The Beginning of the End

It seems like there are millions of songs documenting the end of romantic relationships. My current favorite (if you can call something on this topic a favorite...it's like calling Schindler's List an "enjoyable" movie): Talking in Code-Margot and the Nuclear So and So's.

To get a better picture, scope one of the saddest lines in the song..."And I'm sleeping alone/in a house I don't own."

I feel like this line incapsulates the entire song because of its portrayal of both a figurative and physical desolation. Not only does the narrator of the song feel the loneliness of losing the one they love emotionally and mentally, the once loved object of affection literally isn't there.

To make matters worse, the outlook for the speaker doesn't look good: he/she's renting!

The song goes out on a repeat of a line that says it all..."Baby, we're long gone/Yeah, we're long gone."

Although this tune by a band that hasn't put out nearly enough material for this lady (points to self) doesn't give us a lot of detail how this relationship came to its ruin, the listener still gets a vivid picture of the fact that things are falling apart and have been for a while.

As someone who has tried and failed at writing poetry and songs, it's too bad that the songwriting laypeople of the world seem to put up with the stagnancy of a relationship until it's too late. In a sad way, we're also lucky. Margot and the Nuclear So and Sos have already painted a blurred yet vivid portrait of a failed relationship, so we don't have to.



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