No comments! I'm so sad :( I freakin' love this one. So different from Okkervil River's other closers.
That constant sense of threat that pervades the album finally unravels here in a gorgeous confrontation with mortality and the raw fear of death. It's just beautifully done. Stronger than the fear of the absence of life or the self is the fear of facing that moment, as we'll all have to, entirely alone. When each of us makes that leap, no one, no matter how much we love them, will be making it with us.
I think there's an environmentalist theme to this too - glaciers melting, erratic weather patterns, the sea brimming over and flooding the land. No one wants to be there when it's time for the climate catastrophe to wipe us all out, but there's the sense that it's too late to stop that from happening, and we'll be lucky to die before it does. Depressing, haunting, absolutely not optimistic, and beautiful.
No comments! I'm so sad :( I freakin' love this one. So different from Okkervil River's other closers. That constant sense of threat that pervades the album finally unravels here in a gorgeous confrontation with mortality and the raw fear of death. It's just beautifully done. Stronger than the fear of the absence of life or the self is the fear of facing that moment, as we'll all have to, entirely alone. When each of us makes that leap, no one, no matter how much we love them, will be making it with us. I think there's an environmentalist theme to this too - glaciers melting, erratic weather patterns, the sea brimming over and flooding the land. No one wants to be there when it's time for the climate catastrophe to wipe us all out, but there's the sense that it's too late to stop that from happening, and we'll be lucky to die before it does. Depressing, haunting, absolutely not optimistic, and beautiful.