Sad in a way that no other song on Tallahassee is sad. Easily the saddest of the entire Alpha series.
In other sad Alpha songs, like No Children, Alpha Rats Nest and Old College Try, there is at least a certain amount of energy; they're fighting and hateful, but in that hate there is at least a certain energy, albeit a dark energy.
Here, there is nothing but the silent, drunken, muted misery of bitter nostalgia. Lost opportunities. Failed promise. Knowing that there was never any other way it could have gone, and so you did it anyway.
Lots of relationships end in ugliness and hate, but at least there is the ability to remember when you once loved each other, that there was HOPE and you chased that hope until the road ran out.
Here, there is nothing but the realization that you've been a couple of corpses since the day you tied the knot. There was never any hope. And that is far worse than simple failure.
Sad in a way that no other song on Tallahassee is sad. Easily the saddest of the entire Alpha series.
In other sad Alpha songs, like No Children, Alpha Rats Nest and Old College Try, there is at least a certain amount of energy; they're fighting and hateful, but in that hate there is at least a certain energy, albeit a dark energy.
Here, there is nothing but the silent, drunken, muted misery of bitter nostalgia. Lost opportunities. Failed promise. Knowing that there was never any other way it could have gone, and so you did it anyway.
Lots of relationships end in ugliness and hate, but at least there is the ability to remember when you once loved each other, that there was HOPE and you chased that hope until the road ran out.
Here, there is nothing but the realization that you've been a couple of corpses since the day you tied the knot. There was never any hope. And that is far worse than simple failure.