strangers in the wickedest state").
I think the line "fiery changeling" cements it. Really, how is that not about a young person in the hormonal fury of moving from child to adult?