"It was Don Delillo, whiskey neat,
And a blinking midnight clock
Speakers on a TV stand
Just a turntable to watch
Only smoke came out our mouths
On all those hooded sweatshirt walks
We were a stroke of luck
We were a gold mine, they gutted us
And from the sidelines you'd see me run
Until I'm out of breath
Living the good life, I left for dead
The sorrowful Midwest
Well I did my best...
To keep my head
It was grass stain jeans and incompletes
And a girl from class to touch
But you think about yourself too much
And you ruin who you love
Well all these claims at consciousness
My stray dog freedom
Let's have a nice clean cut
Like a bag we buy and divy up
And from the sidelines I see you run
Until you're out of breath
And all those white lines that sped us up
We hurried to our death
Well I lagged behind...
So you got ahead"
I believe that this song is about Connor Oberst's drug addiction. Although I have never dealt with drug addiction (unless you count caffeine) the song resonates with me because I think that the lyrics are really deep and I find it very interesting when artists talk so bluntly about things such as addiction. Lyrics like "all those white lines that sped us up...we hurried to our death...well i lagged behind...so you got ahead" leads me to believe that these lyrics mean that Connor stop doing Cocaine and managed to stop himself from dying, but his friend kept doing Cocaine and got closer and closer to dying. I am particularly fond of the line: "We were a gold mine, they gutted us." It is a very poetic line and probably means that "they" had a lot of potential when growing up, but somehow they lost all of that potential. Very good song Hjelmgren, download it now.
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