We All Die Young Lyrics

Lyric discussion by cbingham 

Cover art for We All Die Young lyrics by Decemberists, The

Although this song doesn't actually mention suicide, it still seems to contradict what Colin said in "Anti-Summersong," where he said that there'd be no more "sing-along suicide songs." This is definitely a sing-along song: even kids are singing along (yes, those are kids doing the response in this call-and-response song) and the thing that they are singing is depressing. I guess you could say this song is Colin's way of saying "We said that there'd be no more sing-along SUICIDE songs. We didn't say that there'd be no more sing-along songs with depressing lyrics."