Stay Young, Go Dancing Lyrics

Lyric discussion by ricdsneak 

Cover art for Stay Young, Go Dancing lyrics by Death Cab for Cutie

Great ending to the album.

This song has an ironic and bittersweet feel for me. Somewhat like falling for someone else when you're in a jaded relationship. You get that good feeling of being attracted to someone, which is magnified because of the state of the current relationship you're in. You're in a high from your infatuation but you're giving up something real, although, unromantic. The high gives a feeling of being wanted, being interesting, being young.

Although her song gives a renewed feeling, there is still an impending winter which the writer looks to evade or deny. "'Cause when she sings I hear a symphony And I'm swallowed in sound as it echoes through me I'm renewed, oh how I feel like Though autumn(/winter)'s advancing, we'll stay young, go dancing"

It also speaks of her voice/song saving him from the belly of the beast, and from being down and from a thousand rainy days. I think the writer speaks of the girl as someone who breaks his routine and gives a new perspective on a bleak and cyclic routine.