The narrator lays out everything that holds meaning from their relationship and accidentally builds a sort of memorial out of it.
"Found notes
Camping supplies
A book you bought in the desert
“Identifying Wildflowers”
Pictures from vacations
From parties
Kitschy gifts we bought from rest stops
On that road trip out West
Objects
Everything itself
And then memory"
The book she used to identify the flowers on the road in SCENES. The kitsch they both collect from desert rest stops in Stay Happy There.
"Where we were, where I was, where I thought we’d end up
In this house or on the highway
Driving somewhere near Christmas
In the desert or anywhere else"
More references.
The narrator puts it all into boxes and eventually moves out. Some of them end up on the side of the road, some in the attic, as they push & pull him through the history of their relationship and maybe even to the storm in HUDSONVILLE & the 1981 parts of SCENES.
Powerful closer.
The narrator lays out everything that holds meaning from their relationship and accidentally builds a sort of memorial out of it.
"Found notes Camping supplies A book you bought in the desert “Identifying Wildflowers” Pictures from vacations From parties Kitschy gifts we bought from rest stops On that road trip out West Objects Everything itself And then memory" The book she used to identify the flowers on the road in SCENES. The kitsch they both collect from desert rest stops in Stay Happy There.
"Where we were, where I was, where I thought we’d end up In this house or on the highway Driving somewhere near Christmas In the desert or anywhere else" More references.
The narrator puts it all into boxes and eventually moves out. Some of them end up on the side of the road, some in the attic, as they push & pull him through the history of their relationship and maybe even to the storm in HUDSONVILLE & the 1981 parts of SCENES.
Very powerful song.