It seems pretty obviously about divorce. "Taken out with the trash," "take the ring," "broken dreams"....it's clearly about a breakup, and the repeated ring references support it being about marriage. I think Future Islands' lyrics are somewhat poetically encoded but they're never nonsense.
It seems pretty obviously about divorce. "Taken out with the trash," "take the ring," "broken dreams"....it's clearly about a breakup, and the repeated ring references support it being about marriage. I think Future Islands' lyrics are somewhat poetically encoded but they're never nonsense.