Relationship kissoff song thread

[Chan790]

43. He pretty much concedes by "it was vile" that he's the scumbag.

The album, like most of their albums, is a conceptual album telling a loose story.

In this case the entire album begins and ends on the same note so that it can be played as a continuous unbroken loop. It's a loop of the cycle of failed relationships meant to coincide with the passage of approximately a year. That's why the album begins with the lines "So this is the New Year/and I don't feel any different." It's also why the middle tracks coincide with summer themes and progress into the "fall wedding" narrative of Death of an Interior Decorator and the winter/death/loss themes of We Looked like Giants and A Lack of Color. I'm digressing a bit. So, if there's any consolation, he knows he's a scumbag and it doesn't get any happier for him. It's a bit karmic. It's one of my favorite albums though. I can picture the "stageplay" (for lack of a better word) of it in my head as I listen to it.

Notably, the next track after Tiny Vessels, Transatlanticism, is a song about insurmountable gaps: of time, of distance, of loss, of regret; of new beginnings for everybody except the narrator. So, it sounds like he has regret about it. He "need(s) you so much closer" but "the distance is further than ever before."

The full album can be found on Youtube: